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Explaining contract choice: vertical co-ordination, sharecropping, and wine, France 1850-1950
Carmona, Juan; Simpson, James - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2010
Recent literature on sharecropping has emphasized its importance in reducing problems associated with moral hazard in cultivation (Tuscany), or in providing an important ‘rung’ on the farm ladder (US South). Yet despite these and other important features, sharecropping is surprisingly absent...
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Accounting for Growth in Spain, 1850-2019
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro; Rosés, Joan R. - 2020
The current productivity slowdown has stimulated research on the causes of growth. We investigate here the proximate determinants of long-term growth in Spain. Over the last 170 years output per hour worked raised nearly 24-fold dominating GDP growth, while hours worked per person shrank by...
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The Impact of Financial and Product Market Innovation on the Nature of Entrepreneurship : A Historical Perspective
Toms, Steve - 2017
It is well recognized that the nature of entrepreneurial activity varies by context and historical epoch. But are there systematic underlying factors that cause such significant differences in the entrepreneurial opportunity set? This paper presents a conceptualization of entrepreneurship based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969425
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A hesitant evolution: industrialisation and de-industrialisation in Greece over the long run
Louri, Helen; Pepelasis Minoglou, Ioanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The paper is an attempt to examine the idiosyncratic unfolding of Greek industrialisation and de-industrialisation from a long-run perspective (1867-1994). Following stylized facts, it is shown that the main shifts in the Greek economy occurred outside industry (from agriculture to services)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876879
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The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its Influence on Steel Imports from Taiwan
Best, Frank
, power generation in Taiwan relies heavily on fossil fuels. This paper identifies the Iron & Steel product flows from Taiwan … to the EU. It describes the CBAM requirements and the potential impact on Taiwanese Iron & Steel exports, pointing out …. Taiwan is an important trade partner of the EU, especially for electronic components, and also for base metals like Iron …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490233
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The Iron and Steel Industry in Asia: Development and Restructuring
Sato, Hajime - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009
The paper examines the development and restructuring of the iron and steel industry in Asian countries. Studying … differences in steel production technologies in terms of initial investment and minimum-efficient scale, the changing role of the … state, and shifting demand structures in the domestic steel markets of each country have been the important factors that led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103174
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The Sources of Long-run Growth in Spain 1850-2000
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro; Rosés, Joan R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Between 1850 and 2000, Spain’s real income increased by about 40-fold, at an average rate of 2.5 percent. The sources of this long-run growth are investigated using Jorgenson-type growth accounting analysis. We find that growth upsurges are closely related to increases in TFP. Spanish economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124439
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Les prémices de la diffusion d'information aux salariés. Les discours des médailles du travail chez trois sidérurgistes français (1934-1977)
Labardin, Pierre; Floquet, Mathieu - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
professional rite. We study the speeches of three French steel companies between 1934 and 1977. A statistical analysis of these …
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Builders’ wages in southern England and the southern Low Countries, 1346 -1500: a comparative study of trends in and levels of real incomes
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The traditional and almost universal method of expressing real wages is by index numbers, according to the formula: RWI = NWI/CPI: i.e., the real wage is the quotient of the nominal (money) wage index divided by the consumer price index, all employing a common base period (here: 1451-75 = 100)....
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METALMAKING IN ITALY, 1861-1913: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL TIME SERIES
Ciccarelli, Carlo; Fenoaltea, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents national and regional time-series estimates of metalmaking production in post-Unification Italy. The former broadly confirm their immediate predecessors; the latter are altogether new. The regional series evidence the industry's geographic concentration: the significant...
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