Yale Department of Economics

Economic History Lunch, 2007-2009

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2009
February 24 Melissa Dell, MIT
March 3 Noam Yuchtman, Harvard
March 24 Ben Chabot, University of Michigan, visiting Yale
March 31 James Fenske, Yale PhD Candidate, "The Link Between Polygyny and Child Mortality: Evidence from Nigeria, 1911-2003"
April 7 Phil Slavin, Yale, Economic Growth Center Postdoc
April 14 Florian Ploeckl, Yale PhD Candidate
April 21 Jeremy Edwards, Cambridge
April 28 Veronica Santarosa, Yale PhD Candidate
September 15 Treb (David) Allen, Yale, "Agency in the Peculiar Institution: Fertility Decisions under Slavery."
September 22 Ben Chabot, Yale, "Did Robber-Barron's and Workers Share Risks? Evidence from Gilded-Age Stock Returns."
September 29 Tobias Jopp, University of Hohenheim
October 6 Veronica Santarosa, Yale, "Mitigating Asymmetric Information in Modern Financial Markets: The Bill of Exchange and the Role of the Joint-Liability Rule."
October 20 Claire Lemercier, University of Paris
November 17 Xavier Duran, Northwestern, "Formation of Expectations and the Expected Private Profitability of the First Transcontinental Railroad".
December 1 James Fenske, Yale, "The Failure of Rubber in Mid-Western Nigeria, 1897-1921"
December 8 David Cantoni, Harvard, "Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution." (with Noam Yuchtman)
2008
May 14 Florian Ploeckl, Yale University, "Borders, Market Access and Urban Growth, the Case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein in the 19th Century"
September 16 Florian Ploeckl, Yale PhD Candidate
September 30 James Fenske, Yale PhD candidate, "Factor Endowments and Institutional Development: Egba Land and Slavery, 1830-1914"
October 14 Kaj Thompson, Yale PhD candidate
October 21 Joseph Manning, Yale, Departments of Classics and History
October 28 Davide Cantoni, Harvard
November 4 Susana Martinez Rodriguez, visiting Yale
November 11 Veronica Santarosa, Yale PhD candidate
November 18 Francesca Trivellato, Yale, Department of History
December 2 Rick Hornbeck (MIT)
2007
April 4 Florian Ploekl (Yale University) "The Impact of Boundaries on the Geographical Population Structure, the Case of Saxony and the Zollverein"
April 9 Howard Bodenhorn (Lafayette College, visiting Yale) "The Political Economy of Banking Reform in Jacksonian-Era New York"
April 16 James Fenske (Yale University)
April 23 Ian Keay (Queen's University, visiting Yale)