Browsing Iberometrics VIII by Title
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Does a small cost share reflect a negligible role for energy in economic production? Testing for aggregate production functions including capital, labor, and useful exergy through a cointegration-based method
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
Neoclassical models disregard the role of energy in production, equating a factor's output elasticity with its cost share, but failing to explain growth without a residual term. In contrast, ecological economics ... -
Escaping Europe: health and human capital of Holocaust refugees
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
The large-scale persecution of European Jews during the Second World War generated massive refugee movements. We study the last wave of Holocaust refugees with a newly compiled dataset of mostly Jewish passengers from ... -
Fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy in Spain, 1874-1913
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
Este artículo pretende trazar una visión general de los mecanismos de transmisión de los instrumentos de política macroeconómica (política fiscal, cambiaria y monetaria) en una economía nacional durante el patrón oro ... -
From convergence to divergence: Portuguese demography and economic growth, 1500-1850
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
We construct the first time-series for Portugal ’s per capita GDP for 1500-1850, drawing on a new and extensive database. Starting around 1550 there was a highly persistent upward trend of per capita income, which ... -
Growth, inequality and extraction in Ibero-American democratizations
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
Will democracy improve the distribution of economic welfare? Do dictatorships leave long-run legacies behind? In this paper we explore four Ibero-American countries with some common historical traits, but also different ... -
The influence of values in age at first marriage and marital fertility: an analysis in rural Spain at micro level (1880-2009)
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
This paper analyzing the way some group values and individual values affected age at first marriage (both of men and women) and marital fertility during the First and Second Demographic Transition. For that purpose, ... -
The long memory of poverty: the Historical Unsatisfied Basic Needs and the geographic patterns of standards of living in Argentina (and Spain) in the last 100 years
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
Regional inequality in living standards is a major social problem in the very top of most of the political agendas worldwide. However, their origins and ultimate causes are far from clear. ... -
Public borrowing and crowding out in Spain (1768-1808)
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
This paper aims at providing quantitative and qualitative evidence of a crowding out effect due to war borrowing at the end of eighteenth-century Spain. In the second section, I examine the two key links in the crowding ... -
Tracing the evolution of agglomeration economies: Spain, 1860-1991
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
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 ... -
The urban-rural height gap in late nineteenth-century Catalonia
(2017) Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
This paper aims to explore whether and to what extent there was a gap in biological living standards between rural and urban areas. It focuses on the north-eastern Iberian region of Catalonia by making use ...
