"Der Verfasser untersucht, ob bestimmte Entwicklungen in der Schweiz während der Krise und bedingt durch die starke Aufwertung des Frankens Anschauungsmaterial für die Beantwortung kontroverser Fragen in der Bundesrepublik bieten. Nur kurz behandelt werden folgende Strategien der...

Are some specialisations more favourable to growth than others? Recent studies contend that countries growth opportunities are enhanced when they specialised in more productive goods, in goods that offer larger possibilities to climb in the quality ladder and in goods that open more channels to...

The paper discusses different attempts to measure economic growth in Europe before the Industrial Revolution. It is argued that the figures published by Angus Maddison probably overestimate growth between 1000 and 1820. Next, a method for simulating long-term patterns of growth is presented, and...

This paper analyzes the economic growth of the departments of Colombiain the period 1975-2000 and in the subperiods 1975-1990 and 1990-2000,emphasizing the impact of the estructure of production on observedperformance. For this purpose, various specifications of the Shift-Sharemethodology are...

This paper explores issues regarding the regional convergence process. We study the per capita income of Andalusia compared with the remaining regions in Spain over period 1965-1995. Using a very simple growth model with public capital as a production factor, we show that infrastructure...