Current trade liberalization in Europe has stimulated the theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of economic integration on industrial location. The aim of this paper is to analyse, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of trade liberalization and market integration in 19th...

Il s'agit de degager la singularite de la demarche intellectuelle de Machon, qui merite, a plus d'un titre, la plus grande attention.

This study compares the international transmission of both nominal and real business cycle shocks from 1861 to 1913 in Scandinavia and the Southern European countries of Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Cointegration analysis and estimated vector autoregression for real GDP and inflation reveal the...

For more than three years a research project has been developed at the EUI focusing on the computerized historical mapping of European transports and communications. It developed out of a previous project on "the second technological revolution and the economic growth of Europe : the role of...

The title workshop 'Narratives of the Servant' suggests major shifts both in the perception of historical discourse and in methodological perspectives of the history of domestic service. Narrative as a common denominator of all papers encompasses the problematique of historical discourse in...

In this paper the events of the expansion abroad of the large Italian banks during the period 1900-1950 have been reconstructed. This expansion has been analysed using a geographical criterion considering the different regions where Italian banks created branches or affiliated banks between the...

I analyze time-varying risk premia in long-term government securities during the classical gold standard period 1880-1914. I employ a quasi-capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to analyze the time path of systematic risk for a cross section of six countries that adhered to the gold standard to...

Cet expose sera binaire: la premiere partie s'interessera aux sources et aux contextes socio-historiques et litteraires qui ont favorise la maturation de la tetralogie Torquemada; la deuxieme sera consacree a la lecture de cette serie romanesque sous le signe de l'usure.

The essays of this volume were presented at a workshop held at the European University significance. At the discussion on that occasion, the role of gender had emerged as a central component in the production of historical work and the need was felt to continue the discussion. Therefore this...