Abstract

The article seeks to quantify and evaluate the impact of the creation of the Ferrol naval factory through the study of the formation of companies in the region between the middle of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century. The analysis of these firms highlights the great expansive cycle of the second half of the XVIII century and its protagonists, as well as the change of the economic cycle in the first half of the 19th century, linking with the time series of previous researchs