Economic historians have stressed that income convergence was a key feature of the OECD-club and that globalization was among the accelerating forces of this process in the long-run. This view has however been challenged, since it suffers from an ad hoc selection of countries. In the paper, a...

This study ranks - for the first time - 12 international academic journals that have economic history as their main topic. The ranking is based on data collected for the year 2007. Journals are ranked using standard citation analysis where we adjust for age, size and self-citation of journals....

This study ranks—for the first time—12 international academic journals that have economic history as their main topic. The ranking is based on data collected for the year 2007. Journals are ranked using standard citation analysis where we adjust for age, size and self-citation of journals....

This article provides an empirical assessment of the growth experiences of European regions, during the period 1991-2004, by taking into account the spatial effects due to both institutions and geography. These effects have been modeled by means of specific controls and by using a...

Il presente lavoro rappresenta un primo tentativo di analizzare in chiave spaziale l’efficienza conseguita a livello di governo locale in Italia, utilizzando un database di nuova costruzione, che comprende i 341 comuni della regione Emilia- Romagna. La metodologia d’analisi si basa su una...

This paper examines the possibility that a country might follow the global technology frontier partially instead of fully. We develop an empirical test of this possibility, which measures by how much a country follows the frontier. The test shows that indeed most countries do not follow the...