Laura Panza
Biographic Data
| ID | 978906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Panza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Panza |
| SIGNATURE | PANZA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1454-4669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historical Anti-Fascism and Right-Wing Voting in Italy
We study how anti-fascist opposition during Mussolini’s dictatorship affects post-war support for right-wing parties in Italy. We construct a measure of anti-fascism from the universe of recorded opponents, and use newly digitized historical data to resolve simultaneity between the supply of opposition and the demand for repression, leveraging the random assignment of judges to the Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State. Stronger local opp…
Atlantic Trade and Conflict in Europe
We use over 200 years of conflict and wheat price data to provide the first quantitative evidence that Atlantic trade reduced conflict in Europe. While other determinants of intra-European conflict during the Early to Late Modern period have been proposed, the role of Atlantic trade has not been previously explored due to a lack of historical trade data. We overcome this constraint by using wheat prices to calculate time-varying measures of price…
Nation-Building and Mass Migration: Evidence From Mandatory Palestine
From a common empire to colonial rule: Commodity market disintegration in the Near East
This paper investigates the impact of the disruption of the Ottoman Empire on the integration of regional and colonial commodity markets in the Near East. Exploiting a novel dataset on commodity prices in Syria, Egypt, Turkey, France, and the United Kingdom covering the 1787-1939 period, it assesses the extent of price dispersion across markets before and after the end of the Ottoman Empire and investigates the causes behind the change in market …
Always egalitarian? Australian earnings inequality 1870–1910
We document the origins of Australia's egalitarianism by quantifying both the level and trends of earnings inequality during 1870–1910 by constructing social tables for earnings, thus overcoming the constraints imposed by the lack of income, tax and wealth data. We find that earnings inequality was much lower in Australia than in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1870 and that there was no rise in Australian earnings inequality over the…
Tracking the impact of Covid-19 in Victoria, Australia: Shocks, vulnerability and insurances among residents of share houses
Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: The Role of Irrigation, Drainage, New Seeds, and Access to Credit
After experiencing a period of spectacular growth during the late nineteenth century, the Egyptian cotton sector underwent a phase of stagnation, which was followed by a gradual and steady increase in output during the interwar period. Drawing on a new panel dataset at the province-year level, this article explores the determinants of the upturn in cotton output, running a horserace between credit, seed technology, and infrastructure. In order to…
The impact of ethnic segregation on schooling outcomes in Mandate Palestine
Does social mix reduce stigma in public housing? A comparative analysis of two housing estates in Melbourne
Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica
The evolution of ottoman–European market linkages, 1469–1914: Evidence from dynamic factor models
Hidden in plain sight: Correspondent banking in the 1930s
We present novel quantitative evidence on the number and location of correspondent banking relationships in the 1930s, a neglected area of international banking. Our data, collected from Thomas Skinners’ Bankers’ Almanac, captures over 2000 correspondent banking connections primarily based on London and New York and a smaller cohort of multinational banks. We draw on the new institutional economics and international business literature to explain…
Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie, 1821-71
Compared with its competitors, Australian GDP per worker grew exceptionally quickly from the 1820s to the 1870s, at a rate about twice that of the US and three times that of Britain. Did this rapid growth produce rising inequality, following a Kuznets curve? Using a novel dataset, this article offers new evidence that provides unambiguous support for the view that, in sharp contrast with the US experience and with globalization-inequality views c…
The drivers of firm longevity: Age, size, profitability and survivorship of Australian corporations, 1901–1930
Why do some firms last longer than others? This question has attracted considerable interest among scholars from business history, management and economics. Our article combines the business historian’s macro view of the relationship between size, longevity, and economic development with quantitative modelling. We apply survival analysis to data relating to size, age and profitability, three first-order explanations of longevity, for Australian s…
Industrialization in Egypt and Turkey, 1870–2010
This chapter examines the industrial performance of Egypt and Turkey during four periods: 1870 to the First World War under open economy conditions; the inter-war era when industrialization began with the help of protection; the decades after the Second World War when the import-substituting industrialization model was adopted and rates of industrialization peaked; and trade liberalization since 1980. Per capita incomes were similar in Egypt and …
Did Muhammad Ali foster industrialization in early nineteenth-century Egypt
Muhammad Ali, who ruled Egypt between 1805 and 1849, intervened in Egyptian markets in an attempt to foster industrialization, especially between 1812 and 1840. Like a modern marketing board, the state purchased agricultural commodities (cotton and wheat) at low prices and sold them on world markets at much higher prices, a policy equivalent to an export tax. Ali also replaced tax farming with his own land taxes. The revenues so derived were used…
De-industrialization and re-industrialization in the Middle East: Reflections on the cotton industry in Egypt and in the Izmir region
This article presents an investigation of the process of decline and rebirth of textile manufacturing in two Middle Eastern regions, Egypt and the Izmir region, during the first wave of globalization (1850-1914). Through the application of the 'Dutch disease' model, it explores the linkages between terms of trade and industrialization. These are further related to the evolution of price transmission between domestic and global raw cotton markets.…
Globalization and the Near East: A Study of Cotton Market Integration in Egypt and Western Anatolia
The Near East underwent a process of integration with the global economy during the second half of the nineteenth century. This article explores one aspect of this process, examining the linkages established between the cotton industries in Egypt and Western Anatolia, and the international cotton market during the first wave of globalization. We undertake a quantitative exploration of the pattern of price transmission between the Near East and th…
Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica
De-industrialization and re-industrialization in the Middle East: Reflections on the cotton industry in Egypt and in the Izmir region
This article presents an investigation of the process of decline and rebirth of textile manufacturing in two Middle Eastern regions, Egypt and the Izmir region, during the first wave of globalization (1850-1914). Through the application of the 'Dutch disease' model, it explores the linkages between terms of trade and industrialization. These are further related to the evolution of price transmission between domestic and global raw cotton markets.…
Globalization and the Near East: A Study of Cotton Market Integration in Egypt and Western Anatolia
The Near East underwent a process of integration with the global economy during the second half of the nineteenth century. This article explores one aspect of this process, examining the linkages established between the cotton industries in Egypt and Western Anatolia, and the international cotton market during the first wave of globalization. We undertake a quantitative exploration of the pattern of price transmission between the Near East and th…
Tracking the impact of Covid-19 in Victoria, Australia: Shocks, vulnerability and insurances among residents of share houses
The drivers of firm longevity: Age, size, profitability and survivorship of Australian corporations, 1901–1930
Why do some firms last longer than others? This question has attracted considerable interest among scholars from business history, management and economics. Our article combines the business historian’s macro view of the relationship between size, longevity, and economic development with quantitative modelling. We apply survival analysis to data relating to size, age and profitability, three first-order explanations of longevity, for Australian s…
Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: The Role of Irrigation, Drainage, New Seeds, and Access to Credit
After experiencing a period of spectacular growth during the late nineteenth century, the Egyptian cotton sector underwent a phase of stagnation, which was followed by a gradual and steady increase in output during the interwar period. Drawing on a new panel dataset at the province-year level, this article explores the determinants of the upturn in cotton output, running a horserace between credit, seed technology, and infrastructure. In order to…
Does social mix reduce stigma in public housing? A comparative analysis of two housing estates in Melbourne
Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie, 1821-71
Compared with its competitors, Australian GDP per worker grew exceptionally quickly from the 1820s to the 1870s, at a rate about twice that of the US and three times that of Britain. Did this rapid growth produce rising inequality, following a Kuznets curve? Using a novel dataset, this article offers new evidence that provides unambiguous support for the view that, in sharp contrast with the US experience and with globalization-inequality views c…
Hidden in plain sight: Correspondent banking in the 1930s
We present novel quantitative evidence on the number and location of correspondent banking relationships in the 1930s, a neglected area of international banking. Our data, collected from Thomas Skinners’ Bankers’ Almanac, captures over 2000 correspondent banking connections primarily based on London and New York and a smaller cohort of multinational banks. We draw on the new institutional economics and international business literature to explain…
Did Muhammad Ali foster industrialization in early nineteenth-century Egypt
Muhammad Ali, who ruled Egypt between 1805 and 1849, intervened in Egyptian markets in an attempt to foster industrialization, especially between 1812 and 1840. Like a modern marketing board, the state purchased agricultural commodities (cotton and wheat) at low prices and sold them on world markets at much higher prices, a policy equivalent to an export tax. Ali also replaced tax farming with his own land taxes. The revenues so derived were used…
The impact of ethnic segregation on schooling outcomes in Mandate Palestine
The evolution of ottoman–European market linkages, 1469–1914: Evidence from dynamic factor models
Globalization and the Near East: A Study of Cotton Market Integration in Egypt and Western Anatolia
The Near East underwent a process of integration with the global economy during the second half of the nineteenth century. This article explores one aspect of this process, examining the linkages established between the cotton industries in Egypt and Western Anatolia, and the international cotton market during the first wave of globalization. We undertake a quantitative exploration of the pattern of price transmission between the Near East and th…
De-industrialization and re-industrialization in the Middle East: Reflections on the cotton industry in Egypt and in the Izmir region
This article presents an investigation of the process of decline and rebirth of textile manufacturing in two Middle Eastern regions, Egypt and the Izmir region, during the first wave of globalization (1850-1914). Through the application of the 'Dutch disease' model, it explores the linkages between terms of trade and industrialization. These are further related to the evolution of price transmission between domestic and global raw cotton markets.…
Did Muhammad Ali foster industrialization in early nineteenth-century Egypt
Muhammad Ali, who ruled Egypt between 1805 and 1849, intervened in Egyptian markets in an attempt to foster industrialization, especially between 1812 and 1840. Like a modern marketing board, the state purchased agricultural commodities (cotton and wheat) at low prices and sold them on world markets at much higher prices, a policy equivalent to an export tax. Ali also replaced tax farming with his own land taxes. The revenues so derived were used…
Industrialization in Egypt and Turkey, 1870–2010
This chapter examines the industrial performance of Egypt and Turkey during four periods: 1870 to the First World War under open economy conditions; the inter-war era when industrialization began with the help of protection; the decades after the Second World War when the import-substituting industrialization model was adopted and rates of industrialization peaked; and trade liberalization since 1980. Per capita incomes were similar in Egypt and …
The drivers of firm longevity: Age, size, profitability and survivorship of Australian corporations, 1901–1930
Why do some firms last longer than others? This question has attracted considerable interest among scholars from business history, management and economics. Our article combines the business historian’s macro view of the relationship between size, longevity, and economic development with quantitative modelling. We apply survival analysis to data relating to size, age and profitability, three first-order explanations of longevity, for Australian s…
Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica
The evolution of ottoman–European market linkages, 1469–1914: Evidence from dynamic factor models
Hidden in plain sight: Correspondent banking in the 1930s
We present novel quantitative evidence on the number and location of correspondent banking relationships in the 1930s, a neglected area of international banking. Our data, collected from Thomas Skinners’ Bankers’ Almanac, captures over 2000 correspondent banking connections primarily based on London and New York and a smaller cohort of multinational banks. We draw on the new institutional economics and international business literature to explain…
Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie, 1821-71
Compared with its competitors, Australian GDP per worker grew exceptionally quickly from the 1820s to the 1870s, at a rate about twice that of the US and three times that of Britain. Did this rapid growth produce rising inequality, following a Kuznets curve? Using a novel dataset, this article offers new evidence that provides unambiguous support for the view that, in sharp contrast with the US experience and with globalization-inequality views c…
The impact of ethnic segregation on schooling outcomes in Mandate Palestine
Does social mix reduce stigma in public housing? A comparative analysis of two housing estates in Melbourne
Always egalitarian? Australian earnings inequality 1870–1910
We document the origins of Australia's egalitarianism by quantifying both the level and trends of earnings inequality during 1870–1910 by constructing social tables for earnings, thus overcoming the constraints imposed by the lack of income, tax and wealth data. We find that earnings inequality was much lower in Australia than in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1870 and that there was no rise in Australian earnings inequality over the…
Tracking the impact of Covid-19 in Victoria, Australia: Shocks, vulnerability and insurances among residents of share houses
Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: The Role of Irrigation, Drainage, New Seeds, and Access to Credit
After experiencing a period of spectacular growth during the late nineteenth century, the Egyptian cotton sector underwent a phase of stagnation, which was followed by a gradual and steady increase in output during the interwar period. Drawing on a new panel dataset at the province-year level, this article explores the determinants of the upturn in cotton output, running a horserace between credit, seed technology, and infrastructure. In order to…
Nation-Building and Mass Migration: Evidence From Mandatory Palestine
From a common empire to colonial rule: Commodity market disintegration in the Near East
This paper investigates the impact of the disruption of the Ottoman Empire on the integration of regional and colonial commodity markets in the Near East. Exploiting a novel dataset on commodity prices in Syria, Egypt, Turkey, France, and the United Kingdom covering the 1787-1939 period, it assesses the extent of price dispersion across markets before and after the end of the Ottoman Empire and investigates the causes behind the change in market …
Atlantic Trade and Conflict in Europe
We use over 200 years of conflict and wheat price data to provide the first quantitative evidence that Atlantic trade reduced conflict in Europe. While other determinants of intra-European conflict during the Early to Late Modern period have been proposed, the role of Atlantic trade has not been previously explored due to a lack of historical trade data. We overcome this constraint by using wheat prices to calculate time-varying measures of price…
Historical Anti-Fascism and Right-Wing Voting in Italy
We study how anti-fascist opposition during Mussolini’s dictatorship affects post-war support for right-wing parties in Italy. We construct a measure of anti-fascism from the universe of recorded opponents, and use newly digitized historical data to resolve simultaneity between the supply of opposition and the demand for repression, leveraging the random assignment of judges to the Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State. Stronger local opp…
Economics (16 works) · Geography (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Market economy (8 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economy (5 works) · Law (5 works)