ECON600

Assessment Report
Presentation
Hande Nur Kırmızıkuşak
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 Introduction
• The main purpose of this research over economic history journals is to show related
studies about my Ph.D. research agenda.

• To achieve this goal, I focus on commonly known economic history journals around the
world.

• Recently, there has been a significant literature on wealth and its distribution in economic
history journals.

• There may be two reasons for this.

• The first the use of primary sources is more efficient to understand new models, and the
second is the popularity of Piketty's Capital.
 Variables
• H-index
• Impact Factor
• Research Interest
• The most popular journal about economic history is that The Journal of Economic
History has an H-index 63, and its impact factor is 3.116.
• This journal is published by Cambridge University Press.
• Another important journal that I focuses on is that The Journal of Political
Economy which is published by The University of Chicago Press.
• This journal has an H-index 197, and its impact factor is 11.087.
 Editorial Policy
• All the journals have peer-review process.
• Secondly, these journals impose a word limit between 8.000-12.000.
• The journals published in U.S. mostly expect APA format in manuscripts (The
Journal of Political Economy etc.).
• The journals published in Europe uses Chicago type included footnotes and endnotes
for references (Journal of Economic History and Orient etc.).
• Some journals make data sharing obligatory after submitting the articles (European
Review of Economic History).
• Some journals accept short articles or short research papers in field of economic
history with 4.000 words around (Explorations in Economic History).
• In average, peer-review process of these journals takes 3-5 months, and fully
published papers takes 12-18 months.
• Some of these journals publish 4 issues in a year (JEH), and some of them publish 7
issues in a year (JESHO). For instance, JPE publish 13 issues in a year.
Comprehensibility
Journals Articles
Scandinavian Economic History Review Norkus, Z. et al. (2020). From warfare to welfare states? Social and military spending
in the Baltic States 1918–1940 **
Rozinskaya, N. et al. (2020). Peasants’ inequality and stratification: evidence from
pre-revolutionary Russia **

Financial History Review Li, L. F. (2019). International credit market integration in northwestern Europe in the
1670s **
Voutilainen, M. et al. (2020). Multi-currency regime and markets in early nineteenth-
century Finland **

Journal of Political Economy Golosv, M., Iovino, L. (2021). Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of
Commitment *
Debortoli, D. et al. (2021). Optimal Fiscal Policy without Commitment: Revisiting
Lucas-Stokey *

Journal of the History of Economic Thought Hersch, G. (2021). The Need For Governmental Inefficiency In Plato’s Republic ***
Repapis, C. (2021). W. Stark, J. M. Keynes, And The Mercantilists ***
 Journals
Comprehensibility Articles

European Review of Economic History Cox, G. W., Figueora, V. (2020). Political fragmentation, rural-to-urban migration and urban growth
patterns in western Eurasia 800-1800 *
Ryckbosch, W. (2015). Economic inequality and growth before the industrial revolution: the case of the
low countries (fourteenth to nineteenth centuries). *
Nicolini, E. A., Ramos-Palencia, F. (2021). Comparing income and wealth inequality in pre-industrial
economies: the case of Castile (Spain) in the eighteenth century **
Gabuti, G. (2020). Labor shares and inequality: insights from Italian economic history, 1895–1970 **

The Economics History Review Bengtsson, E. et. al. (2021). Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750 **
Saito, O. (2015). Growth and inequality in the great and little divergence debate: a Japanese perspective
**
Bengtsson, E. et al. (2017). Wealth inequality in Sweden, 1750–1900 **
Rota, M., Weisdorf, J. (2020). Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: evidence from stable
employment in rural areas **
Karagedikli, G., Tunçer, A. C. (2020). House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth-
century Edirne ***
Alfani, G., Ammannati, F. (2017). Long‐term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine
state, c. 1300–1800. **
Enflo, K., Missiaia, A. (2019). Between Malthus and the industrial take-off: regional inequality in
Sweden, take-off: regional inequality in Sweden, 1571–1850 **
The Journal of Economic History Erikson, E., Samila, S. (2018). Networks, Institutions, and Uncertainty: Information Exchange in Early-
Modern Markets *
Bengtsson, E., Walderström, D. (2018). Capital Shares and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Long
Run *

Explorations in Economic History Zwart, P., Soekhradj, P. (2023). Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial
Java **
Tunçer, A. C., Weller, L. (2022). Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced
country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913 *
 Journals Articles

Business History Fernandez-Moya, M., Puig, N. (2020). Shaping the rules of the game:
Spanish capitalism and the publishing industry under dictatorship
(1939-1975) **

Gelderblom, O., Trivelleto, F. (2019). The business history of the

preindustrial world: Towards a comparative historical analysis ***

Journal of the Economics and Social History of the Orient Abacı, Z. D. et al. (2023). Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman
Empire, 1689-1843 ***

Historical Methods Canbakal, H., Filiztekin, A. (2021). Wealth and demography in

Ottoman probate inventories: A database in very long-term
perspective ***

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought Regent, N. (2019). Guicciardini and economic (in)equality *

Revista de Historia Economica Garza, D. C., Krozer, A. (2022). Life On The Edge: Elites, Wealth And
Inequality In Sonora 1871-1910 **
 Why these journals?
• These journals are the top journals in economic history according to
the Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus.

• These journals are also chosen because of high quality articles written
by Nobel Prize economic historians such as Douglass North, Elinor
Ostrom, Paul Milgrom etc.

• Finally, these journals include articles that I presented in tables about

wealth and inequality from a historical perspective.
 Why these articles?
• The articles published in the last five years within these journals focuses on
wealth and inequality with different perspectives.
• Some of them provides a theoretical background about how one should estimate
wealth and inequality for pre-industrial periods.
• A share of these articles gives detailed information about what kind of sources
should be used in estimating wealth and inequality throughout history.
• A proportion of these articles examines wealth and inequality with historical
cases, particularly for the early modern European societies.
• These set of articles discusses that the role of Gini coefficients, Lorenz Curve, and
share of different wealth segments (top 1%, 10%, and %25 and the poorest ones)
in estimating wealth and inequality for different societies.
• Thus, these articles provide a deeper inside to my research agenda for estimating
wealth and inequality of the Ottoman Empire from a long-term perspective.
 Reasons for difficulty
• Three types of difficulty I faced in my research.
• The first difficulty emerges in articles which include a theoretical
background of historical estimates.
• These articles are showed in table above with * sign.
• The second difficulty emerges in understanding the case studies of
different societies because it is difficulty understand the nature of
historical sources of these societies I do not familiar with.
• These articles are showed in table above with ** sign.
• The least difficulty emerges in articles that focus on the wealth
inequality in the Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, the articles based on
economic history thought also include this group with *** sign.
 One Journal

• The Economic History Review is the journal most compatible with my

research agenda.
• This journal publishes articles focused on wealth and inequality for
different societies from a historical perspective.
• Secondly, this journal gives particular importance to case studies
throughout history.
• Thirdly, this journal also includes articles on these issues that studies
Ottoman experiences.
 Original Five Topics

• Political fragmentation, rural-to-urban migration and urban growth

patterns in western Eurasia 800-1800
• Networks, Institutions, and Uncertainty: Information Exchange in
Early-Modern Markets
• Capital Shares and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Long Run
• Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced
country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913
• Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of Commitment
> These topics are original because they try to understand economic
performances with non-economic variables and factors.
 Most Original Article
• “Networks, Institutions, and Uncertainty: Information Exchange in
Early-Modern Markets” published in JEH.
• This is the most original article for me because it seeks to find an
answer for a long-standing question in the literature: Why some
societies have better economic performances than others even before
the industrial revolution?
• More importantly, this article focuses on not only economic variables
but also non-economic factors that affect the economic performances
such as information and its costs.
• The networks of powerful groups or elites cause the divergence in
early modern period.
 Problems Faced

• The most important problem in my seminar research is that there are

not many articles on subjects that I want to focus on.
• Furthermore, the lack of articles appears to be more pronounced in
the Ottoman literature.
• Due to the lack of historical data, the literature has been slow to
progress.
• Particularly, the absence of articles on wealth, inequality and
institutions of Empires similar with the Ottoman Empire such as
Habsburg, Austria, and Spain cause a difficulty in establishing
comparisons among these societies.
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