The paper presents trade policy as in line with that of other continental European powers, with a move to moderate levels of tariff protection for politically sensitive sectors such as steel and textiles and clothing, but also in agriculture, with levels of protection falling slightly before the...

Italian Abstract: Il saggio presenta la nuova serie annuale del valore aggiunto dei servizi dal 1861 al 1951, a prezzi correnti. Per ogni settore, dopo aver descritto fonti e metodologia, i risultati vengono confrontati con le precedenti serie Istat (1957). L’attenzione qui prestata al valore...

This discussion paper is a follow-up to a previous bibliometric analysis of articles published in The International Journal of Maritime History and maritime-themed articles published in other economic and business history journals over the last 25 years. The paper looks more closely at articles...

In this paper, we explore the factors that determine the longevity of firms. Five central factors were distilled from the literature: position in the supply chain, the nature of the technology used, structure, culture, and financial policy. We made an extensive case-study of the Dutch storage...

From a long-term perspective, technological innovation could have come from local or domestic inventive and research activity, or from the transfer of foreign technology. In reality either option produces similar effects and often it was a combination of both which drove the historical...

In this paper we will explore how international corporations used the Spanish patent system in the late nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in order to discover what the actual effects of its apparent weakness were. The origins and evolution of corporate patenting...

Asistimos en la actualidad a la finalización del proceso de liberalización del sector eléctrico que se inició a finales del siglo XX. Durante más de cincuenta años esta actividad estuvo fuertemente regulada, pero no siempre fue así. El retorno a un mercado de libre competencia y...

This text attempts to survey the studies on the history of international economic relations in Portugal. To begin with, it states, in a more general analysis, that the research on the history of international economic relations in Portugal has focussed mainly on the history of the international...

Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...