This study investigates the impact of joint-stock banks on the rationalization of the British interwar steel industry. A new panel data set of steel firm characteristics covering 1920–1938 is used to document rationalization and bank involvement…
The article presents and discusses estimates of social and economic indicators for Italy and its regions in benchmark years roughly from Unification to the present day: life expectancy, education, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita at purchasing …
Newly assembled macroeconomic statistics for early modern Portugal reveal one of Europe’s most vigorous colonial traders but one of its least successful growth records. Was the empire a blessing or a drag to the economy? Using an estimated dynamic mod…
The recent financial crisis has placed the concept of fiscal dominance at the center of current debates on macro-prudential policies. However, empirical evidence of fiscal dominance, understood as fiscal policy driving monetary policy, has been mixed,…
The persistence of a significant urban–rural wage gap challenges the notion of competitive equilibrium. This paper examines the earnings gap between urban and rural workers in Sweden between 1865 and 1985. Proper measurement by cost-of-living, w…
10.1080/13507486.2014.986435<br/>Vilmos Erős
10.1080/14781700.2014.992463<br/>Lourens de Vries
10.1080/0023656X.2015.994286<br/>Pietra Rivoli
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