This paper investigates the persistence of entrepreneurship in the region of Kaliningrad between 1925 and 2010. During this time period the area experienced a number of extremely disruptive shocks including; devastation caused by World War II, a nearly complete replacement of the native German...

This paper examines the issue of the Greek public debt from different perspectives. We provide a historical discussion of the accumulation of Greece's public debt since the 1960s and the role of public debt in the recent crisis. We show that the austerity imposed since 2010 has been unsuccessful...

Greek Abstract: Όπως ο ιστορικός χρόνος εμφανίζεται με πολλαπλές ταχύτητες στα διάφορα πεδία, έτσι και ο ιστορικός τόπος αποκτά διαφορετική σημασία στην εναλλαγή των...

The fact that the ending of World War I entailed the dissolution of the central government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire meant that in 1919 and 1920, as the victors convened a Peace Conference, the peoples across all of “mid-Europe” embarked on the creation of new governments within new...

German Abstract: Flucht und Migration aus den Ländern der Dritten Welt haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten ein bisher nie dagewesenes Ausmaß angenommen. Sie werden voraussichtlich alles überschreiten, was zuvor geschehen ist. Afrika ist besonders von diesen Migrationsbewegungen betroffen. Obwohl...

What characterizes regions where right-wing populist parties are relatively successful? A prominent hypothesis proposed in recent literature claims that places that are "left behind" or "do not matter" are a breeding ground for the rise of populism. We re-examine this hypothesis by analyzing the...

This paper examines the consequences of the commuter transport revolution on working class labour markets in 1930s London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ choice of potential employers. Using GIS-based data constructed from the New Survey of London Life...

In the racially tense late 1960s, Kinloch Missouri was a politically autonomous Black community of nearly 10,000 residents, composed of African-Americans who were free to plan and conduct their own municipal affairs by whatever means they chose to try and improve their conditions. The town was...

This study investigates the determinants of banks’ profitability on a sample of 169 commercial banks located in 7 countries of South-Eastern Europe. Specifically, the study employs dynamic panel data analysis based on the generalized method of moments over a period spanning from 2003–2012....