Search results for "Econometric"

El Estado en los campos. La regulación del cultivo del arroz en la España del siglo xix

2012

El papel desempenado por el Estado en la economia espanola del siglo XIX ha sido muy controvertido y, en general, ha recibido juicios negativos. Este articulo trata de evaluar la intervencion publica en el ambito de la regulacion del cultivo del arroz. Justificada frente al paludismo, esta reglamentacion encontro grandes dificultades para ser aplicada hasta que se consolido el nuevo aparato estatal salido de la revolucion liberal, a causa de las resistencias locales y las limitaciones administrativas. En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, sin embargo, el Estado establecio una legislacion que perviviria en el tiempo y fue ampliamente respetada. De ese modo el Estado mostro una cierta autonomia …

Clara Eugenia Núñez y Gabriel Tortella (eds.), La maldición divina. Ignorancia y atraso económico en perspectiva histórica, Madrid, Alianza Universid…

1995

Tracing the Evolution of Agglomeration Economies: Spain, 1860–1991

2016

Trabajo presentado a Iberometrics VIII: Eight Iberian Cliometrics Workshop. Organizado por el Institute of Advanced Research in Business and Economics (INARBE) de la Universidad Pública de Navarra, en colaboración con Glocred y expertos de instituciones de España y Portugal. Celebrado en la Upna el 20-21 de abril de 2017. This article attempts to quantify how the effect of agglomeration economies on population growth has evolved over time. Using district population in Spain between 1860 and 1991, recorded approximately every decade, this article examines whether initial population affects subsequent population growth. Our results show that, while the relationship between these two variables…

Two Great Banking Crises and Their Economic Impact Compared: Spain 1976/1977 and 2008

2017

The 1976/1977 crisis was the most severe in Spanish history, but the losses associated with the 2008 crisis are huge. This paper compares these two great banking crises and identifies the main parallels and differences between them. Is the current crisis as severe as that of 1976? What is the impact on the banking and financial sectors? We show that the 1976 crisis is being surpassed by the 2008 crisis in terms of the decline in GDP, industrial production and unemployment, and that these two events have had at least a similar impact in terms of output gap and output loss. Finally, the financial impact measured by different financial indicators confirms the greater severity of the 2008 crisi…

The price of improvements: agrarian contracts and agrarian development in nineteenth-century eastern Spain1

2011

Fixed-rent contracts do not free landlords from the need to supervise the land if it is of high value and fragile fertility, nor do they free them from the costs of monitoring farmers if they are poor peasants prone to fall into arrears. In such cases, however, compensation for improvements will encourage tenants to farm with care and act as a bond against non-payment of rent. This article studies the repercussions of these kinds of situations by analysing what happened in nineteenth-century Valencia, where being the owners of the improvements led to tenants eventually becoming the owners of the land.

“A certain amount of ‘recantation’”: On the origins of Frank H. Knight’s antipositivism

2016

The aim of this paper is to investigate in some detail the origins of Knight’s antipositism and to assess the main influences that brought him to a change in methodological perspective after 1921. As importantly, what follows is also an attempt to increase our general understanding of the methodological debates taking place during the early decades of the last century and to shed new light on the inherently pluralistic character of US interwar economics. This paper is organized as follows: the first section outlines Knight’s methodological views as presented in his early works; the second section discusses Knight’s “recantation” and his attack on behavioristic social science; the third sect…

Privatisation, decentralisation and production adjustment in the Russian defence industry

1998

PRIVATISATION IN THE DEFENCE INDUSTRY was until 1993 characterised by two features. Firstly, it affected a small number of organisations considered not too important within the sector. Nevertheless, one must point out that, at the end of 1992, some outstanding companies from the defence sector started to be privatised, which marked the first extension of the phenomenon to this sector of the economy. Secondly, the privatisation in this early period lacked organisation and control. Legislation was passed in 1993 with the aim of establishing some order in the privatisation process in the defence industry. From that time (until 1996) the idea was to foster a broad privatisation process with a v…

Restructuring the defence industry and arms production in Russia

2000

AT THE BEGINNING OF 1997, after five years of failed reforms in the defence industry, there took place a substantial change in the administrative structure running this sector. The Ministry of Economic Affairs took over the restructuring of the defence industry and thereby defined a new way of tackling reforms in this industrial sector. Three elements stand out in the new approach: intersectorality, a predominance of civilian elements and a greater realism. This approach, therefore, represents a break with the idea in force up to that moment of the best way to tackle problems related to the defence industry, which was greatly conditioned by its Soviet heritage. Although two years later this…

La compra silenciosa. Arrendamientos, estabilidad y mejoras en la agricultura valenciana de regadío (1850–1930)

2007

Resumen Este articulo analiza como fue posible, en el regadio valenciano, un desarrollo agrario basado en el arrendamiento de pequenas explotaciones. Del estudio de los contratos firmados en la huerta de Gandia se deduce, en primer lugar, que los arrendatarios ocupaban la parcela durante un periodo bastante prolongado de tiempo, que tendio a crecer durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX; y, en segundo, que a menudo los cultivadores eran indemnizados al finalizar su contrato por las mejoras que habian introducido. A largo plazo, todo ello consolido su posicion, porque el cultivador se convirtio en “semipropietario” de hecho de la tierra mejorada. Por su parte, los terratenientes rentistas ob…

Datos climáticos históricos para las regiones españolas. CRU TS 2.1

2012

Este trabajo transforma la base de datos mundial del Climate Research Unit de la Universidad de East Anglia (http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/), conocida como CRU TS 2.1, en datos regionales para España, tanto a nivel provincial como de comunidad autónoma. Dicha base de datos, cuyo formato original es de tipo grid, no se ajusta a las necesidades de los historiadores e investigadores sociales y ello por dos motivos. Por una parte, estos estudiosos no son familiares, todavía, con las nuevas técnicas de los sistemas de información geográfica (SIG) necesarias para la manipulación de estas estructuras de datos. Por otra parte, y más importante, los datos disponibles en este formato no pueden ser combina…