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Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez; Gonzales, Rafael Dobado; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those critical 150 years when the economic gap between the industrial core and the primary-product-producing periphery widened to such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123574
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497822
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
Jacks, David S.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, and we know this volatility impedes their growth. We also know that commodity price volatility is a key source of those shocks. This paper explores commodity and manufactures prices over the past three centuries to answer three questions: Has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656266
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...
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Isolation and Development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Rosés, Joan R.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labour productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114196
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Did Muhammad Ali Foster Industrialization in Early 19th Century Egypt?
Panza, Laura; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Muhammad Ali, who ruled Egypt between 1805 and 1849, intervened in Egyptian markets in an attempt to foster industrialization, especially between 1812 and 1840. Like a modern marketing board, the state purchased agricultural commodities (cotton, wheat) at low prices and sold them on world...
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Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In his seminal publications between the 1930s and 1960s, Frederick Lane offered three hypotheses regarding the impact of the Voyages of Discovery that have guided debate ever since. First, pepper and other spice prices did not rise in European markets in the century before the 1490s, and thus...
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Flemish maritime ports, Liège port complex and the port of Brussels – Report 2015
Mathys, Claude - 2017
Flemish maritime ports (Antwerp, Ghent, Ostend, Zeebrugge), the Autonomous Port of Liège and the port of Brussels play a major … importance and development of the Flemish maritime ports, the Liège port complex and the port of Brussels for the period 2010 … economic activity in the six ports in 2014-2015 are summarized in the table on the next page. In 2015 the growth of maritime …
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Economic importance of the logistics sector in Belgium
De Doncker, Helga - 2017
This Working Paper assesses the economic importance of the logistics sector in Belgium for the period 2010-2015 on the basis of the data from the annual accounts submitted to the NBB's Central Balance Sheet Office. The logistics sector was defined on the basis of the NACE-Bel nomenclature of...
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