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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. |
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“Land Reform and Access to Credit: The
Response of Bankruptcies to Land Enclosures in England 1750-1830” (with Tomer Ifergane, Walker Ray, and Lior
Farbman) Abstract:
Land privatization in developing economies holds the promise of better
efficiency in resource allocation. Moreover, since land is a pledgeable asset
that can serve as collateral to secure loans, privatization can also help
overcome financial frictions, obtain access to credit, and borrow at lower
rates. Less is, however, known about the potential effects of land
privatization on incumbent borrowers in the presence of financial market
inefficiencies. This paper offers a simple model of default with capped loan
rates and (time-varying) pledgeable collateral where firms differ in their
productivity and their costs to post collateral. It studies the effect land
privatization in the context of the major process of land enclosure that took
place in England during its industrialization, exploiting a novel dataset on
private bankruptcies in the English counties between 1750 and 1830. Our
results indicate the existence of a negative short run effect and show that
it intensifies when privatization takes place during economic downturns, or
when the privatized land is not agricultural. |
Publications and Working Papers
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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) |