This article seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why … wools allowed at least some of them to escape the current crisis afflicting the traditional ‘old draperies’, and indeed to … sixteenth centuries. Although the merino have been by far the world’s finest wools, since at least the seventeenth century …

wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the … nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the … by far the world’s finest wools, since at least the seventeenth century, English wools had enjoyed that supremacy in the …

We quantify the economic impact of a potential secession of Catalonia from Spain. Using a novel dataset of trade flows …

Spain. Differences in endowments play an important role to determine the volume of intra-industry trade rather than the …

capita and with OECD countries that have a more similar level of income to that of Spain. Differences in endowments play an …

December 1905. This decision left Spain and Italy without a bilateral trade treaty for an entire decade. In the literature …

This paper seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why … wools allowed at least some of them to escape the current crisis afflicting the traditional 'old draperies', and indeed to … sixteenth centuries. Although the merino have been by far the world's finest wools, since at least the seventeenth century …