The main objective of this work is to analyze the measures implemented during the Franco dictatorship over the period 1939㈀1959 to revive the exports of cork products, which had fallen sharply since the beginning of the crisis of 1929. The first measure, implemented in 1939 and 1940, was...

The trajectories of internationalisation followed by family firms can be viewed from several theoretical approaches: phases and models of the internationalisation process; international entrepreneurship, the sociological perspective and family business theory. A historical perspective of...

In this paper, we address the partial equilibrium functioning of the shortterm credit market in the Eighteenth-century Lisbon and its response to three major events: massive gold inflows from Brazil, a catastrophic destruction of capital caused by the 1755 earthquake and the enactment of a 5%...

Throughout the Early Modern times, European dynastic states started a long-term process towards the building of a territorial organization, depending on increasing revenues and creating its own self-sustaining logics. Different solutions were found to face expenditures; hence different paths to...

This GHES working paper gathers statistical data on physical indicators of manufacturing production in Portugal. These data were not included in the volumes of Portuguese Historical Statistics published by the Instituto Nacional de Estatistica because of their extension. It has the same purpose...

Durante o período do Estado Novo, com a criação do sistema da Previdência Social, formam-se as bases institucionais em que assenta o actual Estado-providência em Portugal. As decisões políticas sobre a previdência tomadas no período entre 1935 e 1973, em particular a Reforma da...

O Tratado de Roma permitiu alterar de forma duradoura o quadro de relacionamento entre os países da Europa ocidental e, no termo da Guerra-Fria, criar um quadro de referência que orientou a transição para a democracia dos países de leste, bem como a evolução para uma economia de mercado....

This working paper aims to provide data gathered in a research program developed by Gabinete de História Económica e Social (GHE.S) on gold remittances from Brazil in the 18th centrny. Results of this project revise published accounts of bullion flows in the 18th centrny with regard to the...

This research aims to critically assess the references to theories of crises and economic cycles that existed in the main textbooks on political economy of Portuguese universities during the first half of the 20th Century, and, as much as possible, categorise their authors into international...

This text aims at contribuiting to a better knowledge of the history of football in Portugal. After a brief reference to the first period of its practice, its processes of institutionalization and professionalization and to the transformations that have been taking place along the last decade of...