Why did the country that borrowed the most industrialize first? Earlier research has viewed the explosion of debt in 18th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain's borrowing boom was beneficial. The massive issuance...

Recent work has documented industrial output growth around the poor periphery from 1870 to the present, finding unconditional convergence on the leaders long before the modern BRICS and even before the Asian Tigers. The Philippines was very much part of that catching up. In the decade or so up...

Das Ruhrgebiet ist ein wichtiges Beispiel für regionale Anpassungsprobleme als Folge sektoralen Wandels. Die Untersuchung gliedert sich in drei Teile. Zunächst werden theoretische Ansätze zur Erklärung regionalen und sektoralen Strukturwandels vorgestellt und mit Blick auf die...