EH Symposium 2015 - Programme
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Third CEPR Economic History Symposium
Oslo 19-20 June 2015 Programme (pdf) |
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Friday 19 June |
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08.15-08.30 |
Registration and Welcome |
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SESSION 1 – Banking |
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08.30 – 09.15 |
The Long Journey of Bank Competition: New Evidence on Italy from 1890 to 2013 |
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09.15 – 10.00 |
Global Banking and the International Transmission of the 1931 Financial Crisis |
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10.00 – 10.45 |
Taking the Lord's Name in Vain: The Impact of Connected Directors on 19th century British Banks |
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10.45 – 11.15 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION 2 – Keynote Lecture |
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11.15 – 12.15 |
Leviathan Denied: Rules, Organizations, Governments, and Social Dynamics |
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12.15 – 13.15 |
Lunch |
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SESSION 3 – Policy Session |
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13.15 – 14.00 |
The Central Bank in the Foreign Debt Food Chain: Evidence from Victorian Britain |
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14.00 – 14.45 |
1899 and the Christiania crash revisited: Crisis management and the interplay between monetary authorities in Norway over two centuries |
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14.45 – 15.15 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION 4 – Financial Market Integration |
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15.15 – 16.00 |
Contagion of Fear |
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16.00 – 16.45 |
Market and Regional Segmentation and Risk Premia in the First Era of Financial Globalization |
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17.00 |
Transportation |
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17.30 |
Guided Tour |
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19.00 |
Symposium Dinner |
Saturday 20 June |
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SESSION 5 – Financial Market Integration II |
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08.30 – 09.15 |
Debasements in Europe and their Causes, 1500-1800 |
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09.15 – 10.00 |
The making of a territorial currency in Spain. Spatial transaction costs and money market integration (1825-1874) |
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10.00 – 10.45 |
Beneath the Gold Points: European Financial Market Integration, 1844-1870 |
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10.45 – 11.15 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION 6 – Demography |
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11.15 – 12.00 |
Stature and Sibship: Evidence from Britain |
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12.00 – 12.45 |
Fetal Health Stagnation: Have Health Conditions in Utero Improved in the US and Western and Northern Europe over the past 150 years? |
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12.45 – 13.45 |
Lunch |
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SESSION 7 – Housing, Credit and Growth |
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13.45 – 14.30 |
No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012 |
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14.30 – 15.15 |
Credit cycles, business cycles and bank holdings of sovereign bonds: historical evidence for Italy 1861-2013 |
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15.15 – 16.00 |
Sovereign Debt and Supersanctions in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Four Southeast European Countries, 1878-19131 |
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16.00 – 16.30 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION 8 – Economic Growth |
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16.30 – 17.15 |
British Interwar Protectionism |
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17.15 – 18.00 |
Lewis Revisited: Tropical Polities Competing on the World Market 1830-1938 |
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18.00 – 18.30 |
Meeting of CEPR researchers to discuss future events and funding |
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Each paper has 45 minutes, speakers have 20-25 minutes for their presentation, followed by general discussion with the floor. |
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Organisers: Steve Broadberry (London School of Economics and CEPR) |
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