The distribution of economic activity in Spain by night. New Economic Geography (NEG) stresses the role of accessibility as an explanatory factor of the spatial distribution of economic activity. According to this theoretical framework, when transport costs decline, production (mainly that characterised by increasing returns and imperfect competition) will tend to agglomerate in locations with a […]
NEW EHES Working paper: How did the capital market evaluate Germany’s prospects for winning World War I?
Evidence from the Amsterdam market for government bonds Tobias Jopp is Akademischer Rat (post-doc) at Universität Regensburg Economic historians have increasingly used market prices for a country’s sovereign debt to learn more about the importance, or unimportance, of special events seen through the lens of contemporaries. Such “special events” typically include war, political turmoil, and economic crisis. Especially the American […]
NEW EHES Working Paper about Bank Deregulation, Competition and Economic Growth
Bank Deregulation, Competition and Economic Growth: The US Free Banking Experience Philipp Ager, assistantprofessor at University ofSouthern Denmark What is the optimal level of bank competition? New research by Philipp Ager and Fabrizio Spargoli sheds light on this question by testing how the introduction of free banking laws between 1837 and 1863 affected bank competition […]
The Florence FRESH Meeting
The Florence FRESH Meeting (European University Institute) opened with a session on Financial Markets. Andrea Papadia (LSE) showed that foreign debt repurchased by German citizens and companies in the 1930s helped the country to cope with sovereign risk, as recent advances in sovereign risk theory predict. Jérémy Ducros (Paris School of Economics) put forward possible […]
Essex FRESH meeting on migration history
The Essex FRESH meeting, with a theme on migration in history, was held at the University of Essex on October 18. The participants greatly appreciated an excellent keynote address by Tim Hatton, Essex, who focused particularly on how to measure the wage profiles of immigrants in American history. Among many excellent presentations might be mentioned […]
The lessons of the 1930s, by Nicholas Crafts in Odense
‘The Macroeconomic History of the 1930s’ given by Nick Crafts, Warwick, and organized by the University of Southern Denmark, October 21-23, 2013, was a popular PhD course which brought together 13 PhD students and 4 senior colleagues. A common theme of interest for the participants was the quantitative economic-historical analyses of the depression in the […]
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