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Browsing HEC Articles by Author "FEDERICO, Giovanni"
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Title:Was Industrialization An Escape From the Commodity Lottery? Evidence From Italy, 1861-1939
Author(s):FEDERICO, Giovanni; VASTA, MichelangeloDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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:Market Power on the Colonial Frontier? Evidence From Sao Paulo 1800-1840
Author(s):FEDERICO, Giovanni; PAIXAO, RicardoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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:Market integration and market efficiency. The case of 19th century Italy
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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:Sharecropping in history
Author(s):SCHOFIELD, Phillipp; CâMARA, Benedita; CâMARA, Benedita; CARMONA, Juan; FEDERICO, Giovanni; SANTOS, RuiDate:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:The 'real' puzzle of sharecropping: why is it disappearing?
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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:The “real” puzzle of share-cropping: why is it disappearing?
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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:Heights, Calories and Welfare: A New Perspective on Italian Industrialization, 1854–191
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The height of Italian conscripts was increasing throughout the second half of the 19th century due primarily to an increases in food intake, but also to an improvement in sanitary conditions, and diffusion of primary ...