The contribution of new technologies to economic growth is harnessed only when new technologies are widely diffused in the economy. Diffusion results from a series of individual decisions to introduce the new technologies, decisions being the result of a comparison of the uncertain benefits and...

We study dynamic output co-movements in Europe in a spatial setting where proportion of human capital and its appropriation pattern in production define distance among countries. Significant spatial output and shock correlations are found suggesting possible welfare-enhancing cross-country...

This paper endeavors to study Spanish protectionism on the Italian mirror. On the assumption that the literature presents both European peripheral countries at a similar stage of development and commercial policy replies to late 19th century economic globalization. Italian tariff policy was much...

Credit is a crucial instrument in asset price determination, yet existing research has produced conflicting evidence on its real impact, especially during episodes of heightened uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to show that by segregating credit into credit to the real economy and...