So far, apart from Appendini (1972) for 1900, there were no Mexican regional GDP estimates for the period before 1930. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap by presenting new Mexican regional GDP pc estimates for several benchmark years between 1895 and 1930. The paper presents the...

Los negocios familiares son la forma dominante de propiedad empresarial. Sin embargo, apenas existe reflexión crítica sobre metodologías apropiadas para estudiarlos de forma agregada, en una perspectiva de largo plazo, y a reducir este vacío se dirige el presente trabajo. Se propone una...

Desde un punto de vista histórico, la industria del agua embotellada ha pasado de ser un apéndice del negocio balneario a convertirse en una de las actividades más importantes de la industria alimenticia en Europa. Este trabajo persigue dos objetivos básicos. Primero, conocer las diferentes...

In this paper we employ parametric and nonparametric techniques to analyse the effect of the changes registered on regional market potential on the growth of Spanish regions during the period 1860-1930. The study of the Spanish experience during these years conforms a case study that allows...

This paper explores the impact of the mining boom in the biological standard of living and inequality in Rio Tinto, the main copper basin of Spain and one of the largest in the world. We use data height of military recruits in two municipalities: Zalamea Real and Nerva between 1856 and 1935...

This paper offers the history of the Banco Español de Puerto Rico from its creation in 1888 to its liquidation in 1913. The Banco Español was the sole note-issuing institution of the island until 1898, when Puerto Rico was transferred to the United States. The establishment of the Bank was...

The present study offers a new quantitative base to analyze the evolution of exports of agricultural and food products from South America in the complicated period between 1900 and 1938. The data base has been elaborated from the information published by the International Institute of...

En este trabajo se pretende ofrecer una imagen general de las distintas tendencias de la economía institucional. El objetivo es mostrar sus complementariedades, es decir, en qué medida ha ido surgiendo un cuerpo general coherente y relevante para el análisis histórico. Se han seleccionado...

La Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada es la modificación más rotunda en materia de sociedades en España en todo el siglo XX. Su primera ley es de 1953. Y no obstante funcionó con total normalidad y éxito desde 1919, cuando el Reglamento del Registro Mercantil regularizó su inscripción....

TThis paper explains the process by which the Bank of Spain became a national bank, first by obtaining the monopoly of issue in 1874 and then by extending its sphere of financial action by creating the country's only network of bank branches before 1900. The implementation of a "unified or...