The book is an attempt to make a presentation of the development of international finance and economy in Bulgaria from mainly a historical perspective, until the recession after 2008. The detailed view of facts allows to make new interpretation of the processes and leads to some surprising...

Research on the economics and sociology of business networks also sheds light on the development of networks of countries. The British Commonwealth was an important global network, or group of networks, in the mid-twentieth century. Commonwealth members, including Australia and New Zealand,...

The recent fears of a sovereign debt crisis have spurred interest in the sustainability of public debt. There are two different approaches to the assessment of sustainability: the use of sustainability gap indicators (Blanchard et al., 1990) and the time series approach (Trehan and Walsh, 1988)....

On the basis of data from the Historical Monetary Statistics-project by Norges Bank, the present paper serves a threefold purpose. In the first place it gives an overview of financial crisis in Norway from her independence from Denmark in 1814 till present times. Secondly, historical business...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the sustainability of public debt in Italy during the last 150 years (1861-2010) by employing a database containing several statistical novelties: new time series estimates of public debt and GDP (respectively Bank of Italy and Baffigi, 2011) and an original...

In questo lavoro utilizziamo i nuovi dati storici di contabilità nazionale per l'Italia nel periodo 1861-2010, ricostruiti dalla Banca d'Italia e dall'Istat, con la collaborazione dell'Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata.” La prima parte consiste in uno studio dettagliato delle...

La ricerca presentata è parte di un progetto di revisione della contabilità nazionale dell'Italia dal 1891 al 1970. La ricostruzione per il periodo 1951-1970 è partita dalla precedente stima della matrice 1951 e si è conclusa con la matrice 1970. Il 1970 rappresenta l'ultimo dei "piloni" su...

Questo lavoro ricostruisce serie storiche delle banche, degli istituti di emissione, della Cassa Depositi e Prestiti e degli intermediari non bancari dal 1861 al 2011. Le statistiche si riferiscono alle principali voci dei bilanci bancari, alla circolazione monetaria, alla raccolta postale, ai...

Since it became a united country, Italy was looked at with keen eyes by foreign economists, economic historians and policy makers. They wanted to see whether it would be possible for the economy of a country which had in the XVII and XVIII century regressed to the role of agricultural raw...

A great deal of new quantitative research has been produced over the last three decades which has radically changed the received interpretation of Italian economic development. Against this backdrop, the Bank of Italy, Istat and the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", together with academics from...