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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269792
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The Lucas Paradox and the quality of institutions: then and now
Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M. - 2008
In the first era of financial globalization (1880-1914), global capital market integration led to substantial net capital movements from rich to poor economies. The historical experience stands in contrast to the contemporary globalization where gross capital mobility is equally high, but did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299133
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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265233
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Trade Synchronisation During Major Economic Crises
Bärenthaler-Sieber, Susanne; Bilek-Steindl, Sandra; … - 2013
In this paper we present a new long-term database on monthly export and import series for 23 economies during 1921-2010 and its first empirical application. Using these data, we analyse the synchronised decline in foreign trade during the recession 2008-09 in a historical perspective. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435348
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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
by early starters has been the norm in economic history, and that the “reversal of fortune” associated with European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318983
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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280801
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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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Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
Beckert, Jens - 2017
Capitalist dynamics is energized in part by imaginaries of future states of the world (Beckert 2016). The paper deals …Kapitalistische Dynamik wird auch von Vorstellungen zukünftiger Zustände der Welt vorangetrieben (Beckert 2016). Der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660291