Book · December 5, 2016
The twentieth century has seen the rise of modern central banking. At its close, it is also witnessing the first steps in the decline of the role of some of the most famous of these institutions. In this volume, some of the world's best known specialists e ...
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Book · January 1, 2014
This book, first published in 1990, examines Italy’s economic history from its Unification in 1850 to the end of the First World War. Particular attention is paid to the extent to which Italy exhibits the features of Kaznets’s model of ‘modern economic gro ...
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Book · 2013
This Oxford Handbook provides a fresh overall view and interpretation of the modern
economic growth of one of the largest European countries, whose economic history is less known
internationally than that of other comparably large and successful economie ...
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Chapter · September 18, 2012
The French economist Jean Fourastié called them 'les trente glorieuses'. The Germans and the Italians coined the words Wirtschaft swunder and miracolo economico, respectively. No matter how the thirty-odd years after the end of World War II were characteri ...
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Book · June 25, 2012
Modern central banks came of age in the inter-war period. By then, they valued their independence as an essential feature of central banking. Strong, Norman and Moreau were ready to stand by the freedom of their institutions at any price. And independence ...
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Journal ArticleOpen Economies Review · April 1, 2012
The three exchange rate regimes adopted by Italy from 1883 up to the eve of World War I - the gold standard (1883-1893), floating rates (1894-1902), and "gold shadowing" (1903-1911)-produced a puzzling result: formal adherence to the gold standard ended in ...
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Conference · January 31, 2012
This chapter examines the effects of monetary unification on market integration. It offers a new perspective on the Euro's likely effectiveness in achieving the 'Single Market' goal of European economic integration, by examining the impact of a nineteenth- ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2009
The three exchange rate regimes adopted by Italy from 1883 up to the eve of World War I — the gold standard (1883-1893), floating rates (1894-1902), and “gold shadowing” (1903-1911) — produced a puzzling result: formal adherence to the gold standard ended ...
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Book · May 1, 2008
This book surveys the main events in the international economy from the outbreak of the First World War to the end of the Second World War: a period of time variously defined as the "globalization backlash", the "Second Thirty Years War", or simply "the Wo ...
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Scholarly Edition · January 1, 2008
INTRODUCTION: The idea that an “international bank” would facilitate central bank cooperation dates back to the late nineteenth century (Toniolo 2005: 20–23). It was officially revived in the immediate postwar period, particularly at the 1922 Genoa economi ...
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Book · January 1, 2008
This book explores the past and future of central bank cooperation. In today’s global economy, the cooperation between central banks is a key element in maintaining or restoring monetary and financial stability, thereby ensuring a smooth functioning of the ...
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Journal Article · November 2007
This paper quantifies the extent and the main characteristics of child work in Italy during the years 1881-1961. From population censuses, we created a new database of the economically active population aged 10-14 by gender, region, and economic sector. We ...
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Book · January 1, 2006
The 1990s were an extraordinary, contradictory, and fascinating period of economic development. Specifically, the ‘boom’ of the 1990s and the way that it ended evoked many historical precedents, particularly, past bubbles and ‘busts’. In this book, contrib ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2006
Introduction: The twentieth century both opened and closed with a bang: The belle epoque before 1914 and the “roaring nineties” (Stiglitz, 2003) just past. It was only after the First World War that people looked back at the 1895-1914 period with nostalgia ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2004
A tradition going back to the Middle Ages prescribes that symposia celebrating a distinguished scholar end with the latter’s laudatio. It is for me both an honour and a pleasure to perform this task. My friendship with Patrick dates back to 1977 when he in ...
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Journal ArticleExplorations in Economic History · January 1, 2003
Years into the single currency, EMU financial markets are not fully integrated. We argue that the phenomenon can be better understood by looking at financial markets' behavior in the wake of Italy's monetary unification (1862). Variables such as the spread ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic History · January 1, 2001
We investigate secular changes in the distribution of personal expenditure in Italy. To this end we present a new data set, consisting of 4,370 family-level budgets scattered over the years 1881-1961. Our methodology is innovative for this kind of study. I ...
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Journal ArticleOxford Review of Economic Policy · December 1, 1999
The past century saw unprecedented rises in life expectancy and living standards. It also witnessed major structural changes, the rise of 'big government' and two globalizations. Yet, the century's economic history was marred by policy and market failures ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic growth in Europe since 1945 · January 1, 1996
This volume re-examines the topic of economic growth in Europe after WWII. Specialist contributors provide new theoretical approaches to the subject, utilising the experience of the 1980s. The analysis is largely based on applied economics and economic his ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic growth in Europe since 1945 · January 1, 1996
This volume re-examines the topic of economic growth in Europe after WWII. Specialist contributors provide new theoretical approaches to the subject, utilising the experience of the 1980s. The analysis is largely based on applied economics and economic his ...
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Journal ArticleExplorations in Economic History · January 1, 1992
This paper takes issue with a mainstream view according to which the alleged poor performance of the Japanese economy during the 1920s was the result of the deflationary macroeconomic policies: such policies were repeatedly announced but not implemented un ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Economic Review · January 1, 1990
The paper takes issue with a mainstream view according to which the alleged poor performance of the Japanese economy during the 1920s was the result of deflationary macroeconomic policies. There is evidence that government spending was moderately on the de ...
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