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Creativity in fashion design in Slovakia: the case study of Bratislava region

Pástor, Rudolf; Parízková, Jana - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper is focused on creativity in the fashion design in Slovakia. The fashion design in Bratislava region was … activities between Slovak fashion designers. In the paper will be presented results from research carried out between Slovak … fashion designers located in Bratislava region. The empirical work that provides the basis for this case study used a case …

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The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, c. 1320 - c. 1420

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013

During the hundred-year period from about 1320 to about 1420, the Florentine woollen cloth industry underwent two closely connected crises. The first crisis was the consequence, direct and indirect, of the ravages of warfare and falling population, afflicting the entire Mediterranean basin and...

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Cluster evolution in mature Industrial cluster. The case of Prato Marshallian ID after the entrance of Chinese firm populations (1945-2011)

Lazzeretti, Luciana; Capone, Francesco - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The aim of the present research is to participate to the recently resurged debate on cluster life cycle theory among scholars of New Evolutionary Geography and Industrial Economics, starting from the seminal contributions of Menzel and Fornhal (2010). Authors pointed out how the very cluster...

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South German Silver, European Textiles, and Venetian Trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: A non-mercantilist approach

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

A recurrent and indeed persistent problem in European economic history – a veritable deus ex machina -- from medieval to modern times, is Europe’s supposed ‘balance of payments’ problem in trade with the ‘East’. This supposed problem has often been couched in Mercantilist overtones:...

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Three Centuries of Luxury Textile Consumption in the Low Countries and England, 1330 - 1570: New Methodologies for Estimating Changes in Real Values

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2008

This study is a much revised and extended version of two previously issued working papers on the production, sale, and consumption of woollen textiles in England and the Low Countries, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. It focuses on the hey-day of the production and international...

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The Anti-Red Shift -- to the Dark Side: Changes in the Colour Patterns and Market Values of Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300 - 1550

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

The Anti-Red Shift -- to the Dark Side: Changes in the Colour Patterns and Market Values of Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300 - 1550 This study documents, though it cannot fully explain, the striking shift in the spectrum of colour patterns in woollen textiles, from those of the Black Death era in...

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Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2008

If mankind’s three basic necessities have always been food, clothing, and shelter, whose production, trade, and consumption have rightly been a primary focus of economists and economic historians for many generations, we may ask this vital question: how do they distinguish between necessities...

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The role of Culture on Self-Employment

MARCEN, MIRIAM - European Regional Science Association - 2013

There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment by exploiting variation in historical...

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Cultural Distance and Gravity Effects among Migrants

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...

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Institutions, Civil Society, Trust and Quality of Life: A Social Capital- And Social Identity-Based Approach. Evidence from the Russian Federation

Sechi, Guido; Tatarko, Alexander; Skilters, Jurgis - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Many scholars, since the early 2000s, advocate for the integration of institutionalist and communitarian views of social capital generation in order to explain civil society dynamics, in particular in countries ? such as former communist states - characterized by transitional processes, with a...

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