Eighth CEPR Economic History Symposium - Programme
Eighth CEPR Economic History Symposium
2-4 June 2021, Online
14:00 – 17:30 BST, 15:00 – 18:30 CEST, 09:00 – 12:30 EDT, 06:00 – 9:30 PDT, 21:00 – 00:30 HKT, 23:00 – 02:30 AEST
Generously supported by The Graduate Institute, Geneva, the University of Geneva, the Swiss National Bank and CEPR
Programme
*All timings below are listed in BST, London time.
Wednesday 2 June
14:00 – 14.10 Welcome Introduction - Beatrice Weder di Mauro (The Graduate Institute of Geneva, INSEAD and President of CEPR) and Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford and CEPR)
SESSION 1: HUMAN CAPITAL AND RELIGION (Chair: Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford and CEPR)
14.10 – 14.40 Ecclesiastical Power, Religiosity and Persecutions over 800 Years
Umair Khalil (Monash University) and Laura Panza* (University of Melbourne and CEPR)
14.40 – 15.10 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* (Norwegian School of Economics)
15.10 – 15.40 Was Louis XIV Wrong? Socio-Economic Consequences of Protestantism in Early Modern France
Cédric Chambru* (University of Zurich)
15.40 – 16:00 Coffee break
SESSION 2: HUMAN CAPITAL AND EXPLOITATION (Chair: Martina Viarengo, The Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR)
16:00 – 16.30 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)
16.30 – 17.00 Exploitation and Industrialization
Hans-Joachim Voth* (University of Zurich and CEPR)
17.00 – 17.30 The Skill Revolution in Africa and Asia, c. 1870-2010
Ewout Frankema* (Wageningen University and CEPR) and Marlous van Waijenburg (University of Michigan)
Eighth CEPR Economic History Symposium
14:00 – 17:30 BST, 15:00 – 18:30 CEST, 09:00 – 12:30 EDT, 06:00 – 9:30 PDT, 21:00 – 00:30 HKT, 23:00 – 02:30 AEST
Thursday 3 June
14:00 – 14.10 Introduction
SESSION 3: STATE CAPACITY AND INSTITUTIONS (Chair: Nathan Sussman, The Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR)
14.10 – 14.40 State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China - Presentation Slides
Joy Chen* (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
14.40 – 15.10 State Capacity in Europe and in Other Regions since 1500
Kivanc Karaman (Bogazici University) and Sevket Pamuk* (Bogazici University and CEPR)
15.10 – 15.40 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)
15.40 – 16:00 Coffee break
SESSION 4: TRADE AND DEPRESSIONS (Chair: Rui Esteves, The Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR)
16.00 – 16.30 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)
16.30 – 17.00 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 and CEPR)
17.00 – 17.30 The Smoot-Hawley Trade War
Kirsten Wandschneider* (University of Vienna and CEPR), Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University and CEPR), Kevin O’Rourke (NYU Abu Dhabi and CEPR)
Eighth CEPR Economic History Symposium
14:00 – 17:30 BST, 15:00 – 18:30 CEST, 09:00 – 12:30 EDT, 06:00 – 9:30 PDT, 21:00 – 00:30 HKT, 23:00 – 02:30 AEST
Friday 4 June
14:00 – 14.10 Welcome Introduction
SESSION 5: MONEY AND POWER (Chair: Pilar Nogues-Marco, University of Geneva and CEPR)
14.10 – 14.40 Intra-Elite Conflict and the demand for Power Sharing: Evidence from Khedival Egypt
Mohamed Saleh* (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR) and Allison Hartnett (University of Southern California)
14.40 – 15.10 Reconstruction of the Spanish Money Supply, 1492-1810
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)
15.10 – 15.40 International Banks: Re-Agents of Globalization?
Wilfried Kisling* (University of Oxford), Christopher Meissner (University of California, Davis) and Chenzi Xu (Dartmouth College)
15.40 – 16:00 Coffee break
SESSION 6: INEQUALITY AND FACTOR ENDOWMENTS (Chair: Juan Flores, University of Geneva)
16:00 – 16.30 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)
16.30 – 17.00 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)
17.00 – 17.30 The Mixed Legacy of Colonial Rural Estates in Mexico
Luz Marina Arias* (CASBS, Stanford University and CIDE) and Diana Flores-Peregrina (University of California, Los Angeles)
*Each presentation slot will consist of a 20 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute Q&A for each paper.
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwocequrD0uHNEWh5KRC6mWThX8wtGgDfR_