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Futures past: Economic forecasting in the 20th and 21st century
Fritsche, Ulrich (contributor); Köster, Roman (contributor) - 2020
forecasting has not lost its importance. Futures Past considers the history and present state of economic forecasting, giving a … societies, thereby making a broader claim for greater interdisciplinary cooperation in the history of economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321707
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Periferie europee: Istituzioni sociali, politiche, luoghi
Locatelli, Andrea (contributor); Besana, Claudio (contributor) - 2021
In the rich Western societies, the several crises at the beginning of this century focus on the worsening of old economic and social problems, which have taken on new importance in the cities undergoing a rapid transformation because of the globalization and the new structures of the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321714
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Commerce, finance and statecraft: Histories of England, 1600-1780
Dew, Ben - 2018
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history … history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in … followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321725
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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2013
We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293919
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Forecasting ECB monetary policy: accuracy is (still) a matter of geography
Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006
Monetary policy in the euro area is conducted within a multi-country, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual context involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand and to anticipate monetary policy by the ECB? Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299102
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From commodity booms to economic miracles: Why Southeast Asian industry lagged behind
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
Except for the Philippines between 1896 and 1939, Southeast Asia was never part of the century-long East Asian industrial catching up until after World War II. Before the 1950s, Southeast Asian manufacturing hardly grew at all: while commodity export processing did grow fast, import-competing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335583
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China's role in the history of globalization
Spree, Reinhard - 2015
In my view, globalization is a process that has taken place episodically since approximately the beginning of the 16th century. Previously, there were a number of attemps at globalization, which however failed to attain the precondition of regular commercial and communicative relationships among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374990
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Chicken or egg? Transport and urban development in Berlin
Moeller, Kristoffer; Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013
Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397476
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Past dominations, current informal institutions and the Italian regional economic performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - 2013
for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397522
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Historical Legacy and Policy Effectiveness: the Long-Term Influence of pre-Unification Borders in Italy
de Blasio, Guido; D'Adda, Giovanna - 2014
This paper investigates the interplay between cultural traditions and policy effectiveness. It explores the differential impact of a large development program (Cassa per il Mezzogiorno), implemented for four decades, starting in the 1950s, to stimulate convergence between Italy's South and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400095