Sixth CEPR Economic History Symposium
Sixth CEPR Economic History Symposium
Rome, 22-24 June 2018
Programme
Friday 22 June |
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12:30-13.45 |
Light Brunch and Registration |
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13:45-14.00 |
Welcome and Introduction |
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SESSION 1: MONETARY POLICY |
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14.00-14.40 |
Could a large-scale asset purchase programme have mitigated the Great Depression? Garo Garabedian and Rebecca Stuart* |
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14.40-15.20 |
The Causal Effect of Countercyclical Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard (Presentation) Kris Mitchener |
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15.20-15.50 |
Tea and Coffee |
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SESSION 2: CENTRAL BANKING |
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15.50-16.30 |
Monetary Policy and Counterparty Risk Management at Banque de France in late 19th Century Maylis Avaro and Vincent Bignon* |
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16.30-17.10 |
Ryland Thomas and Kilian Rieder* |
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17.10-17.50 |
Managing moral hazard in last resort lending: credit limits as "contingent rules" at the Austro-Hungarian Bank (Presentation) Clemens Jobst* and Kilian Rieder |
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17.50-18.20 |
GENERAL DISCUSSION |
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20.00 |
Dinner at Ristorante L’Archeologia Please note that a shuttle will be organised to/from the restaurant. |
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Saturday 23 June |
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SESSION 3: INCOME DISTRIBUTION |
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9.00-9.45 |
Inequality in Europe in a long term perspective (14th-19th century): evidence from real wages Giovanni Federico |
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9.45-10.30 |
Tax administration and compliance: evidence from medieval Paris (Presentation) Al Slivinski and Nathan Sussman* |
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10.30-11.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
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SESSION 4: HUMAN CAPITAL |
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11.00-11.45 |
Perfect Mechanics: Artisan Skill and the Origins of the Industrial Revolution Morgan Kelly*, Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda |
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11.45-12.30 |
Alexandra M. de Pleijt, Alessandro Nuvolari and Jacob Weisdorf* |
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12.30-13.15 |
Knowledge Elites and Modernization: Evidence from Revolutionary France Mara Squicciarini* and Nico Voigtländer |
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13.15-14.15 |
Lunch |
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SESSION 5: CAPITAL MARKETS |
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14.15-15.00 |
The Rate of Return on Everything Óscar Jordá, Katharine Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick* and Alan M. Taylor |
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15.00-15.45 |
Capital Markets and Grain Prices: Assessing the Storage Cost Approach Wolfgang Keller*, Carol H. Shiue and Xin Wang |
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15.45-16.15 |
Tea and Coffee |
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SESSION 6: WELL-BEING AND DEMOGRAPHY |
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16.15-17.00 |
Delinking Economic Growth and the Increase in Well-Being (Presentation) Auke Rijpma and Jan Luiten van Zanden* |
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17.00-17.45 |
The price of demography Federico Barbiellini Amidei*, M. Gomellini and P. Piselli |
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17.45-18.30 |
Gold and Trade: An empirical simulation approach Rui Esteves* and Florian Ploeckl |
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Sunday 24 June |
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SESSION 7: FINANCIAL CRISES |
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9.30-10.15 |
Rumors and Runs in Opaque Markets: Evidence from the Panic of 1907 Caroline Fohlin*, Thomas Gehrig and Marlene Haas |
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10.15-11.00 |
Historical Patterns of Inequality and Productivity around Financial Crises Pascal Paul |
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11.00-11.30 |
Tea and Coffee |
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SESSION 8: REGIME CHANGES |
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11.30-12.15 |
Monetary Policy Regime Changes-Political Economy and Distributional Effects Pamfili Antipa |
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12.15-13.30 |
Lunch |
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* Indicates presenter in the case of multi-authored papers |