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The West European Woollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

Although this paper is, ostensibly, a macro- and micro-economic historical study of competition in the West European woollen textile ind ustries, in France, the Low Countries, England, Italy, and Iberia (Catalonia and Aragon), and of their related wool and cloth trades, covering all of Europe...

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Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the Later Middle Ages: Changing Trends in Cloth Prices and Markets, 1290 - 1550

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

This paper analyses the major changes in textile products, production costs, prices, and market orientations during the era when the 'draperies' or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries had become increasingly dependent upon northern markets and the German Hanseatic League as the...

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Wool and Wool-Based Textiles in the West European Economy, c.800 - 1500: Innovations and Traditions in Textile Products, Technology, and Industrial Organisation

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

other raw materials; and then the techniques involved in the manufacturing processes: wool-sorting and preparation, combing … finishing processes. The historian must then demonstrate how the wools, dyestuffs, and manufacturing processes differed between …

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Hanseatic Commerce in Textiles from the Low Countries and England during the Later Middle Ages:

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

This paper analyses the major changes in textile products, production costs, prices, and market orientations during the era when the ï¿½draperiesï¿½ or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly dependent upon northern markets and the German...

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The Fight for the Middle: Upgrading, Competition, and Industrial Development in China

Brandt, Loren; Thun, Eric - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2010

When China acceded to WTO in 2001, there were fears that Chinese firms would lose market share in key sectors to foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs). Although aggregate data often indicate a shift in favour of FIEs, indigenous firms in many cases have slowly increased market share and deepened...

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How Important is Human Capital? A Quantitative Theory Assessment of World Income Inequality

Erosa, Andres; Koreshkova, Tatyana; Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

-country differences in total factor productivity (TFP) that explains the variation in per-capita incomes across countries. We build a … quantitative implications of the theory. Our main finding is that human capital accumulation strongly amplifies TFP differences … across countries. In particular, we find an elasticity of output per worker with respect to TFP of 2.8: a 3-fold difference …

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Accounting for China's Growth

Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2010

, there have been doubts about the contribution of TFP improvements to growth. For the period between 1978 and 1998, Young … to the role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocations across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … modest role for labor reallocation and capital deepening, and identify rising TFP in the non-state nonagricultural sector as …

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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001

The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...

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Wages Equal Productivity. Fact or Fiction?

Biesebroeck, Johannes Van - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

the manufacturing sector of three sub-Saharan countries, we evaluate to what extent the two premiums differ for four …

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The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns, c.1290 - c.1330

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1998

The paper's thesis is that the chief causes for the well-known `industrial crisis' of the traditional English textile towns during the period c.1290 - c.1340 was not the emergence of supposedly superior, lower-cost rural competition, as is generally supposed, but rather a far-reaching economic...

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