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Counting the missing poor in pre-industrial societies
Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures suffer from a selection bias: they do not count the missing poor (i.e., persons who would...
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Green Industrial Policy in Europe: Past, Present, and Prospects
This paper critically examines the concept of green industrial policy in the context of the European Union (EU) under the European Green Deal—an...
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The origins of the division of labor in pre-industrial times
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-industrial societies. Exploiting a variety of identification strategies...
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Cliometric Approaches to Central, East, and South-East Europe
Following a brief historiography of cliometric research on the Eastern half of Europe and a summary of six pioneering publications, this chapter...
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Labour productivity and regional labour markets resilience in Europe
This paper conceptualizes and empirically explores the resilience of European Union regional labour markets in terms of labour productivity growth....
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The rural exodus and the rise of Europe
We build a unified model of growth and internal migration and identify its deep parameters using an original set of Swedish data. Our structural...
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Regional and Urban Development in Europe∗
This chapter provides an overview of the historical economic development of regions, their successes and failures, and their advances and retreats,...
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The Natural Gas War Between Europe and Russia After the Invasion of Ukraine
This study aims to explain and evaluate the Euro-Russian natural gas war, which started after the Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022, within the scope...
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Economic Inertia in the Transitional Economies of Eastern Europe
The restoration of capitalism, opened by the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe and by the August 1991 coup/countercoup/revolution in the...
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Minerals in the future of Europe
This paper deals with the future of mining in Europe but in the framework of a global pandemic. We have analysed the various prognosis of global...
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Climate transition risk in determining credit risk: evidence from firms listed on the STOXX Europe 600 index
This paper assesses whether a climate factor is relevant to measure default risk in a sample of main companies listed on the STOXX Europe 600...
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Green Hydrogen Supply Chains in Latin America – A Research Approach for Partnership Projects with Europe
The transition from fossil to climate-neutral energy sources and supply chains has become a pressing challenge. Green hydrogen is expected to play an...
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Sources of productivity growth in Eastern Europe and Russia before the global financial crisis
This paper shows that the industrial origins of productivity growth in Czechia, Hungary, and Slovenia (CEE-3) and Russia before 2008 were similar and...
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Dependent Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe
The purpose of this chapter is to show how initial conditions in 1989–1990, the legacy of the former socialist system, and both processes of...
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Electricity Markets in Europe
This chapter introduces the different European electricity markets and explains the basic principles of these markets and how they are interlinked...
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Cohesive Growth in Europe: A Tale of Two Peripheries
Over the last two decades, income disparities between EU member states tended to decline, particularly before the financial crisis. While Central and...
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Financial Linkages and Sectoral Business Cycle Synchronization: Evidence from Europe
We analyze whether financial integration leads to converging or diverging business cycles using a dynamic spatial model. Our model allows for...
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The Impact of World War II on Gas Production in Latin Europe
During World War II, the problems that the gas sector faced were the lack and the increased cost of coal, the raw material with which most of the gas...
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Capital Networks and Early Papermaking
This chapter explores the emergence of the Dutch paper industry in the phase of Dutch capitalism starting from 1580. Swiftly earning acclaim as the...
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The Mystical Body of Europe and Central Banks
To get far, perhaps we need to return to thinking about the economy with the breath we once had: the infinite breath of intellectual issues, before...