Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts

Qian Lu, John Joseph Wallis

NBER Working Paper No. 21572
Issued in September 2015

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We thank Howard Bodenhorn, Eric Hilt, Ethan Kaplan, Naomi Lamoreaux, Peter Murrell, William Novak, James Snyder, Richard Sylla, Robert Wright, and seminar participants at the University of Maryland and the 2013 Cliometric Society meeting for their comments and suggestions on an earlier related paper. Qian Lu thanks Yiqing Xu and the staffs at the Massachusetts State Library and Massachusetts State Archives. Special thanks to Alix Quan of Massachusetts State Library for providing valuable data. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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