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Title: Il commercio estero italiano: 1862-1950 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni; NATOLI, Sandra; TATTARA, Giuseppe; VASTA, Michelangelo Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Il volume ricostruisce i dati del commercio estero italiano dall’Unità d’Italia al 1950. Il commercio estero, anche per i suoi legami con la crescita, è stato sempre al centro del dibattito sulla politica economica. Sin ...
Title: Was Industrialization An Escape From the Commodity Lottery? Evidence From Italy, 1861-1939 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni; VASTA, Michelangelo Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The specialization in exporting primary products is frequently deemed harmful for long-run development, because it increases volatility of terms of trade and thus the number and frequency of macroeconomic shocks. One would ...
Title: Comments on the paper by Michelangelo Vasta Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article
Title: Breve storia economica dell'agricoltura Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2009-01-01 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Negli ultimi due secoli il settore agricolo ha ottenuto risultati eccezionali, riuscendo a nutrire sempre meglio una popolazione mondiale in forte crescita. Nell'intento di spiegare con chiarezza cause e fattori di tale ...
Title: A Short-Lived Backlash: The political economy of wheat protection in Europe in the first half of the 19th century Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In the first half of the 19th century, the wheat trade policy in Western European countries followed a major political cycle, featuring a massive increase in protection in the late 1810s and early 1820s, and a slow process ...
Title: Agriculture and economic development in Italy 1861-1939 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
Title: Market power on the colonial frontier? Evidence from São Paulo 1800-1840 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni; PAIXAO, Ricardo Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article
Title: Market Power on the Colonial Frontier? Evidence From Sao Paulo 1800-1840 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni; PAIXAO, Ricardo Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Economists often assume that agricultural markets in history were competitive, and all producers received the same price. in contrast, most agricultural historians deem prices to differ among agents, according to their ...
Title: The first European grain invasion: a study in the integration of the European market 1750-1870 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI HEC Abstract: This paper argues that market integration should be measured as σ-convergence over the largest possible sample of markets. It test this claim with an empirical analysis of the European market for wheat, rye and candles ...
Title: Market integration and convergence in the world wheat market, 1800-2000 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni; PERSSON, Karl Gunnar Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This paper argues that the conventional view which sees international transport costs reductions as the major force in price convergence cannot be upheld when the period under scrutiny is extended to the last two centuries. ...
Title: Market integration and market efficiency. The case of 19th century Italy Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper examines market integration in Italy in the 19th century, focusing on wheat. Wheat prices converged well before political Unification (1859–1861) but the process halted during the 1860s only to resume in the ...
Title: Ma l’agricoltura meridionale era davvero arretrata? Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article
Title: Protection and Italian economic development: much ado about nothing? Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
Title: Entries Commercial Policy and Protectionism Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
Title: A proposito di Stefano Fenoaltea, 'L'economia italaina dall'Unità alla Grande Guerra', Bari-Roma 2006 Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article
Title: The “real” puzzle of share-cropping: why is it disappearing? Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Most of the literature on sharecropping deals with the reasons for the adoption of an allegedly irrational contract. Empirical testing of theoretical hypotheses is comparatively under-developed and the data on the worldwide ...
Title: The 'real' puzzle of sharecropping: why is it disappearing? Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Ce qui s'écrit à propos du métayage traite pour une bonne partie des raisons pour lesquelles on se trouve adopter une forme de contrat apparemment aussi irrationnelle. Les hypothèses que formule la théorie à ce propos n'ont ...
Title: Sharecropping in history Author(s): SCHOFIELD, Phillipp; CâMARA, Benedita; CâMARA, Benedita; CARMONA, Juan; FEDERICO, Giovanni; SANTOS, Rui Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article
Title: Seta, agricoltura e sviluppo economico in Italia Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Article
Title: Not guilty? Agriculture in the 1920s and the Great Depression Author(s): FEDERICO, Giovanni Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Article