Eighth CEPR Economic History Symposium - Programme

Eighth CEPR Economic History Symposium

The Graduate Institute, Geneva and the University of Geneva

12-13 June 2020

Generously supported by The Graduate Institute, Geneva, the University of Geneva, the Swiss National Bank and CEPR

The spread of the coronavirus has resulted in many events around the world being cancelled, postponed or reformatted. The organisers have decided to postpone the Eighth Economic History Symposium to June 2021. We will be circulating a new Call for Papers in due course.

Programme

Friday 12 June

9:00 – 9:15     Welcome Introduction

 

SESSION 1:   INNOVATION

9:15 – 9:55     The Research University, Invention, and Industry: Evidence from Germany          1760-1900

                        Jeremiah Dittmar* (London School of Economics and CEPR) and Ralf Meisenzahl      (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

9:55 – 10:35    Napoleon’s Gift: Labor Shortages and Technology Adoption in England,              1790- 1815

   Bruno Caprettini (University of Zurich), Alex Trew (University of Glasgow) and                        Hans-Joachim Voth* (University of Zurich and CEPR)

 

10:35 – 11:00  Coffee break

 

SESSION 2:   HUMAN CAPITAL

 

11:00 – 11:40  The Great Convergence. Skill Accumulation and Mass Education in Africa           and Asia, 1870-2010

  Ewout Frankema* (Wageningen University and CEPR) and Marlous van                                 Waijenburg (University of Michigan)

11:40 – 12:20  Lineages of Scholars in pre-industrial Europe: Nepotism vs Intergenerational     Human Capital Transmission

   David De la Croix* (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain and CEPR) and Marc Goni                               (University of Vienna)

12:20 – 13:00  Was Louis XIV Wrong? Socio-Economic Consequences of Protestantism in        Early Modern France

   Cédric Chambru* (University of Zurich)

 

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch

 

SESSION 4:   COERCED LABOUR

14:00 – 14:40  Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton           Famine

   Mohamed Saleh* (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)

14:40 – 15:20  Tordesillas, Slavery and the Origins of Brazilian Inequality

   Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton University), Humberto Laudares (The Graduate                          Institute) and Felipe Valencia Caicedo* (University of British Columbia and CEPR)

15:20 – 16:00  Was Domar Right? Serfdom and Factor Endowments in Bohemia.

   Alex Klein* (University of Kent and CEPR), Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of                              Cambridge and CEPR) and Jeremy Edwards (University of Cambridge)

 

16:00 – 16:30  Coffee Break

 

SESSION 5:   TRADE AND MACRO

16:30 – 17:10  The Gravitational Constant

   David Jacks* (Simon Fraser University and CEPR), Kevin O’Rourke (NYU Abu                      Dhabi and CEPR) and Alan Taylor (University of California, Davis, CEPR)

17:10 – 17:50  The Smoot-Hawley Trade War

   Kris Mitchener* (Santa Clara University and CEPR) , Kevin O’Rourke (NYU Abu                    Dhabi and CEPR) and Kirsten Wandschneider (Occidental College and CEPR)

17:50 – 18:30  The Ends of 30 Big Depressions

   Martin Ellison (University of Oxford and CEPR), Sang Seok Lee (Bilkent                                University) and Kevin O’Rourke* (NYU Abu Dhabi and CEPR)

 

18:30 – 20:00  Walk around the lake and visit to the city [optional]

 

20:00               Dinner

 

Saturday 13 June

SESSION 6:   INSTITUTIONS AND INEQUALITY

9:00 – 9:40      Making Rules Impersonal: The Historical and Institutional Foundations of           General Laws in the United States

   Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University) and John Wallis* (University of Maryland and                  CEPR)

9:40 – 10:20    The Long-Run Economic Spillovers of Land Inequality

   Luz Marina Arias* (CIDE, Mexico City, Stanford University) and Diana Flores-                        Peregrina (University of California, Los Angeles)

10:20 – 11:00  Income Inequality and Conflict Intensification in Mandate Palestine

   Laura Panza* (University of Melbourne and CEPR) and Eik Swee (University of                    Melbourne)

 

11:00 – 11:30  Coffee Break

 

SESSION 7:   STATES

11:30 – 12:10  State Capacity in Europe and in Other Regions since 1500

   Kivanc Karaman (Bogazici University) and Sevket Pamuk* (Bogazici University           and CEPR)

12:10 – 12:50  State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China

   Joy Chen* (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)

 

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch

 

SESSION 8: MONEY AND BANKING

14:00 – 14:40  Money and Prices in Spain

   Yao Chen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Nuno Palma (University of                         Manchester, Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa and CEPR)           and Felix Ward* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute)

14:40 – 15:20  Near-money in History: Crypto-Currencies versus Bills of Exchange

   Naktarios Aslanidis (Universitat Rovira I Virgili) and Pilar Nogues –Marco*                              (University of Geneva and CEPR)

15:20 – 16:00  International Banks: Re-Agents of Globalization?

   Wilfried Kisling* (University of Oxford), Christopher Meissner (University of                            California, Davis) and Chenzi Xu (Dartmouth College)

 

16:00 – 16:30  Visit to the Graduate Institute Capital Markets Collection [optional]

 

*Speaker