Cristián Ducoing Ruiz- Ph.D. in Economic History
- Senior Researcher ANDIA at Public University of Navarre
Cristián Ducoing Ruiz
- Ph.D. in Economic History
- Senior Researcher ANDIA at Public University of Navarre
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Cristián Ducoing currently works at the Department of Economics, UPNA
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December 2023 - present
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There has been widespread debate about whether the way in which we measure economic activity is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. One aspect of this debate is to move away from measuring a nation’s income (GDP) towards monitoring a nation’s assets (their inclusive wealth), as a better indicator of sustainable economic development. We pro...
There has been widespread debate about whether the way in which we measure economic activity is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. One aspect of this debate is to move away from measuring a nation's income (GDP) towards monitoring a nation's assets (their inclusive wealth), as a better indicator of sustainable economic development. We pro...
El presente capítulo presenta las principales interconexiones entre sostenibilidad e historia económica. La crisis climática que estamos viviendo a nivel global, nos obliga a repensar gran parte de los métodos convencionales de medición de nuestro progreso económico y social. El Producto Interno Bruto, por ejemplo, que ha sido el principal indicado...
We introduce a new database of historical Genuine Savings (GS), an indicator of sustainable development propagated by the World Bank and widely used in contemporary economic research. GS derives from the theoretical work on wealth accounting, and addresses shortcomings in conventional metrics of economic development by incorporating broader measure...
In recent years Genuine Savings (GS) has emerged as an indicator of weak sustainability and predictor of socio-economic well-being. This paper presents the first long-term GS estimates for Norway, covering the period from 1865 until 2018. The preliminary results indicate unsustainable development throughout most of the period leading up to the Seco...
The resource curse literature has established that taxation of natural resources might
limit the long-term development of fiscal capacity in resource-rich countries. This article explores if, and how, natural resource abundance generates fiscal dependence on
natural resource revenues. We compare five peripheral economies of Latin America
(Bolivia,...
Las medidas de crecimiento económico tradicionales no han tomado en consideración las externalidades negativas de las actividades productivas. En este contexto, la llamada maldición de los recursos naturales debería ser redefinida más allá de tasas de crecimiento positivas, negativas, lentas o rápidas. El presente artículo, usando el caso de Chile...
One of the main reasons why we have failed to reach a sustainable development is due to the narrow focus on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the main development indicator. The sparsity of alternative indicators has created a misleading impression for policy makers, and society as a whole, about sustainability. In order to fulfil the new challenges...
Over recent years Genuine Savings (GS) has emerged as an indicator for weak sustainability and predictor of socioeconomic well-being. This paper presents the first long-term GS estimates for Norway, covering the period from 1865 until 2019. The preliminary results indicate unsustainable development throughout most of the period leading up to the Se...
Durante el año 2021 se ha producido un aumento significativo del precio del cobre en los mercados internacionales. Este fenómeno genera una serie de preguntas, como si este valor será sostenido en el tiempo y cómo se compara el precio actual con los valores históricos. En la presenta nota de investigación, se pone en duda la relevancia del precio a...
Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny? Are different ways to link natural resources and economic development? Using two particular regions as case studies, this edited collection examines the divergent development paths of natural resource rich countries over the past two centuries. Bolivia, Chile and Peru are neighbour states with a common histo...
Las medidas de crecimiento económico tradicionales no han tomado en consideración las externalidades negativas de las actividades productivas. En este contexto, la llamada maldición de los recursos naturales debería ser redefinida más allá de tasas de crecimiento positivas, negativas, lentas o rápidas. El presente artículo, usando el caso de Chile...
This chapter represents a comparative study of the emergence of environmental policies in the Chilean and Swedish copper industry. The chapter identifies a number of key factors which helps to explain dissimilar characteristics of actions to protect the environment in both countries as well as the timing for these actions. One key difference identi...
This chapter compares the evolution of fiscal systems in Andean and Nordic countries between 1850 and 2010. It does so through the lens of the “fiscal contract”: because tax revenues are in some degree
voluntary, citizens who pay them would expect state services in return, and have incentives and leverage to fiscalise the use of public funds. The s...
This chapter traces the main sustainability trends of the five countries analyzed in this book. The starting point is to understand sustainability as main measure of development, diminishing the role of GDP or Income. In order to address these concerns the chapter utilizes mainstream indicators such as Natural Resources Intensity and energy consump...
As a first approach to the comparison between the Andean and the Nordic countries, it is their specialisation on natural resource exportation. But even though both regions exported similar commodities at the beginning of the nineteenth century, how similar were they really? In this article, we analyse the copper exportation of Chile and Norway in o...
Chile ha sido uno de los países latinoamericanos más ricos desde el siglo XIX. Dotado de enorme cantidad de Recursos Naturales (NNRR), su crecimiento está ligado a la explotación de estos recursos y exportaciones relacionadas con el sector económico primario, pese a ello, el sector industrial ha jugado un papel relevante en este país y su desarroll...
This article analyses the energy transition of the Swedish iron and steel industry (1800–1939), a leading actor in the European iron and steel market during the 19th and 20th centuries.
This industry is an interesting case to analyse from the perspective of energy transition and the composition and change of capital stock (classified by energy tech...
The resource curse literature has established that the taxation of natural resources might limit the long-term development of fiscal capacity in resource-rich countries. This article explores if, and how, natural resource abundance generates fiscal dependence on natural resource revenues. We compare five peripheral economies of Latin America (Boliv...
Commodity prices and their secular trends are at the core of many different development theories, particularly relevant for the Latin American region, like the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, the natural resource curse theory or the somehow malthusian scarcity prediction. In this article we review the international copper price indices available in the...
Natural capital is one of the most controversial measures in current models
of economic development. Sustainability challenges of our time are related with
measuring Nature as economic value. How to measure the inputs that do not have
a clear market price? how to measure ecosystems and non cultivable land? how
to introduce these elements in our Nat...
This article analyses the particular energy transition of the Swedish iron and steel sector (1800- 1939),, a relevant actor in the European context during the nineteenth and twenteenth century. The Swedish iron and steel sector is an interesting case to analyse in the perspective of energy transition and the composition and change of the capital st...
The relationship between energy and capital is one of the most important aspects of modern economic growth. Machines need energy to produce all the goods we enjoy; energy would be far less useful for humankind in absence of machines. However, the great majority of the economic models do not take into account the elasticities of substitution (or com...
The new estimates of the Maddison Project show that GDP per capita ratio at purchasing power parity (ppp) between Bolivia and Finland has changed from 0.68 ca. 1850 to 0.16 in 2015; similarly, that between Chile and Norway from 0.65 to 0.28. The aim of this article is to present a review of the literature and available quantitative evidence to unde...
The new estimates of the Maddison Project show that the p.p.p. GDP per capita ratio between Bolivia and Finland has changed from 0.68 ca. 1850 to 0.16 in 2015; similarly, that between Chile and Norway from 0.65 to 0.28. The aim of this article is to present a review of the literature and available quantitative evidence to understand how these extre...
This chapter traces the long-run development of Genuine Savings (GS) using a panel of eleven countries during the twentieth century. This panel covers a number of developed countries (Great Britain, Germany,Switzerland, France, the US, and Australia) as well as a set of resource-abundant countries in Latin America(Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia...
Guajardo Guillermo and Labrador Alejandro , eds. La empresa pública en México y en América Latina: Entre el mercado y el estado. México DF, Mexico: UNAM/INAP, 2015. 372 pp. ISBN 978–607–02–5854-1, $16 (Spanish, paper). - Cristián A. Ducoing Ruiz
The economic development of Chile represents an interesting case of divergence and
convergence with developed countries. In the late nineteenth century, its GDP per capita
was comparable with some countries of the European periphery and far exceeded
the current developed countries of South East Asia. However, after the First World
War and particula...
We use a homogeneous method to estimate non-residential capital stock for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Our estimates extend back to the late-nineteenth century, 50 years earlier than the present available estimates. Our estimates use the gross fixed capital formation data base (1850–1950). These data are linked with existing standardised n...
The relationship between energy and capital is one of the most important aspects of modern economic growth. Machines need energy to produce all the goods we enjoy; energy without machinery is useless. However, the great majority of the economic models do not take into account the elasticities of substitution (or complementaries) between these two m...
Los paquetes estadísticos son una herramienta educativa que puede ser utilizada en la Historia Económica
con resultados favorables. En este artículo, se especifcan las potencialidades del programa open
source GRETL, exponiendo su facilidad en el manejo de bases de datos históricas y series temporales.
Conoceremos las diversas herramientas que posee...
The long run development of Chile and the Natural Resources curse. Linkages, policy and growth, 1850-1950. Abstract: This chapter analyses the effects of Natural Resources on the Chilean economy in the long run (1850-1950). Specifically, the authors focus their attention on the mining cycles (nitrates and copper) and their impact on the mining acti...
This work offers non-residential capital stock estimation for major Latin American economies – Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico - made towards a homogeneous method. This work covers the whole twentieth century and the years of the XXI century, expanding backward half century the present available estimations. Our research has the virtue of creat...
This chapter analyses the effects of Natural Resources on the Chilean economy in the long run (1850-1950). Specifically, the authors focus their attention on the mining cycles (nitrates and copper) and their impact on the mining activity. We also compare it with the evolution of the industry and whole economy, and how this has affected the economic...
Innovación y recursos docentes para la historia económica en Latinoamérica y España. Experiencias compartidas Resumen Los paquetes estadísticos son una herramienta educativa que puede ser utilizada en la histo-ria económica con resultados favorables. En este artículo, se especifican las potencialidades del programa de open source Gretl exponiendo s...
The Latin American economies began their independent histories with vast endowments of land and natural resources per person, and were for a while, more prosperous than some European nations. The gap that progressively opened between these promising lands and the Western world remains as one of the central questions of economic history and economic...
El proyecto busca dilucidar el carácter, alcance e importancia de la minería chilena en los albores de la república, puesto que la falta de estadísticas y trabajos de Historia Económica sobre este periodo no permitían tener una cabal interpretación del siglo XIX.
This work offers non-residential capital stock estimation for major Latin American
economies – Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico - made towards a homogeneous
method. This work covers the whole twentieth century and the years of the XXI
century, expanding backward half century the present available estimations. Our
research has the virtue of creat...
Resumen La base de datos his orica macroeco omica del proyecto Maddison, muestra como resultados que en el periodo comprendido entre 1875 y 1950, el nivel eco omico de América Latina, medido en términos de PIB per cápita, se mantuvo por debajo de la Europa Occidental y los países de nuevo asentamiento. Esta brecha se acortaría durante el periodo de...
Since the 1960s there has been an unceasing interest in measuring the size of the industrial sector in
Chile in the period prior to the ISI (1870 - 1930). Featured authors have attempted to quantify the weight
of industry in the country through various techniques. The most widely accepted estimate by the literature
of National Accounts comes from D...
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Pese a contar con unas de las mejores estadísticas de los países en desarrollo, existen lagunas en las series económicas de Chile, las cuales se han corregido a lo largo de los años. El trabajo conjunto de los autores ha permitido conocer las similitudes y diferencias entre una evaluación basada en las estadísticas chilenas y otra elaborada con...
Despite having the best statistics in developing countries, there are a number of gaps in Chile's economic series, which have been being corrected over the years. Our joint work has allowed knowing the similarities and differences between series made from the Chilean statistical yearbooks and official trade statistics of G-3 (Germany, USA and Great...
1 El stock de capital productivo de América Latina. 1875 – 2008 1 Xavier Tafunell Cristián Ducoing Ruiz Resumen Este trabajo ofrece una estimación del stock de capital no residencial de cuatro grandes economías de capital fijo (FBCF) entre 1850 y 1950, enlazada con las series de inversión de las Cuentas Nacionales estandarizadas por CEPAL dispon...
Durante los últimos 40 años, junto con los avances historiográficos en el ámbito de la historia económica, se ha generado un debate recurrente sobre el nivel económico de Latinoamérica durante el siglo XIX y cuál era el grado de industrialización de la región en los albores de la I Guerra Mundial. En el caso de Chile, esta pregunta está aún en vías...
The present paper revisits an old theme in Latin American and Chilean economic history; the early industrialization in the XIX - XX centuries. The difference with previous approaches is the elaboration of new quantitative series of Chilean machinery investment in the long run and its relative prices and composition, in the period when some authors...
