Programme and Papers
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Second CEPR Economic History SymposiumVienna Generously supported by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank 25-26 September 2014 |
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Thursday 25 September |
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08.30 |
Welcome - Peter Mooslechner, Executive Director, OeNB |
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08.45-09.30 |
Pulling up the Tarnished Anchor: The End of Silver as a Global Unit of Account |
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09.30-10.15 |
Liquidity Management and Central Bank Strength: Bank of England Operations Reloaded, 1889-1910 |
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10.15-10.30 |
Coffee Break |
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10.30-11.15 |
Archomania. French Venality on the Eve of the Revolution |
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11.15-12.00 |
Direct measures of competition and Italian industry performance in the long run, 1900-1971 |
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12.00-13.00 |
Lunch |
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13.00-13.45 |
The Value of Economic Expertise: Keynes’ Currency Speculation and Economic Views in the 1920s and 1930s |
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13.45-14.30 |
Risk Aversion during World War II: Evidence from Belgian Lottery Bond Prices |
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14.30-14.45 |
Coffee Break |
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14.45-15.45 |
Keynote Lecture: Euro Bonds and the Politics of Market Liquidity: Lessons from the Colonial Era |
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15.45-16.00 |
Coffee Break |
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16.00-16.45 |
The Link between Fundamentals and Proximate Factors in Development |
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16.45-17.30 |
Urbanization in Europe: Regional Variations, 1700-1900 |
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18.00-19.30 |
Museum Tour: The Metropolis Experiment |
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20.00 |
Conference Dinner |
Friday 26 September |
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09.00-09.45 |
The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development |
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09.45-10.30 |
‘Keep Them Ignorant.’ Did Inequality in Land Distribution Delay Regional Numeracy Development? |
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10.30-11.15 |
Economic Freedom in the Long Run: Evidence from OECD Countries (1850-2007) |
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11.15-11.30 |
Coffee Break |
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11.30-12.45 |
OeNB History Project presentations: Time Series for 200 Years of Central Banking in Austria On Writing a Short History of the OeNB |
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12.45-13.45 |
Lunch |
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13.45-14.30 |
Egyptian and Syrian commodity markets after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire: a Bayesian VECM analysis |
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14.30-15.15 |
Anglo-Asian market integration in the early modern period (1600s-1800s): measuring price convergence for the EIC importables |
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15.15-16.00 |
China, Europe and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850 |
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16.00-16.15 |
Coffee Break |
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16.15-17.00 |
Pre-Reformation Roots of the Protestant Ethic |
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17.00-17.45 |
Human Capital and the Industrial Revolution: The market for Mechanics in Eighteenth century England |
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17.45-18.30 |
A Colonial Legacy of Gender Inequality: Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011 |
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End of Conference |
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