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From regional to intercontinental trade : the successive European trade empires from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century in Asia

Bensassi, Sami - 2010

For a very long time, the areas available for continuous long-distance trade were limited to territories the size of Braudel's Mediterranée (1949). Whatever the commercial organizations (merchants in the Roman or the Fatimid Empires, the Hanseatic League, the Florentine Companies), their trade...

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Assessing market (dis)integration in early modern China and Europe

Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Eberhardt, Markus; Liang, Yusheng; … - 2015

This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of … from Western Europe we conclude that in terms of market integration the Great Divergence was well under way decades before …

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Trade networks and colonial trade spillovers

Berthou, Antoine; Ehrhart, Hélène - 2014

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Wars and markets : how bond values reflect World War II

Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - 1999

Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in government bond prices. This holds, in particular, for...

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Property rights and the first great divergence : Europe 1500-1800

Karayalçin, Cem - 2015

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European integration deepening and widening : implications for Asia

Langhammer, Rolf J. - 1998

), trade resistance factors on the EU import side can be explained mainly by slow growth in Europe in the first half of the … nineties rather than by SMP-induced trade barriers. Concerning integration widening toward Central and Eastern Europe (CEE … of the Europe Agreements. As trade overlaps between Asian and CEE supply on EU markets are low, the trade diversion fear …

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