129793 20240111114816.0 doi 10.1111/ehr.12937 sideral 117445 ART-2020-117445 eng Murray, John E. Integration in European coal markets, 1833–1913 2020 This article analyses coal market integration in Europe over the long nineteenth century. The market integration of coal, a key commodity associated with the industrial revolution, is an aspect of European economic history that has received little attention. The literature on the evolution of markets has concentrated on agricultural products, mostly cereals. This article examines intra- and international market integration in the principal coal-producing countries, Britain, Germany, France, and Belgium; and adds three main consuming southern European countries to the analysis of the international market. It provides new evidence on prices, as well as trade, and uses a straightforward approach to address coal price behaviour. Despite shocks, clear trends toward integration in both domestic and international markets can be observed, even if by one of our measures the latter started at a later date. Processes of market integration, however, seemed to slow from the end of the nineteenth century. Explanations are offered as to the causes of the extent and timing of integrations: reductions, mainly, in transportation costs, but also in information costs, and, in the international market, protectionism. The influence of cartels, on the other hand, may have been limited, particularly in the international market. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S27 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2015-65582 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PGC2018-095529-B-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PGC2018-096640-B-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 1.911 2020 HISTORY 5 / 101 = 0.05 2020 Q1 T1 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 4 / 34 = 0.118 2020 Q1 T1 ECONOMICS 189 / 375 = 0.504 2020 Q3 T2 1.014 2020 History 2020 Q1 Economics and Econometrics 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Silvestre, Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-0716-4713 4008 480 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb. Área Hª e Instituc.Económ. 73, 3 (2020), 668-702 Econ. hist. rev. ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW 0013-0117 2070164 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129793/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1506372 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129793/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:129793 articulos driver 2024-01-11-09:27:30 ARTICLE