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KARINE VAN DER BEEK |
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Karine van der Beek is a senior lecturer at the economics
department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a research affiliate at the Centre of
Economic Policy Research (CEPR) until 2022. She
specializes in European economic history and long-run economic growth with a
specific interest in the relationship between human capital, financial
markets, political institutions and technological change. Karine holds a PhD
from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a post-doc fellow at EUI
and at UPF as part of the CEPR Research Training Network, ‘Unifying the
European Experience’ in the years 2006-7. Her current research examines the
effect of enclosures in England in 1750-1830 on financial markets and
bankruptcies. In her other studies she applies econometric and ML tolls to
uncover the role played by various skills and occupations in Britain’s
Industrial Revolution. |
Publications and Working Papers
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2026. “Land Reforms in Developing Financial Markets:
Lessons from England's Land Enclosures 1750-1830”, SSRN
WPS 6633338 (with Tomer Ifergane, Walker Ray, and Lior Farbman) Abstract: Land titling is expected to
expand credit by making land pledgeable, but isolating this collateral
channel empirically is difficult. We utilize English enclosures from
1750-1830 as a laboratory: privatization of "common waste" created
newly mortgageable land, in contrast with "open-field" enclosures
which largely reorganized already titled arable land. A stylized model with
endogenous default predicts that an influx of newly pledgeable waste land
lowers equilibrium collateral requirements, generating a local credit
expansion but an increase in bankruptcies. Using a newly digitized universe
of personal bankruptcies from the London Gazette, we find that the enclosure
of common waste led to higher bankruptcies, particularly in industrial areas
and during downturns. Bankruptcies are concentrated among industrial
occupations with tight cash-flow cycles. In contrast, enclosures of open
field reduce bankruptcies. The results clarify a key collateral channel
through which property reforms can deepen credit while increasing defaults. |
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2022. “The Wheels
of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s
Industrialization” The Economic Journal, 1–33
https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab102. (With Joel Mokyr and Assaf
Sarid). |
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2020. Expectations:
Theory and Applications from Historical Perspectives. Springer
Studies in the History of Economic Thought. (Arie Arnon, Warren Young &
Karine van der Beek Eds.). 2017. "Flexible Supply of apprenticeship in the
British Industrial Revolution" Journal of Economic
History 77(1): (With Nadav Ben-Zeev and Joel Mokyr). (pdf_draft) |
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2016. "Skill
Choice and skill complementarity in Eighteenth century England: 1710-1770”. Explorations
in Economic History 59(1): 94-113. (With Naomi Feldman). (pdf_draft) short assay at the Israel Science Foundation website (in Hebrew) |
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2015. "Market
Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London",
Economic History Review 68(4):
1177–1202. (With Moshe Justman). (pdf draft) |
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2014. "England's
eighteenth century demand for high-quality workmanship: Evidence from
apprenticeship, 1710-1770",
in Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling and John V.C. Nye (eds.), Institutions, Innovation,
and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development, a
festschrift volume in the honor of Prof. Joel Mokyr, Princeton University
Press, pp. 268-274. Robert Margo's Review at EH.Net |
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2010. "The
Effect of Political Fragmentation on Investments: A Case Study of Watermill
Construction in Medieval Ponthieu, France”.
Explorations in Economic History 47: 369-380. |
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2010. "Political fragmentation and investment
decisions: the milling industry in feudal France (1150-1250)".
Economic History Review 63(3): 664-687. |
Other Publications
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2023.
"Economic Aspects of Urban Greenness Along a
Dryland Rainfall Gradient: a Time-Series Analysis". Urban
Forestry & Urban Greening Available
online 24 March 2023, 127915. (with: Roni
Bluestein-Livnon, Tal Svoray, and, Michael Dorman. |
Work in Progress
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"The human capital
behind engine adoption: the determinants of engine location in eighteenth
century England" “The Spatial distribution
of skills in eighteenth century England: new estimates using evidence on
apprenticeship”. "Was steam engine
technology skill-biased? The short-run effects of steam engine development on
demand for skills in eighteenth century England" |
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Introductory
Econometrics (142.1.1081) |
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Topics in Economic History
(142.1.1091) |
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Real
life economics - workshop (142.1.0180) |
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Institutional Economics for
Graduates (142.2.18) |
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Explaining the British
Industrial Revolution 142.2.93) |