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The medieval Origins of Capitalism in the Netherlands
van Bavel, Bas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
so early here specifically; how markets were organised as institutions and how they functioned. It will be demonstrated … that the markets here had a favourable organisation, with low transaction costs, a high level of integration of the markets … and a large degree of certainty for parties entering these markets. Nevertheless, the consequences of the rise of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107981
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Early Proto-industrialization in the Low Countries? The Importance and Nature of Market-oriented Non-agricultural Activities on the Countryside in Flanders and Holland
van Bavel, Bas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
consumption, which had always existed in the countryside, in some places rural industries aimed at non-local markets developed as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259839
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The English cotton spinning industry, 1780–1840, as revealed in the columns of the London Gazette
Solar, Peter M; Lyons, John S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We investigate the early development of English cotton spinning by analyzing about 700 bankruptcies and 1300 dissolutions of partnership reported in the London Gazette, 1770–1840. The data show two temporal cycles, peaking in the early to mid-1800s and in the later 1820s, near the ends of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992046
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The 'New Institutional Economics' and the Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: the Textile Trades, Warfare, and Transaction Costs
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
–plant firms with their use of bills-of-exchange; the Bautier-Verlinden model on the ‘industrialization of 14th century Italy’; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835820
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A moneylender in Venice: Costantino Bogdano ‘da Patrasso’, c. 1800-44
Pepelasis, Ioanna Sapfo; Tzavara, Angeliki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Research on the practices of the moneylender, a permanent yet shadowy fixture of society, has focused on England in the early modern period. This paper, however, examines the business operations of Costantino Bogdano, a Greek moneylender active in Venice (c. 1800-44). At a time of transition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112971
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Review of Huerta de Soto´s `Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles´
van den Hauwe, Ludwig - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article reviews the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto´s book `Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos´ which first appeared in Spain in 1998.
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The Paris Bourse and the international capital flows before 1914
Quennouëlle-Corre, Laure - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This study wanted to pinpoint the different securities transactions’ channels in France, which are quite specific compared to other countries.As a matter of fact, the Paris Bourse could not be well explained without the free market and the deposit banks'transactions. This organisation leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835675
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The Transatlantic Economy Dollar vs Euro relations amid the Global Financial Crisis
Avellaneda, Maria Belen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The present study intends to describe and analyze recent trends in foreign exchange markets, specifically the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565966
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Una nota su Il sacco del Nord di Luca Ricolfi
Tattara, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article discusses some inconsistencies of the recent book by L. Ricolfi "il sacco del Nord".
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835361
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How polycentric is a monocentric city? The role of agglomeration economies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Wendland, Nicolai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Can the demise of the monocentric economy across cities during the 20th century be explained by decreasing transport costs to the city center or are other fundamental forces at work? Taking a hybrid perspective of classical bid-rent theory and a world where clustering of economic activity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560482