regulation has been a frequent source of controversy and investor-state disputes. In order to enhance the factual basis for …

We investigate the costs of transportation regulation using the example of agricultural markets in the United States … until the First World War. We demonstrate that this reflected changes in transportation costs which in turn in the long run … Second World Wars we find considerable disintegration of agricultural markets, ultimately as a consequence of the 1920 …

the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the Second World War. The statistical data is structured in three parts … dealing with consumption, production and trade both at the world level and for a broad sample of countries. The data presented …