Over the last six decades, economic developments in the three countries that were defeated in World War II look strikingly similar. First came rapid reconstruction. Then followed the economic miracles of the Golden Age. The years that went from the first oil shock to the mid-1990s still saw...

The three articles included in this issue of the journal (along with the usual book reviews and received books sections) are heterogeneous with regards both to the topics and methods. They once again show how wide and differentiated the post-crisis economic debate is

Con questo numero, Moneta e Credito prosegue la sua nuova vita dopo l'interruzione connessa al passaggio di proprietà dalla Banca Nazionale del Lavoro all'Associazione Paolo Sylos Labini. Tale interruzione è stata colmata con i numeri speciali per il 2008 e per il 2009 usciti negli ultimi mesi...

Despite its central importance in the optimal currency area literature, little is known about when and why US regional business cycles became more synchronized. We shed light on these issues by (re)constructing a monthly index of retail sales for the 12 US Federal Reserve districts from 1919 to...

The paper deals with the development of big business in Germany during the 20th century. It shows the first results of the German team of the research project ?The Performance of European Business in the 20th Century?. The paper analyses how the structure of big business changed: it shows the...