作者：Universita Ca Foscari Venezia
摘要：I analyzed the market of paintings in Florence and Italy (1285-1550). Hedonic regressions on real prices allowed me to advance evidence that the market was competitive and that an important determinant of artistic innovation was driven by economic incentives. Price differentials reflected quality differentials between painters as perceived at the time (whose proxy is the length of the biography of Vasari) and did not depend on regional destinations, as expected under monopolistic competition w...
作者：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
作者：Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); University of Valencia
摘要：Using district population in Spain between 1860 and 1991, recorded approximately every decade, this article examines whether initial population affects subsequent population growth. While such a relationship between these two variables hardly existed during the second half of the nineteenth century, this link increased significantly between 1910 and 1970, although this trend was abruptly interrupted by the Civil War and the autarkic period that followed. The intensity of this relationship decr...
作者：Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
作者：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
作者：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; American University
