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La Creacion de Una Ventaja Competitiva en la Industria Corchera Portuguesa: La Contribucion de un Distrito Industrial
Branco, Amélia; Parejo, Francisco M. - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, GHES - … - 2009
During the second half of the twentieth century, the Spanish cork industry lost its hegemonic position to Portugal in … industrial cork district of Aveiro (Santa Maria da Feira) in the north of Portugal. It was there that the growth of the … the world market of manufactured cork. In this work we intend to demonstrate that one of the most important explanations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742556
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Did Economics Cause World War II?
Gordon, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Historians have long recognized the role of economic resources and organization in determining the outcome of World War II: the Nazi economy lacked the economic resources and organization to oppose the combined might of the U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. A minority view is that the Germans were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084936
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Spanish Merino wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: an industrial transformation in the late-medieval Low Countries
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This article seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the 'nouvelles draperies' chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the...
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Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.
Richardson, Gary; McBride, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated populations and the church promoted the doctrine of...
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Los Depósitos Francos en España, 1914-1930
Nieto, Joseba Lebrancón - In: Investigaciones de Historia Económica (IHE) Journal of … 5 (2009), pp. 11-44
car was imported to Spain or remaining free of those tariffs if the merchandise was sent to another country. The assembly … and selling automobiles in Portugal, North Africa, Italy or Adriatic Europe. …
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Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River - A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve 1895-2000
Granér, Staffan; Rönnbäck, Klas - Ekonomisk Historia, Handelshögskolan - 2011
Because of a growing population and industrialization, total pollution levels in many water-courses around the world have increased considerably for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In the last few decades, however, the trend of increasing water pollution has been turned in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321786
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El comercio agroalimentario español en la segunda globalización, 1951-2011
Clar, Ernesto; Pinilla, Vicente; Serrano, Raúl - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2014
Este trabajo analiza la evolución del comercio agroalimentario español en el período en el que han tenido lugar las más hondas transformaciones de la economía española, la segunda mitad del siglo XX y la primera década del XXI. El artículo estudia la evolución de las exportaciones e...
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"Fortress Europe" in long-term perspective: agricultural protection in the European Community, 1957-2003
Spoerer, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Since its inception, the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been discussed controversely. Data from the OECD and the World Bank show that the protectionist effects of the CAP between the 1960s and the 1980s were larger than those of its national predecessors. Moreover, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540111
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Determinants of Success and Failure in Internationalisation of the Cork Business: a Tale of Two Iberian Family Firms
Branco, Amélia; Parejo, Francisco; Lopes, João Carlos; … - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, GHES - … - 2014
a long run analysis (of more than one century) of two firms which operate in the cork business in Spain and Portugal … – Corticeira Amorim – became, and still is, the leading firm worldwide in the cork industry. A detailed comparison of these two …, as they both ended up becoming the leading firms in the cork business, although at different periods of time. Thirdly …
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El consumo de productos lácteos en España, 1950-2010
Collantes, Fernando - Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria - SEHA - 2012
This paper, a case study of the great transformations undergone by food consumption patterns in Spain since c. 1950 …
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