Vicente Pinilla
Biographic Data
| ID | 209685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicente Pinilla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicente |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinilla |
| SIGNATURE | PINILLA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2256-8898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From net importer to global leader: Understanding the drivers of Spain’s meat export growth since the 1960s
How has Spain transitioned from historically having a relatively low meat production and being a net importer of meat in 1990 to becoming the world’s leading exporter of pork in 2020? This is the research question we aim to address in this article. In our quest for an answer, we constructed a gravity model to examine the determinants of Spanish meat exports. We posit that a significant surge in domestic meat consumption since the 1960s led to sub…
The South American meat industry during the first global economy (1860–1930)
The production, trade, and consumption of meat products and their movement around the planet were essential to the development of global markets during the first wave of globalization. This article analyzes the main changes in the ownership structure and profile of the beef industry in South America from the late nineteenth century until 1930 and how this process was reflected in certain macroeconomic variables. It provides a comprehensive analys…
Analyzing globalization through a case study of wine: The Global Wine Markets Annual Database, 1835–2023
This paper documents a new, unique annual database of global wine markets covering 1835–2023. The database expands enormously the opportunities for conducting studies on national and global wine production, consumption and trade from an historical and comparative perspective for the world as a whole and for most relevant countries. The combination of this basic information with other economic variables such as real GDP, population, total merchand…
Understanding resilience capacities in rural Agro-Industries: Evidence from Spanish wineries
Spanish wineries, deeply rooted in rural territories, are increasingly exposed to overlapping economic, environmental, and social challenges—ranging from declining consumption and rising production costs to labor shortages and climate-induced disruptions. As key actors in rural economies, their resilience is critical not only for their own sustainability but also for the vitality of the regions they support. This study analyzes the resilience cap…
An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000
This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played an essential role in the global economic and political developments. It traces how and why both countries began to fall behind during the first stages of industr…
Export boom and re-primarisation: Determining factors of a new export era in Latin American economic history
The objective of this article is to explain the characteristics of the agri-food exporting boom experienced by the Latin American countries between 1994 and 2019 and its determining factors. In so doing, we analyse the evolution of exports, their composition by product, the principal origins and destinations, the importance of regional trade agreements and the behaviour of export prices. Furthermore, a series of gravity models are estimated, usin…
Javier Puche Gil (1980-2023): Investigador, docente y persona ejemplar
To the researcher Javier Puche Gil (1980-2023): In Memoriam
Which rural settlements have lost the most population? An analysis of a case study of north-east Spain (Aragón) (1900–2001)
The aim of this article is to investigate how the characteristics of the different types of human settlements explain their demographic dynamics and, therefore, which of these have been affected to a greater extent by depopulation processes. For this purpose, we analyse the evolution of the population of Aragón (north-east Spain) in the period 1900–2001, according to the different types of population settlements that exist. Our results show that …
A Different Product? The Formation and Expansion of the International Meat and Live Cattle Market (1850–1939)
Global agro-food trade grew strongly during the first globalisation. The increase in demand, the fall in trade costs, liberal policies and technological advances explain this expansion in trade. Within this context, this study analyses the formation and evolution of the international market of a special product: meat. It is a peculiar product because it is perishable. Furthermore, it is important to point out that the increase in its trade was ba…
The shock of lockdown on the spending on wine in the Iberian market: The effects of procurement and consumption patterns
Purpose This study aims to provide a better understanding of the behaviour of wine consumers in a completely new and unexpected setting, that is, a forced lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It seeks to explain consumer decisions and the probability of changes occurring in wine expenditure compared to a normal situation. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis, conducted on a representative sample of Iberian consumers and based on t…
The Fundamental Causes of Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of the Total Factor Productivity Growth of European Agriculture, 1950-2005
In recent decades, the debate on economic growth has largely focused on the role of its fundamental causes: institutions, geography, trade, and culture. This study analyses the underlying causes of agricultural productivity growth in Europe during the second half of the twentieth century. To determine the importance of fundamental causes, Total Factor Productivity growth in European agriculture was calculated for the period 1950-2005 and several …
Appendix. The Fundamental Causes of Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of the Total Factor Productivity Growth of European Agriculture, 1950-2005
Appendix to the article The Fundamental Causes of Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of the Total Factor Productivity Growth of European Agriculture, 1950-2005 Cost shares employed to obtain agricultural TFP The construction of the agricultural openness variable The construction of the openness variable The construction of the subsidies variable Econometric test results (P-values)
Is There a Latin American Agricultural Growth Pattern? Factor Endowments and Productivity in the Second Half of the 20 Th Century
In this article, we discuss whether there was a single Latin American pattern of agricultural growth between 1950 and 2008. We analyse the sources of growth of agricultural production and productivity in ten Latin American countries. Our results show that the differences between these countries are too large to establish a single pattern for this region. However, certain common trends may be observed, such as the growing importance of labour prod…
Agricultural exports and economic development in Spain during the first wave of globalisation
The objective of this article is to study the evolution of Spanish agricultural exports, their share of agricultural production as a whole, the determinants of their expansion and, finally, the contribution that they have made to economic development. Our results show considerable dynamism in agricultural exports, which however faced certain obstacles that limited any further expansion. Their share on production varied greatly, but for some relev…
The globalization of Mediterranean agriculture: A long-term view of the impact on water consumption
The countries in the Mediterranean basin increasingly specialized in Mediterranean agricultural products for exports throughout the twentieth century. In this context, the main objective of this paper is to quantify and discuss on the impacts that this growing Mediterranean exports specialization generated on water resources over the last century. To that aim, we focus on the water embodied in Mediterranean exports, the trends followed by dams' c…
A leader in an emerging new international market: The determinants of French wine exports, 1848-1938
The objective of this article is to provide an in-depth study of France's performance in the new international wine market that began to take shape from the middle of the nineteenth century. We analyse the main determinants of its success in exporting ordinary and high-quality wine using a gravity model for both types of wine. The article shows how France lost foreign markets in the ordinary wine sector, due to difficulties in maintaining its exp…
How Argentina became a super-exporter of agricultural and food products during the First Globalisation (1880–1929)
Long Term Drivers of Global Virtual Water Trade: A Trade Gravity Approach for 1965–2010
International trade in wheat and other cereals and the collapse of the first wave of globalization, 1900–38
The aim of this article is to analyse the dynamics of international trade in cereals, primarily wheat, in the first third of the twentieth century, with a special focus on the causes of the fall in exchanges and prices that took place in the 1930s. Developments over this period are compared with the general trade in food and agricultural products. An examination of the structure of the trade in wheat, maize, and rice shows the operation of their …
The Dynamics of Latin American Agricultural Production Growth, 1950-2008
This article is the first of its kind to offer a quantitative estimation of the evolution of Latin American agricultural production and productivity between 1950 and 2008. It also uncovers the extent to which the increases in production were due to increases in factors of production or to efficiency gains. Our findings reveal that efficiency gains made a rather modest contribution to the substantial increase in production, although their role bec…
Agricultural Development in the World Periphery
Wine Globalization: A New Comparative History
The Spanish path of agrarian change, 1950-2005: From authoritarian to export-oriented productivism
The aim of this study is to determine whether the evolution of Spain's agrarian change, between 1950 and 2005, exhibits any features important enough to differentiate it from the common model of developed countries in Western Europe. On the one hand, the Spanish agrarian transformations share the main features of the changes in Western Europe: technological innovation, increased production and productivity, the diminishing importance of the agric…
The Declining Role of Latin America in Global Agricultural Trade, 1963-2000
In the second half of the twentieth century, Latin American countries lost a substantial part of their importance in worldwide exports of agricultural and food products. Given this context, the objective of this article is to analyse the determinants of the evolution of agricultural exports from Latin America, paying special attention to the influence of regional processes of economic integration on exports and to their degree of participation in…
On the causes of economic growth in Europe: Why did agricultural labour productivity not converge between 1950 and 2005
Reducing Depopulation in Rural Spain: The Impact of Immigration
The attraction of foreign‐born immigrants to rural areas in developed countries has aroused growing interest in recent years. The central issue in this study is the demographic impact of immigration in rural Spain, focusing on depopulated areas. The economic and demographic consequences of depopulation have become major concerns, and the arrival of international migrants has come to be seen as a possible solution. The aim of this study is to add …
Extreme Depopulation in the Spanish Rural Mountain Areas: A Case Study of Aragon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The phenomenon of rural depopulation has been an intense and centuries-long process in the mountain areas of Aragon in Spain. Throughout the nineteenth century, the traditional economic model of these territories broke down due to the crisis suffered by seasonal sheep migration, the non-viability of the old forms of agricultural production based on self-sufficiency and the destruction of the scattered textile industry. The new scenario offered so…
The occupational attainment of migrants and natives in Barcelona, 1930
Very few empirical studies have analysed the labour market performance of migrants in European countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article uses a rich new micro-dataset to examine the occupational attainment of migrants, mostly internal migrants, in the city of Barcelona, a key destination from the late nineteenth century onwards, adding to the literature on internal migrations in Spain during the period of industriali…
The terms of trade for agricultural and food products, 1951-2000
This study aims to answer whether empirical records confirm the existence of a secular decline in the terms of trade affecting primary producers (the Singer–Prebisch hypothesis). The paper analyses the evolution of the terms of trade for agricultural and food products in the second half of the 20 th century. We obtain sixty new real price indices for internationally traded agricultural products. We conclude, from a long-term perspective, that the…
Navigating in Troubled Waters: South American Exports of Food and Agricultural Products, 1900-1950
The objective of this article is to offer empirical evidence regarding the behaviour of the exports and relative prices of agricultural and food products from South America between 1900 and 1950. These were years of intense turbulence, which profoundly affected the countries of the region, generating a deep pessimism concerning the potentiality of the export-led development model. This study offers a new quantitative base to analyse the evolution…
Del librecambio matizado al proteccionismo selectivo: El comercio exterior de productos agrarios y alimentos en España entre 1849 y 1935
El objetivo del trabajo es el estudio del comercio exterior de productos agrarios y de algunos de sus transformados industriales en el período 1849–1935. Para ello se realiza en primer lugar un análisis de la evolutión y composición de las importaciones de productos agrarios, seguido de una reflexión sobre las razones que explican el viraje proteccionista de 1891 y sus efectos sobre dichas importaciones. La segunda sección se ocupa de estudiar cu…
The Declining Role of Latin America in Global Agricultural Trade, 1963-2000
In the second half of the twentieth century, Latin American countries lost a substantial part of their importance in worldwide exports of agricultural and food products. Given this context, the objective of this article is to analyse the determinants of the evolution of agricultural exports from Latin America, paying special attention to the influence of regional processes of economic integration on exports and to their degree of participation in…
Which rural settlements have lost the most population? An analysis of a case study of north-east Spain (Aragón) (1900–2001)
The aim of this article is to investigate how the characteristics of the different types of human settlements explain their demographic dynamics and, therefore, which of these have been affected to a greater extent by depopulation processes. For this purpose, we analyse the evolution of the population of Aragón (north-east Spain) in the period 1900–2001, according to the different types of population settlements that exist. Our results show that …
The globalization of Mediterranean agriculture: A long-term view of the impact on water consumption
The countries in the Mediterranean basin increasingly specialized in Mediterranean agricultural products for exports throughout the twentieth century. In this context, the main objective of this paper is to quantify and discuss on the impacts that this growing Mediterranean exports specialization generated on water resources over the last century. To that aim, we focus on the water embodied in Mediterranean exports, the trends followed by dams' c…
A leader in an emerging new international market: The determinants of French wine exports, 1848-1938
The objective of this article is to provide an in-depth study of France's performance in the new international wine market that began to take shape from the middle of the nineteenth century. We analyse the main determinants of its success in exporting ordinary and high-quality wine using a gravity model for both types of wine. The article shows how France lost foreign markets in the ordinary wine sector, due to difficulties in maintaining its exp…
International trade in wheat and other cereals and the collapse of the first wave of globalization, 1900–38
The aim of this article is to analyse the dynamics of international trade in cereals, primarily wheat, in the first third of the twentieth century, with a special focus on the causes of the fall in exchanges and prices that took place in the 1930s. Developments over this period are compared with the general trade in food and agricultural products. An examination of the structure of the trade in wheat, maize, and rice shows the operation of their …
The Dynamics of Latin American Agricultural Production Growth, 1950-2008
This article is the first of its kind to offer a quantitative estimation of the evolution of Latin American agricultural production and productivity between 1950 and 2008. It also uncovers the extent to which the increases in production were due to increases in factors of production or to efficiency gains. Our findings reveal that efficiency gains made a rather modest contribution to the substantial increase in production, although their role bec…
The Rainbow Coalition and the Challenge of Class; Racism and Class: A Response to Vicente Navarro
Dear Sheila Collins: I have just read your book, The Rainbow Challenge: The Jackson Campaign and the Future of U.S. Politics (Monthly Review Press, 1987). What a treat! When I started reading it I could not stop. I was so absorbed in it that I had to put aside everything else I was doing in order to finish the book. It is an excellent piece! You have put together the best written record of one of the most exciting pages of our history. As an over…
Export boom and re-primarisation: Determining factors of a new export era in Latin American economic history
The objective of this article is to explain the characteristics of the agri-food exporting boom experienced by the Latin American countries between 1994 and 2019 and its determining factors. In so doing, we analyse the evolution of exports, their composition by product, the principal origins and destinations, the importance of regional trade agreements and the behaviour of export prices. Furthermore, a series of gravity models are estimated, usin…
A Different Product? The Formation and Expansion of the International Meat and Live Cattle Market (1850–1939)
Global agro-food trade grew strongly during the first globalisation. The increase in demand, the fall in trade costs, liberal policies and technological advances explain this expansion in trade. Within this context, this study analyses the formation and evolution of the international market of a special product: meat. It is a peculiar product because it is perishable. Furthermore, it is important to point out that the increase in its trade was ba…
Is There a Latin American Agricultural Growth Pattern? Factor Endowments and Productivity in the Second Half of the 20 Th Century
In this article, we discuss whether there was a single Latin American pattern of agricultural growth between 1950 and 2008. We analyse the sources of growth of agricultural production and productivity in ten Latin American countries. Our results show that the differences between these countries are too large to establish a single pattern for this region. However, certain common trends may be observed, such as the growing importance of labour prod…
Path Dependence and the Modernisation of Agriculture: A Case Study of Aragon, 1955–85
This paper explains how technological developments and changes in production encouraged and drove the processes of agricultural modernisation that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, taking the region of Aragon in north eastern Spain as a case study. The main agricultural macro-variables reveal a surge in output, coincident with a far-reaching restructuring of production, in which livestock and animal feeds played a key role. Th…
The Rainbow Coalition and the Challenge of Class; Racism and Class: A Response to Vicente Navarro
Dear Sheila Collins: I have just read your book, The Rainbow Challenge: The Jackson Campaign and the Future of U.S. Politics (Monthly Review Press, 1987). What a treat! When I started reading it I could not stop. I was so absorbed in it that I had to put aside everything else I was doing in order to finish the book. It is an excellent piece! You have put together the best written record of one of the most exciting pages of our history. As an over…
II Encuentro sobre Didactica de la Historia Economica
El profesorado universitario dedica una parte sustancial de su tiempo a la docencia. No debería ser, por lo tanto, extraño que de la misma forma que existe una preocupación generalizada por las tareas de investigación y su continuo perfeccionamiento, la búsqueda de una mejora de la calidad de la enseñanza que se quiere transmitir a los alumnos de cualquier ciclo universitario fuera algo consustancial a quien ejerce este trabajo. Sin embargo, es b…
La producción agraria en Aragon (1850–1935)
El trabajo sintetiza la evolución de la agricultura aragonesa, distinguiendo dos períodos separados por la depresión agraria que tuvo lugar a finales del siglo XIX y que afectó seriamente al conjunto de la agricultura aragonesa. Se pone especial énfasis en establecer las características de la expansión agraria en el segundo período, el primer tercio del siglo XX, tanto en las zonas de secano como de regadío, dedicándose especial atención a las im…
Del librecambio matizado al proteccionismo selectivo: El comercio exterior de productos agrarios y alimentos en España entre 1849 y 1935
El objetivo del trabajo es el estudio del comercio exterior de productos agrarios y de algunos de sus transformados industriales en el período 1849–1935. Para ello se realiza en primer lugar un análisis de la evolutión y composición de las importaciones de productos agrarios, seguido de una reflexión sobre las razones que explican el viraje proteccionista de 1891 y sus efectos sobre dichas importaciones. La segunda sección se ocupa de estudiar cu…
Extreme Depopulation in the Spanish Rural Mountain Areas: A Case Study of Aragon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The phenomenon of rural depopulation has been an intense and centuries-long process in the mountain areas of Aragon in Spain. Throughout the nineteenth century, the traditional economic model of these territories broke down due to the crisis suffered by seasonal sheep migration, the non-viability of the old forms of agricultural production based on self-sufficiency and the destruction of the scattered textile industry. The new scenario offered so…
Path Dependence and the Modernisation of Agriculture: A Case Study of Aragon, 1955–85
This paper explains how technological developments and changes in production encouraged and drove the processes of agricultural modernisation that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, taking the region of Aragon in north eastern Spain as a case study. The main agricultural macro-variables reveal a surge in output, coincident with a far-reaching restructuring of production, in which livestock and animal feeds played a key role. Th…
The terms of trade for agricultural and food products, 1951-2000
This study aims to answer whether empirical records confirm the existence of a secular decline in the terms of trade affecting primary producers (the Singer–Prebisch hypothesis). The paper analyses the evolution of the terms of trade for agricultural and food products in the second half of the 20 th century. We obtain sixty new real price indices for internationally traded agricultural products. We conclude, from a long-term perspective, that the…
Reducing Depopulation in Rural Spain: The Impact of Immigration
The attraction of foreign‐born immigrants to rural areas in developed countries has aroused growing interest in recent years. The central issue in this study is the demographic impact of immigration in rural Spain, focusing on depopulated areas. The economic and demographic consequences of depopulation have become major concerns, and the arrival of international migrants has come to be seen as a possible solution. The aim of this study is to add …
The effect of globalisation on water consumption: A case study of the Spanish virtual water trade, 1849–1935
The water footprint of the Spanish agricultural sector: 1860–2010
On the causes of economic growth in Europe: Why did agricultural labour productivity not converge between 1950 and 2005
Navigating in Troubled Waters: South American Exports of Food and Agricultural Products, 1900-1950
The objective of this article is to offer empirical evidence regarding the behaviour of the exports and relative prices of agricultural and food products from South America between 1900 and 1950. These were years of intense turbulence, which profoundly affected the countries of the region, generating a deep pessimism concerning the potentiality of the export-led development model. This study offers a new quantitative base to analyse the evolution…
The occupational attainment of migrants and natives in Barcelona, 1930
Very few empirical studies have analysed the labour market performance of migrants in European countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article uses a rich new micro-dataset to examine the occupational attainment of migrants, mostly internal migrants, in the city of Barcelona, a key destination from the late nineteenth century onwards, adding to the literature on internal migrations in Spain during the period of industriali…
The Declining Role of Latin America in Global Agricultural Trade, 1963-2000
In the second half of the twentieth century, Latin American countries lost a substantial part of their importance in worldwide exports of agricultural and food products. Given this context, the objective of this article is to analyse the determinants of the evolution of agricultural exports from Latin America, paying special attention to the influence of regional processes of economic integration on exports and to their degree of participation in…
Agricultural Development in the World Periphery
Wine Globalization: A New Comparative History
The Spanish path of agrarian change, 1950-2005: From authoritarian to export-oriented productivism
The aim of this study is to determine whether the evolution of Spain's agrarian change, between 1950 and 2005, exhibits any features important enough to differentiate it from the common model of developed countries in Western Europe. On the one hand, the Spanish agrarian transformations share the main features of the changes in Western Europe: technological innovation, increased production and productivity, the diminishing importance of the agric…
How Argentina became a super-exporter of agricultural and food products during the First Globalisation (1880–1929)
Long Term Drivers of Global Virtual Water Trade: A Trade Gravity Approach for 1965–2010
International trade in wheat and other cereals and the collapse of the first wave of globalization, 1900–38
The aim of this article is to analyse the dynamics of international trade in cereals, primarily wheat, in the first third of the twentieth century, with a special focus on the causes of the fall in exchanges and prices that took place in the 1930s. Developments over this period are compared with the general trade in food and agricultural products. An examination of the structure of the trade in wheat, maize, and rice shows the operation of their …
The Dynamics of Latin American Agricultural Production Growth, 1950-2008
This article is the first of its kind to offer a quantitative estimation of the evolution of Latin American agricultural production and productivity between 1950 and 2008. It also uncovers the extent to which the increases in production were due to increases in factors of production or to efficiency gains. Our findings reveal that efficiency gains made a rather modest contribution to the substantial increase in production, although their role bec…
A leader in an emerging new international market: The determinants of French wine exports, 1848-1938
The objective of this article is to provide an in-depth study of France's performance in the new international wine market that began to take shape from the middle of the nineteenth century. We analyse the main determinants of its success in exporting ordinary and high-quality wine using a gravity model for both types of wine. The article shows how France lost foreign markets in the ordinary wine sector, due to difficulties in maintaining its exp…
Agricultural exports and economic development in Spain during the first wave of globalisation
The objective of this article is to study the evolution of Spanish agricultural exports, their share of agricultural production as a whole, the determinants of their expansion and, finally, the contribution that they have made to economic development. Our results show considerable dynamism in agricultural exports, which however faced certain obstacles that limited any further expansion. Their share on production varied greatly, but for some relev…
The globalization of Mediterranean agriculture: A long-term view of the impact on water consumption
The countries in the Mediterranean basin increasingly specialized in Mediterranean agricultural products for exports throughout the twentieth century. In this context, the main objective of this paper is to quantify and discuss on the impacts that this growing Mediterranean exports specialization generated on water resources over the last century. To that aim, we focus on the water embodied in Mediterranean exports, the trends followed by dams' c…
The shock of lockdown on the spending on wine in the Iberian market: The effects of procurement and consumption patterns
Purpose This study aims to provide a better understanding of the behaviour of wine consumers in a completely new and unexpected setting, that is, a forced lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It seeks to explain consumer decisions and the probability of changes occurring in wine expenditure compared to a normal situation. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis, conducted on a representative sample of Iberian consumers and based on t…
Geography (27 works) · Economics (25 works) · Agriculture (18 works) · Political science (13 works) · Agricultural economics (12 works) · Business (12 works) · International trade (12 works) · Global trade and economics (10 works) · Globalization (9 works) · International economics (9 works)