Academic articleS

Publications in academic journals


Ø "Term structure of equity risk premia in rough terrain: 150 years of the French stock market." Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance forthcoming 2024 with G. Prat.


Ø "Prédire à la fois les Trente Glorieuses et une stagnation économique après 2000, Jean Fourastié 1949." Revue Française d'Economie XXXVIII 2024 pp. 31-59 avec E. Gray.


Ø "Georges d'Avenel. An Economic Historian ahead of his Time." European Journal of  the History of Economic Thought 30(4) 2023  pp. 606-634 with A. Alcouffe.


Ø "Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits." PLoS ONE, 18(1): e0279864, 2023 with V. Gay. Appendix showing the prevalence of the nuclear family in Western Europe before year 1000.

Ø  The European Marriage Pattern and the Sensitivity of Female Age at Marriage to Economic Context. Montesquieu-Volvestre, 1660-1789, Cliometrica, 17.2, 2023, pp. 187-231 (lead article) with R. Tallec.

Ø  Say's Second Visit to Britain: A Career Turning Point, History of Political Economy,  54.3, 2022, pp. 393-414 with A. Alcouffe. 

Ø  Did French Stock Markets Support Firms of the Second Industrial Revolution? with E. Bonhoure, Business History, 63.6, 2021, pp. 914-943 . 

Ø Technical Progress and Structural Change in Fourastié's Theory of Development. with A. Alcouffe, History of Political Economy, 52.1, 2020, pp. 101–133.

Ø The Present-Value Relation over Six Centuries: the Case of the Bazacle Company with W. N. Goetzmann and S. Pouget, Journal of Financial Economics, 132.1, 2019, pp. 248-265.

Ø Testing Legal Origins Theory within France: Customary Laws versus Roman Code, Journal of Comparative Economics, 47.1., 2019, pp. 1-30 (lead article, Montias prize for the best article published over the past two years).

Ø Les compagnies de moulins en Occitanie : émergence et gouvernance de sociétés par actions multiséculaires, Revue d’Economie Financière, 130, 2018, pp. 55-69 avec S. Pouget et W. Goetzmann.

Ø What is a Market Crash?, Economic History Review, 71.2, 2018, pp. 480-505.

Ø Stocks and Bonds during the Gold Standard, Economics Letters, 159, 2017, pp. 119-122 with A. Rezaee.

Ø Quelle gouvernance pour le financement immobilier ? le cas du Crédit Foncier de France au 19ème siècle., Revue d'Economie Politique, 126.4, 2016, pp. 593-616.

Ø Book review of R. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance., Journal of Economics, 117.2, 2016, pp. 185-187.

Ø Comment donner une valeur à l'immobilier ?, Histoire & Mesure, 31.1, 2016, pp. 43-59.

Ø The French Paradox: a Financial Crisis during the Golden Age of the 1960s, Business History, 56.3, 2014, pp. 391-413 avec B. Blancheton et H. Bonin. 

Ø Why did French Savers buy Foreign Assets before1914? A Decomposition of the Benefits from Diversification, Louvain Economic Review, 79.3, 2013, pp. 71-89.

Ø Wars, inflation and stock market returns in France, 1870-1945., Financial History Review, 19.3, 2012, pp. 337-361.

Ø Les phénomènes de« bulle » sur les actions françaises., Entreprises et Histoire, 67, 2012, pp. 10-23.

Ø The Great Divergence: French Equity Premium is Lowerand Riskier since WWI., Bankers, Markets & Investors, 118, 2012, p. 9-17 with S. Tobelem.

Ø La volatilité des actions françaises sur le long terme., Revue Economique, 63.3, 2012, pp. 569-580.

Ø Les grands travaux du plan Freycinet : de la subvention à la dépression ?, Entreprises et Histoire, 69, 2012, pp. 8-26.

Ø Les krachs boursiers en France depuis 1854., Revue Economique, 61.3, 2010, p. 421-430

Ø A Challenge to the Triumphant Optimists, A Blue Chips Index for the Paris Stock Exchange (1854-2007)., Financial History Review, 27.2, 2010, p. 141-183 with P-C. Hautcoeur.