The objective of this study is to analyse the factors determining the process of internationalisation of the Spanish agrifood industry from a long-term perspective. The paper concentrates on the empirical verification of the existence of a home market effect and on the effects on trade flows of...

In this work, we highlight the “lessons from history” that can be drawn from a historical discussion and understanding of the past and present of resource-rich developing economies to obtain conditions for successful natural resources-based development. The conceptual core of our answer to...

The analysis of population levels in Latin America plays an important role in the regional historiography. The estimated series appeared until now offers huge discrepancies, therefore, we believe essential to provide homogeneous series for the 19th and the 20th centuries. In our work we shed new...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it quantifies and analyzes the demographic evolution of the province of Guadalajara during the Early Modern Age and the first decades of the Modern Age. Second, it estimates the cereal production in two specific areas, La Campiña and La Sierra, between...

This paper examines the determinants of citation success among authors who have published on the economic and business history of Spain. It departs from the dominant cross section approach to the quantitative assessment of citation success by enabling a 15-year time series analysis of...

Entre el siglo XVI y el XVIII la esclavitud fue adquiriendo en el Imperio español una indudable importancia económica, tanto por el creciente peso de la mano de obra esclava en el Nuevo Mundo, como por la relevancia política, económica y administrativa de los sucesivos asientos. Sin embargo,...

This article tries to shed light on a macroeconomic issue from a microeconomic or business perspective. The problem is the Andalusian backwardness in comparison to more advantaged regions of Spain and the subsequent negative effects it had on the population’s standard of living. The...

Between the end of the Enlightenment and the incipient liberalism, Blanco White was one of the most important Spanish intellectuals of the first half of the nineteenth century. His exile in England (1810)1841) and his mastery of the English language enabled him to relate to some of the great...

El trabajo analiza las crisis demográficas españolas desde una perspectiva de largo plazo que cubre el Antiguo Régimen y la edad contemporánea. Para el Antiguo Régimen, se consideran las crisis de mortalidad: alzas bruscas de las defunciones que conducían a fuertes descensos de la...

El presente trabajo analiza el proceso de globalización que en la última década experimentaron los productos acuícolas, más concretamente el mejillón. Desde los años setenta España se ha configurado tradicionalmente como uno de los principales países productores y exportadores de este...