| 2009 |
|
| February 23 |
Frank Lewis, Queens University,
Canada, "Capital Constraints and
European Migration to Canada in the 1920s: Evidence from the Passenger Lists"
(with Alexander Armstrong) |
| March 2 |
Leah Boustan, UCLA, "Positive Selection during the Age of Mass
Migration: Evidence from Norway" (with Ran Abramitzky and Katherine Eriksson) |
| March 23 |
Nick Crafts, LSE, "Making Sense of the Manufacturing Belt:
Determinants of U.S. Industrial Location, 1880-1920" (with Alex Klein of Warwick) |
| March 30 |
Carsten Burhop, MPI Bonn, visiting
Yale, "The Historical Market for
Technology Licenses: Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Electrical Engineering in Imperial
Germany" |
| April 6 |
Gillian Hamilton, University of
Toronto, "Economic Status and
Reproductive Success in New France" (with Greg Clark) |
| April 13 |
Regina Grafe, Northwestern, "The Rise, Persistence and Decline of Merchant
Guilds. Re-thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Pre-modern
Europe" |
| April 20 |
Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of
Cambridge, "Consumption, Social
Capital, and the ‘Industrious Revolution’ in Early Modern Germany" |
| 2008 |
|
| 14 May |
Florian Ploeckl, Yale University,
"Borders, Market Access and Urban
Growth, the Case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein in the 19th Century" |
| September 15 |
Yuru Wang, Nankai University, "Urban Wholesale Price Change and Economic
Growth in Modern China" |
| September 22 |
Toni Pierenkemper, University of
Cologne, "he Rise and Fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" [Normal Labor
Relationship] in Germany, 1840-2010" |
| September 29 |
Ben Chabot, Yale, "How Costly were the Banking Panics of the
Gilded Age?" |
| October 6 |
Melinda Miller, Naval Academy,
"The Shadow and Blight of Slavery:
Did the Advantages of Free Land for Former Slaves Persist Until the Twentieth Century?" |
| October 13 |
Latika Chaudhary, Stanford
University, "Taxation and
Educational Development: Evidence from British India" |
| October 20 |
Philip Slavin, Yale, "On Dying Cattle, Starving Humans and
Never-dying Money: The Great Cattle Plague in England and Wales, 1319-1327" |
| October 27 |
Steve Nafziger, Williams College,
"Democracy under the Tsars? The
Case of the Zemstvo" |
| November 3 |
Florian Ploeckl, Yale PhD student, "Borders, Market Access,
and Urban Growth: The Case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein in the 19th Century" |
| November 10 |
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University,
"Testing Self-Selection in
Migration: Evidence from
the Israeli Kibbutz" |
| November 17 |
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, CalTech,
"History, Geography, and the
Markets for Mortgage Loans in 19th Century France" (with Philip Hoffman and
Gilles Postel-Vinray) CANCELLED |
| December 1 |
Trevon Logan, Ohio State, visiting
Princeton, "Moveable Feasts: A
New Approach to Endogenizing Tastes" (with Paul W. Rhode) |
| December 8 |
Phil Hoffman, CalTech, "Is Trust an Ultimate Cause? Its Role in the
Long Run Development of Financial Markets in France" (with Gilles Postel-Vinay
and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal) |
| 2007 |
|
| February 28 |
Metin Cosgel, University of
Connecticut, "Law and State Power:
The Institutional Roots of the Strong State in Islamic History" (with Rasha Ahmed
and Thomas Miceli) |
| March 7 |
Rui Esteves, Simon Fraser
University, "Quis custodiet quem?
Sovereign Debt and Bondholders' Protection Before 1914" |
| March 28 |
Jim Robinson, Harvard University,
and Daron Acemoglu, MIT, visiting Yale, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and
Industry: Economic Implications of the French Revolution" |
| April 4 |
Debin Ma, London School of
Economics, "Wages, Prices and Living
Standards in China, Japan, and Europe, 1738-1925" |
| April 11 |
Aldo Musacchio, Harvard Business
School, "Stock Market
Development, Ownership Concentration, and Investor Protections in Brazil since 1890" |
| April 18 |
William Sundstrom, University of
Santa Clara, "From Quasi-private
to Quasi-public: The Development of Local Libraries in the United States, 1870-1930"
(with Michael Kevane) |
| April 25 |
Bill Summerhill, University of
California Los Angeles, "Sovereign
Credibility with Financial Underdevelopment: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Brazil" |
| October 3 |
Chris Kingston (Amherst
College), "A Broker and His
Network: Marine Insurance in Philadelphia During the Seven Years' War, 1755-1759" |
| October 17 |
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon
University, "Insurance Without Kin:
Private-Order Institutions in Gold Rush California" (with Mercy Chang) |
| October 31 |
Noel Maurer and Lakshmi Iyer,
Harvard Business School, "The Policy
of Attraction: Colonial Rule, Property Rights, and Economic Development in the Philippines" |
| November 14 |
Lee Alston, University of Colorado
at Boulder, "Electoral Fraud, the
Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina" (with Andrés A.
Gallo) |
| November 28 |
Catalina Vizcarra, University of
Vermont, "Guano, Credible
Commitments and Finances in 19th century Peru" |
| December 5 |
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University,
"The
Transportation Revolution Revisited: Towards a New Mapping of America's
Transportation Network in the 19th Century" (with Fred Bateman and Robert A.
Margo) |
| 2006 |
|
| March 22 |
Bogart, Dan, UC Irvine, "Neighbor Effects and Institutional Change:
Evidence from Turnpike Acts in Eighteenth Century England" |
| March 29 |
Jonas Scherner, Yale and Mannheim,
"Industrial Investment in Nazi
Germany: The Forgotten Wartime Boom" |
| April 5 |
Spoerer, Mark, Stuttgart-Hohenheim,
"The Laspeyres-Paradox: Tax
Overshifting in 19th Century Prussia" |
| April 12 |
Ferrie, Joseph, Northwestern
University, "A Tale of Two Labor
Markets: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850"
(Jason Long) |
| May 3 |
Hilt, Eric, Wellesley College,
"Corporate Ownership and Governance in
the Early Nineteenth Century" |
| September 13 |
Christoph Buchheim, University of
Mannheim, "What Causes Successful
Development: Insights from History" |
| September 20 |
Howard Bodenhorn, Lafayette College,
Yale Visitor, "Usury Ceilings,
Relationships and Bank Lending Behavior: Evidence from Nineteenth Century New York" |
| September 27 |
Ian Keay, Queens
University-Kingston, Yale Visitor, "Size,
Productivity, and Profitability: Canada's Natural Resource Industries in the 20th Century" |
| October 11 |
Joyce Burnette, Wabash
College, "Were Women's Wages
Customary?" |
| October 18 |
John A. James, University of
Virginia, "Consumption Smoothing
among Working-class American Families before Social Insurance" (with Michael G.
Polumbo and Mark Thomas) |
| October 25 |
John Wallis, University of Maryland,
Visitor, Hoover Instituiton, "A
Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History" (with Douglass C.
North and Barry R. Weingast) |
| November 1 |
Florian Ploeckl, Yale University,
"The Zollverein: Re-visiting the
Creation of a Customs Union" |
| November 8 |
Werner Troesken, University of
Pittsburgh, "When Bio-terrorism
Was No Big Deal" (with Patricia Beeson) |
| November 15 |
Alan Dye, Barnard College, "Cleansing Under the Quota: The Defense and
Survival of Sugar Mills in 1930s Cuba" (with Richard Sicotte) |
| November 29 |
James Fenske, Yale University,
"The Emergence, (or not) of Private
Property Rights in Land: Southern Nigeria, 1851 to 1914" [170p] |
| December 6 |
Gavin Wright, Stanford University,
"Business and the Civil Rights
Revolution in the American South: An Economic-Historical Paradox" |
| 2005 |
|
| March 23 |
David Hancock, University of
Michigan, "Excerpts from Oceans of
Wine, Empires of Commerce-Merchants into Capitalists: Madeira Wine and the Developing
Atlantic Economy, 1640-1815" |
| March 30 |
Tirthankar Roy, Yale University,
"Agricultural Labor and Economic
Transition in Colonial India: Lessons from Wage Data" |
| April 6 |
Kenneth L. Sokoloff, UCLA, "The
Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World" (with Stanley L. Engerman) |
| April 13 |
Alan Olmstead, UC Davis, "Wait a Cotton Pickin' Minute!: A New View
of Slave Productivity" (with Paul Rhode) |
| April 20 |
Leigh Shaw-Taylor, University of
Cambridge, "The Occupational Structure of
England during the Industrial Revolution 1750 to 1891" (Maps) |
| April 27 |
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, UCLA, "Wealth Concentration in a Developing
Economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994" (with Thomas Piketty and Gilles
Postel-Vinay) |
| September 7 |
James Robinson, Harvard University,
Government, "The Impact and Origins of State Capacity in Colombia" (Abstract) |
| September 14 |
Rose Razaghian, Yale University,
Political Science, "Financial
Civil War: The Confederacy's Financial Policies, 1861-1864" |
| September 21 |
Bin Wong, UCLA, History, "Another Look at Credit Markets and Investment
in China and Europe before the Industrial Revolution" (with Jean-Laurent
Rosenthal) |
| September 28 |
Paul Freedman, Yale University,
History, "Status and Scarcity"
in Fragrance, Flavor and Fashion: Spices in the Middle Ages" |
| October 5 |
Steven Nafziger, Yale University,
"Land Communes and Factor Market
Imperfections: Micro-Evidence from Late 19th-Century Russia" |
| October 12 |
Nathan Sussman, Hebrew
University/University of Western Ontario, "Income Inequality in Paris in the Heyday of the Commercial Revolution" |
| October 19 |
Anne McCants, MIT, History, "Exotic Goods, Popular
Consumption and the Standard of Living: Thinking About Globalization in the Early Modern
World" |
| October 26 |
Herbert Emery, University of
Calgary, "America’s Rejection of
Compulsory Government Health Insurance before 1930: Was it “Un-American” or
Unnecessary?" |
| November 9 |
Mauricio Drelichman, University of
British Columbia, "Sons of
Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth-Century Castile" |
| November 16 |
Paul W. Rhode, University of North
Carolina, "Manipulating Political
Stock Markets: A Field Experiment and a Century of Observational Data" (with
Koleman S. Strumpf) |
| November 30 |
Christopher Meissner, University of
Cambridge, "The Late Nineteenth
Century Trade Boom: Declining Trade Costs versus Economic Expansion" |
| December 6 |
Florian Ploeckl, Yale University,
Dissertation prospectus presentation: "Economic Impact of the Zollverein" |
| 2004 |
|
| September 29 |
Jochen Streb, Stuttgart-Hohenheim,
"Was Armament Minister Albert Speer
Really Responsible for the German "Armament Wonder" during World War II? New
Doubts Arising from the Annual Audits of the German Aircraft Producers" (with
Jonas Scherner) |
| October 6 |
Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara
University, "Technical Change and
U.S. Economic Growth: the Interwar Period and the 1990s" |
| October 13 |
Francesca Trivellato, Yale,
Department of History, "Discourse
and Practice of Trust in Business Correspondence during the Early Modern Period" |
| October 20 |
Christoph Buchheim, University of
Mannheim, "The Role of Private
Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry" (with Jonas Scherner) |
| October 27 |
Carol H. Shiue, University of
Texas-Austin, "Markets in China and
Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution" (with Wolfgang Keller) |
| November 3 |
Howard Bodenhorn, Lafayette College,
"Bank Chartering and Political
Corruption in Antebellum New York: Free Banking as Reform" |
| November 10 |
Mark Harrison, University of
Warwick, "Why Secrets? The Uses of
Secrecy in Stalin's Command Economy" |
| November 17 |
Alan L. Olmstead, University of
California-Davis, "Tuberculous
Cattle Trust: Disease Contagion in an Era of
Regulatory Uncertainty" (with Paul W. Rhode) CANCELLED |
| December 1 |
Steven Nafziger, Yale University,
"Land Redistributions and the
Russian Peasant Commune in the Late Imperial Period" |
| December 8 |
Keith Wrightson, Yale, Department of
History, "These Which Be
Participant of the Common Wealth: Class, Governance and Social Identities in Early Modern
England" |
| 2003 |
|
| March 27 |
Alan Dye, Barnard College at
Columbia University, "How
Brinkmanship Saved Chadbourne: Credibility and the International Sugar Agreement of 1931"
CANCELLED |
| April 3 |
Noel Maurer, ITAM and Yale
University, "The Central Bank as a
Tax Farmer: Porfirian Mexico, 1880-1889" |
| April 17 |
Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara
University, "Branch Banking, Bank
Competition, and Financial Stability" |
| April 24 |
Daniel Raff, University of
Pennsylvania, "What Happened at
Highland Park: A Microeconomic History of the Coming of Mass Production" |
2002 |
|
| February 28 |
Price Fishback, University of
Arizona, The Origins of Modern Housing
Finance: The Impact of Federal Housing Programs During the Great Depression (with
William Horace and Shawn Kantor) |
| March 28 |
Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College, Innovations in Intellectual Property Systems
and Economic Development |
| April 11 |
John Brown, Clark University, and Timothy
Guinnane, Yale University, "The Fertility Transition in Munich: First Results" |
| April 18 |
Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard
University, "Why the
Tariff-Growth Correlation Changed After 1950" (with Michael Clemens) |
| April 25 |
Kenneth Sokoloff, UCLA, "Inequality, Institutions, and Differential
Paths of Growth Among New World Economies" (with Stanley Engerman) |
| May 2 |
Bart van Ark, Yale Univeristy and
University of Groningen, "Technology
Regimes and Growth in the Netherlands, An Empirical Record of Two Centuries"
(with Jan Pieter Smits) |
| September 26 |
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University,
"Making a Name"
Joint with Labor and Population Workshop |
| October 8 |
Lee Ohanian,UCLA, "New
Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression" Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop |
| November 18 |
Noel Maurer, ITAM and Yale
University, "Do Institutions Matter
in Extractive Industries? The Case of Mexican Mining, 1880-1930" Joint
with Trade and Development Workshop |
| 2001 |
|
| February 28 |
Shinji Takagi, University of Osaka
and Yale University, "Japan’s Restrictive System of Trade and Payments:
Operation, Effectiveness, and Liberalization, 1950-1964" |
| March 21 |
Francesco Galassi, University of
Warwick, "My Word is My Bond: Reputation as Collateral in 19th Century
English Provincial Banking" |
| March 29 |
Robert Margo, Vanderbilt University
and Bard College, "Productivity in Manufacturing and the Length of the Working Day:
Evidence From the Census of Manufactures" |
| April 4 |
Philip Hoffman, California Institute
of Technology, "How the French Revolution Reshaped Financial Markets" |
| April 11 |
Rebecca Menes, George Mason College,
"American Government Expansion Before the New Deal: The Growth of Urban
Government 1902-1931" |
| April 18 |
Maristella Botticini, Boston
University, "A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews" |
| September 13 |
Nathan Sussman, Hebrew University, Emerging Market Spreads: Then versus Now |
| September 20 |
George Hall, Yale University, Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First
World War |
| September 28 |
Emmanuel Saez, Harvard University, Income Inequality in the United States,
1913-1998 |
| October 11 |
Melissa Thomasson, Miami University,
Exploring Racial Gaps in Infant
Mortality, 1920-1970 |
| October 18 |
Russell Court, UCLA, Nobile fratello carissimo v. Avertendo
sempre al ben fidar: The Language and Tactics of Trust in the Brignole and Sale
Family Commercial Correspondence, 1562-1584 |
| October 25 |
Mary MacKinnon, McGill University, Schooling and Income: Evidence from the
1901 Manuscript Census of Canada |
| October 29-30 |
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University,
SIMON KUZNETS LECTURES: "The Industrial Revolution: The Continuing Paradox"
October 29: "Growth and Technology in the Industrial Revolution"
October 30: "The Factory System: A Suggested Interpretation" |
| November 9-10 |
Conference, The Future of American
Banking |
| December 6 |
Rebecca Menes, George Mason
University, "Corruption in Cities:
Graft and Politics in American Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" |
