| 2011 |
|
| February 21 |
Richard Grossman, Wesleyan University,
"Contingent Capital and Bank
Risk-Taking: Evidence from British Equity Markets before World War I" (with
Masami Imai) |
| February 28 |
Timur Kuran, Duke University, "Structural Inefficiencies of Islamic Courts:
Ottoman Justice and Its Implications for Modern Economic Life" |
| March 21 |
Pilar Nogues-Marco, Carlos III Madrid,
"Did Bullionism Matter?:
Silver-point Mechanism and Castilian Smuggling in the Early 18th Century" |
| March 28 |
Harold James, Princeton University, "The Origins of European Monetary Integration" |
| April 4 |
Angela Redish, British Columbia, "Economics, A Model of the Monetary System of
Medieval Europe" (with Warren Weber) |
| April 11 |
Peter Zeitz, Stanford University, "Economics, Trade in Equipment and Capital
Quality: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Split" |
| April 18 |
John Wallis, University of Maryland, "Governments and States: Organizations,
Politics, and Social Dynamics" (with Douglass C. North) |
| May 2 |
Ken Snowden, UNC-Greensboro, "Repairing a Mortgage Crisis: HOLC Lending
and its Impact on Local Housing Markets in the 1930s" (with Charles
Courtemanche) |
| May 9 |
Gergely Baics, Barnard, "History, Appetite for Beef: The Quantity and
Quality of New York City's Meat Supply, 1790-1860" |
| September 12 |
Nathan Sussman, Hebrew University, "Institutions, Deficits, and Wars: The
Determinants of British Government Borrowing Costs from the End of the Seventeenth Century
to 1850" (with Yishay Yafeh) |
| September 19 |
Mark Dincecco, IMT Lucca, "Political Transformations and Economic
Performance" (with Gabriel Katz) |
| September 26 |
Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth, "Gold Sterilization and the Recession of
1937-38" |
| October 5 |
David Donaldson, MIT, "Welfare Gains
from Economic Integration: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1840-2000."
(with Arnaud Costinot) Joint with International Trade
Note: Wednesday, 2:30, Horchow Seminar Room |
| October 10 |
Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University,
"Arresting Banking Panics: Fed
Liquidity Provision and the Forgotten Panic of 1929" (with Mark Carlson and Gary
Richardson) |
| October 17 |
Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Board,
"The Prolonged Resolution of Troubled
Real Estate Lenders during the 1930s" |
| October 24 |
Gregory Clark, UC Davis, "Surnames and Social Mobility: England,
1066-2011, Sweden, 1600-2011, India, 1770-2011, Japan, 1869-2011." See also
"Ruling Classes and Under Classes:
1,000 Years of Social Mobility," sketch of a book in progress |
| October 31 |
Seven Agir, Yale, "Grain Redistribution in a Principal-Agent
Framework: Practice of ‘Mubayaa’ in Ottoman Macedonia, 1774-1838" |
| November 7 |
James Bessen, Boston University, "Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of
Task-Biased Technical Change" |
| November 15 |
Melinda Miller, U.S. Naval Academy, "‘The One Thing Needful’: Free Land
and Black Mobility, 1880-1900." Joint with Legal History, Tuesday, 4:15 pm, Law
School Faculty Lounge |
| November 28 |
Elena Frangakis-Syrett, Queens College,
CUNY, "Credit and Early Banking Practices in the Ottoman Empire: The Bank of Smyrna,
1842-43" |
| December 5 |
Gavin Wright, Stanford, "Sharing the
Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Movement in the South." "Chapter Three: Southern Business and
Public Accommodations: An Economic-Historical Paradox" and "Chapter Four: Desegregating Southern Labor
Markets" |
| 2010 |
|
| March 1 |
Veronica Santarosa, Yale, "Can Joint
Liability Solve Information Asymmetries? Evidence from Trading with Bills of
Exchange" |
| March 22 |
Marianne Wanamaker, U. of Tennessee, "Did Industrialization Cause the American Fertility
Decline? Evidence from South Carolina" |
| March 29 |
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan, "Slave Productivity in Cotton Production by Gender, Age,
Season, and Scale" (with Alan Olmstead) |
| April 12 |
Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester,
visiting Harvard, "Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land
and Immigration Policies in the New World" |
| April 26 |
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, CalTech, TBA |
| September 20 |
Nathan Sussman, Hebrew University, "Taxation Mechanisms and Growth in Medieval
Paris" |
| October 4 |
Bob Allen, Oxford University, "Technology and the Great Divergence" |
| October 11 |
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Caltech, "Inherited vs Self-Made Wealth: Theory
& Evidence from a Rentier Society" (with Thomas Piketty and Gilles
Postel-Vinay) |
| October 18 |
Veronica Aoki Santarosa, Yale,
"Financing Long-distance Trade Before Banks: The Joint Liability Rule and Bills of
Exchange in 18th-century France" |
| October 25 |
Martha Bailey, University of Michigan,
"An American Experiment In Public
Medicine: Neighborhood Health Centers And Mortality Under the War on Poverty"
(with Andrew Goodman-Bacon) |
| November 1 |
Eugene White, Rutgers University, "To Establish a More Effective Supervision of
Banking: How the Birth of the Fed Altered Bank Supervision" |
| November 8 |
Seven Agir, Yale, "Sacred Obligations, Precious Interests:
Ottoman Grain Administration in Comparative Perspective" |
| November 15 |
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College, "Predators or Watchdogs? Bankers on Corporate
Boards in the Era of Finance Capitalism" (with Carola Frydman) |
| November 29 |
Tom Nicholas, Harvard Business School,
"Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan" |
| 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" |
| September 14 |
Stephen Broadberry, The University of
Warwick, UK, "British Economic Growth,
1300-1850:Some Preliminary Estimates" |
| September 21 |
Alain Bresson, University of Chicago,
"The Origin of Lydian and Greek Coinage: Cost and
Quantity" |
| September 28 |
Jeremiah Dittmar, American University,
"Ideas, Technology, and Economic Change: The Impact
of the Printing Press" |
| October 5 |
Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University,
"The Political Economy of Saving Mothers and Babies:
The Politics of State Participation in the Sheppard-Towner Program" |
| October 12 |
James Fenske, Yale, "Does Land Abundance in Africa Explain Institutions?" |
| October 19 |
Tracy Dennison, CalTech, "Contract Enforcement in Russian Serf Society" |
| October 26 |
Phil Slavin, Yale, "How Great Was the Great Famine of 1314-22: Between Ecology
and Institutions" |
| November 2 |
Ann Carlos, University of Colorado at
Boulder, "Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights in
Early Modern England" |
| November 9 |
Oscar Gelderblom, Utrecht University,
"The Conditional Miracle: Institutional Change,
Fiscal Policy, Bond Markets, and Interest Rates in Holland, 1514-1713" |
| November 16 |
Marc Flandreau, The Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies, Geneva, "The
End of Gatekeepers: Underwriters and the Quality of Sovereign Bond Markets, 1815-2007" |
| November 30 |
Ben Chabot, Yale, "What Can Asset Prices Tell Us About Historical Business
Cycles?" |
| 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 |
Eric Hilt, 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" |
