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How did Japan catch‐up with the West? Some implications of recent revisions to Japan's historical growth record

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, Tokihiko Settsu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How FDI reshapes host markets’ trade profile and politics

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract A fast‐growing literature indicates that firms’ engagement in foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade is key to understanding deepening global value chains and their political implications. However, existing studies have mainly focused on the ramifications for FDI home countries while often overlooking the firm‐product level interactions ...
In Song Kim, Steven Liao, Sayumi Miyano
wiley   +1 more source

The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Appendix 1: The effects of the oil price shocks on shipbuilding in the 1970s

, 2017
This small chapter attempts to give the reader an appreciation of the effects of the two oil price shocks on the market for ships. We address changes both on the demand side (shipping) and the supply side (shipbuilding) in the 1970s and early 1980s.
H. Murphy, Stig Tenold
semanticscholar   +1 more source

70 years of Scottish National Accounts: 1948–2018

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive time series of historical National Accounts for Scotland (onshore and offshore) from 1948 to 2018. It includes a detailed breakdown by income component and industrial sector using methods that are forward and backward compatible.
Graeme Roy, Niall G. MacKenzie, Sandy Stewart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE U.S. SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY: A SHORT HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE (ABSTRACT)

Essays in Economic and Business History, 2001
The U. S. shipbuilding industry is a highly complex industrial market, as well as one of our nation’s oldest industries. Faced with a myriad of threatening internal and external forces, the industry has suffered a rather significant decline for over a ...
Ronald Taylor, Richard Stone
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Against the odds: The evolution of the European naval shipbuilding industry

, 2017
Despite a low volume of production at national levels, the European naval industry remains quite fragmented 25 years after the end of the cold war. Contrary to what might be expected from an industrial or budgetary perspective, neither cross-border ...
Renaud Bellais
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ESG, Bank Debt and Firm Value: A Signaling Perspective

Journal of International Financial Management &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper delves into the influence of bank debt in shaping the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and a firm's value. As a result of the superior informational and monitoring functions of bank borrowers in their lending relationships, we argue that a firm's degree of bank debt might signal the ...
Gabriel De la Fuente, Pilar Velasco
wiley   +1 more source

Ugovori o gradnji broda i hrvatska pravila o mjerodavnom pravu i sukobu zakona

Poredbeno Pomorsko Pravo, 2001
O hrvatskim pravilima o mjerodavnom pravu i sukobu zakona kod ugovora o gradnji broda može se govoriti na tri razine: na razini mjerodavnog prava kojim ugovorne starne (naručitelj i brodograditelj) reguliraju međusobne odnose; na razini primjene stvarnih
Zoran Tasić
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