[eng] Abstract In this article, I will give a presentation of the recent opinions and findings on these two questions concerning the state and the development of Dutch infrastructure in the 19th century. This paper analyses some aspects of competition and complementarity among the various modes...

Belgium and The Netherlands share a lot of common characteristics in historical development, geographical location, political and institutional structure and in the size and degree of the openness of their economies. However, detailed comparisons of economic development of Belgium and The...

This paper describes the results of a study on prices, real output and productivity for the Dutch manufacturing sector in the period 1921-1960. Use was made of the production statistics: an annual survey by the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics of important manufacturing industries. The...

The evolution of city growth is usually studied for relatively short time periods. The rise and decline of cities is, however, typically a process that takes many decades or even centuries. In this paper we study the evolution of Italian cities over the period 1300-1861. The first contribution...

This paper applies a growth accounting approach to monitor growth performance of the Netherlands since 1913, which looks at the contribution of, labour, human capital, physical and knowledge capital to real output growth. The paper also compares growth and level of per capita income and...

We present a new estimate of Anglo-German manufacturing output and productivity levels by industry for 1935/36. It is based on newly explored archival data on German manufacturing together with published British census data. We calculate comparative levels of value added, correcting for...

In this paper we analyze the dynamics of Dutch economic growth for the period 1815-1997. By applying a simple econometric technique, important braking points in the timeseries are traced. It seems that three phases of growth can be discerned and that these phases are characterized by different...