This paper offers an overview of the modern Economic History of an interior Spanish province (Valladolid). It investigates the reasons of the economic retardation of this central region in contrast with the periphery of the country. It also presents the unknown attempts of the local business...

In this paper we analyze the empirical developments concerning the estimation of the nominal wage equation proposed in the context of the New Economic Geography models. Results from the empirical works carried out for a sample of countries and for the European Union confirm the theoretical...

The mutualist movement of the industrial era took root in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe, but also in Latin America, from midway through the XIX century. The Spanish Associations Act of 1887 treated the benefit and mutual, or friendly societies as one more method of association. The first...

In a country with a low endowment of capital resources, like Spain, should be very important to know the regional financial flows to explain the growth at that level. In this work, we try to study the effects of the regional distribution of deposits and credits in the Spanish financial system...

Trade flows, mobility of productive factors, development of the transport system and a common export base have been the criteria used when analyzing the processes of economic organization of the territory from a historical perspective. The purpose of this paper is to add a new explanatory...

This research deals with universities in Spain in the last decades of the twentieth century, after which there was a democratization of access to these studies and an increase in female enrollment. Obviously, there was a link between the university and the family income of students, although it...

Russia decided to invade Chechnya at the end of 1991 and provoked an appalling situation in the Caucasian region. This article deals with the history of those two Russian invasions of Chechnya --from their origin until the current situation-- through the Russian film industry of this conflict....

Book review of Attinà, F.; Rossi, R. (2004): "The European Union Neighbourhood Policy", Centro Jean Monnet "Euro-Med", Departamento de Estudios Políticos. Università di Catania

The presentation and analysis of a cost of living index and of different wage indices for the city of Madrid, covering the period 1680-1800 is the essential aim of this article. The accounts books of several charitable institutions have been the basic source of information for this research. The...

This working paper central purpose is to study the magnitude and the evolution of mortality in the Guadalajara province between 1700 and 1865. The parish registers of baptisms and deaths in a sample of 25 local entities are the main source of data. The principal finding is the slightly downward...