was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why … Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company’s Court of Directors granted … employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics …

was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why … Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company’s Court of Directors granted … employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics …

suffer from primacy. However, FDI is attracted if surrounding countries have fewer cities, restrictions on international … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more mediumsized cities and primacy is not too … trade and low market potential (income per capita). We tentatively conclude that cities are important drivers of FDI and …

suffer from primacy. However, FDI is attracted if surrounding countries have fewer cities, restrictions on international … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too … trade and low market potential (income per capita). We tentatively conclude that cities are important drivers of FDI and …

This paper revisits, modifies, and combines elements of three major ‘institutional’ international-trade models, none of …’ participants (i.e. in the Champagne Fairs), and thus in reducing transaction costs in international trade; and (3) the Epstein … Wee model) to a revival of continental, overland-trade, to a revival and even more dramatic growth in international trade …

, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning …

, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning …

just about 80 percent of that for the Bruges craftsmen, still the best paid in north-west Europe. In Bruges, the craftsmen … Antwerp region (1400-1700), with annual values in pence groot Brabant (but still converted into index numbers); and I have … craftsmen in Bruges; but by the 1480s, when inflation was far more serious in Flanders than in England, that gap had narrowed to …

This article, a contribution to the ‘proto-industrialisation’ debate, examines the relative advantages of urban and … century, when the English cloth trade began its seemingly inexorable expansion, the Low Countries had enjoyed a virtual … supremacy in international cloth markets, then chiefly located in the Mediterranean basin. The traditional view has attributed …

This book discusses legalized protectionism in the World Trade Organization and what to do about it. …