Programme

Thursday 9 June

Welcome and Introduction by Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor for Central Banking

SESSION 1: EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES

Pegxit: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University and CEPR (with Gonçalo Pina)

The Demise of the Bretton Woods System: A Quantitative Assessment
Gernot Müller, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and CEPR (with Alexander Kriwoluzky and Martin Wolf)

Tea and Coffee

SESSION 2: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Agglomeration Economies and Productivity Growth: U.S. Cities, 1880-1930
Alexander Klein, University of Kent (with Nicholas Crafts)

Bones, Bacteria and Break Points: The Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of the Black Death and Long-Run Growth
Remi Jedwab, George Washington University (with Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama)

Lunch

SESSION 3: MONEY AND FINANCE

Doomed to Disappear? The Surprising Resilience of Cash in an International and Historical Perspective
Clemens Jobst Oesterreichische Nationalbank and CEPR, (with Helmut Stix)

Politics, Balance of Interests and the Conversion of French Sovereign Bonds
Kim Oosterlinck, Université Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR (with Loredana Ureche-Rangau and Jacques-Marie Vaslin)

The Effects of Monetary Policy: Lessons from Quasi-Randomized Experiments
Alan M. Taylor, University of California and CEPR (with Òscar Jordà and Moritz Schularick)

Tea and Coffee

SESSION 4: THE ANCIENT WORLD

A Model of the Beginnings of Coinage in Antiquity
Jacques Melitz, Heriot-Watt University and CEPR 

Of Mice and Merchants: Trade and Growth in the Iron Age
Ferdinand Rauch, University of Oxford and CEPR (with Stephen Maurer, Jōrn Steffen Pischke)

17:45-18:00

Break

SESSION 5: CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND RESEARCH
                     UK Shocks and Irish Business Cycles, 1922-1979
                     Rebecca Stuart

Friday 10 June

SESSION 6: ECONOMIC GROWTH

Market Potential and Global Growth over the Long Twentieth Century
David Jacks, Simon Fraser University (with Dennis Novy)

Rebasing Maddison: New Relative Prices and the Shape of Long-Run Global Development
Jan Luiten van Zanden, University of Utrecht and CEPR (Jutta Bolt, Robert Inklaar and Herman de Jong)

Tea and Coffee

SESSION 7: CHINA

Foreigners Knocking on the Door: Trade in China During the Treaty Port Era
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado and CEPR (with Javier Andres Santiago and Carol Shiue)

Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis with Five Linked Generations in China, 1300-1900
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado and CEPR 

Lunch

SESSION 8: HUMAN CAPITAL

The Evolution of Human Capital in Africa, 1730 – 1970: a Colonial Legacy?
Joerg Baten, University of Tuebingen and CEPR (with Gabriele Capelli) 

Roots of the Industrial Revolution
Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin and CEPR (with Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda)

The Cost of Decentralization: Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Francesco Cinnirella, IFO Institute for Economic Research and CEPR (with Ruth Schueler)

Tea and Coffee

SESSION 9: RELIGION AND THE ECONOMY

Religion, Division of Labour and Conflict
Sascha Becker, University of Warwick and CEPR  (with Luigi Pascali)

State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany
Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Board (with Jeremiah Dittmar)