Raphael Franck

Journal Articles

• Labor Scarcity, Technology Adoption and Innovation: Evidence from the Cholera Pandemics in 19th Century France, Journal of Economic Growth, forthcoming.
• The Impact of Industrialization on Secondary Schooling during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from 19th Century France, Journal of Population Economics 36 (4), 2007-2023, 2023.
• Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization, with Oded Galor, Economic Journal 132 (642), 618-643, 2022.
• The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution, with Theresa Finley & Noel D. Johnson, Journal of Law and Economics 64 (2), 233-267, 2021.
• Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development, with Oded Galor, Journal of Monetary Economics 117, 108-128, 2021.
• What Motivates an Oligarchic Elite to Democratize? Evidence from the Roll Call Vote on the Great Reform Act of 1832, with Toke S. Aidt, Journal of Economic History 79 (3), 773-825, 2019.
• Can Internal Migration Foster the Convergence in Regional Fertility Rates? Evidence from Nineteenth Century France, with Guillaume Daudin & Hillel Rapoport, Economic Journal 129 (620), 1618-1692, 2019.
• Can Public Policies Lower Religiosity? Evidence from School Choice in France, 1878-1902, with Noel D. Johnson, Economic History Review 69 (3), 915-944, 2016.
• The Political Consequences of Income Shocks: Explaining the Consolidation of Democracy in France, Review of Economics and Statistics 98 (1), 57-82, 2016.
• Democratization under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832, with Toke S. Aidt, Econometrica 83 (2), 505-547, 2015.
• Religious Decline in the 20th Century West: Testing Alternative Explanations, with Laurence R. Iannaccone, Public Choice 159 (3), 385-414, 2014.
• From Internal Taxes to National Regulation: Evidence from a French Wine Tax Reform at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, with Noel D. Johnson & John V.C. Nye, Explorations in Economic History 51, 77-93, 2014.
• How to Get the Snowball Rolling and Extend the Franchise: Voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832, with Toke S. Aidt, Public Choice 155 (3), 229-250, 2013.
• Does the Leader’s Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Favoritism, Education and Health in sub-Saharan Africa, with Ilia Rainer, American Political Science Review 106(2), 294-325, 2012.
• Judicial Independence and the Validity of Controverted Elections, American Law and Economics Review 12(2), 394-422, 2010.
• Economic Growth and the Separation of Church and State: the French Case, Economic Inquiry 48 (4), 841-859, 2010.
• Institutional Changes, Wars and Stock Market Risk: Evidence from the Israeli Stock Market from 1945 to 1960, with Miriam Krausz, Cliometrica 3 (2), 141-164, 2009.
• Judicial Independence under a Divided Polity: A Study of the Rulings of the French Constitutional Court, 1959-2006, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 25 (1), 262-282, 2009.
• Why Separate Monetary Policy from Banking Supervision?, with Miriam Krausz, Journal of Comparative Economics 36 (3), 388-411, 2008.
• Campaign Resources and Electoral Success: Evidence from the 2002 French Parliamentary Elections, with Gil Epstein, Public Choice 131 (3-4), 469-489, 2007.
• Forecasting Exchange Rates: A Robust Regression Approach, with Arie Preminger, International Journal of Forecasting 23, 71-84, 2007.
• Liquidity Risk and Bank Portfolio Allocation, with Miriam Krausz, International Review of Economics and Finance 16 (1), 60-77, 2007.
• Public Safety and the Moral Dilemma in the Defence against Terror, with Arye L. Hillman & Miriam Krausz, Defence and Peace Economics 16 (5), 347-364, 2005.

Guest editor

• Guest editor of a Symposium on the Political Economy of the French Referendum on the European Constitution, European Journal of Political Economy 21 (4), 2005.
• Why did a Majority of French Voters Reject the European Constitution?, European Journal of Political Economy 21 (4), 1071-1076, 2005.

Books

• Peaceful and Violent Origins of Voting Rights. A Political Economy Analysis of the Great Reform Act of 1832, with Toke S. Aidt, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, forthcoming 2025.
• Currency Crises: A Theoretical and Empirical Perspective, with André Fourçans, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2003.