| 2007 |
|
| February 28 |
Metin Cosgel, University of
Connecticut, "Law and State Power: The
Institutional Roots of the Strong State in Islamic History" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| November 28 |
Catalina Vizcarra, University of
Vermont, "Guano, Credible Commitments and
Finances in 19th century Peru" |
| December 5 |
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University,
"Transportation Revolution
Revisited: Towards a New Mapping of America's Transportation Network in the 19th
Century" |
| 2006 |
|
| March 22 |
Bogart, Dan, UC Irvine, "Neighbor Effects and Institutional
Change: Evidence from Turnpike Acts in eighteenth Century England" |
| March 29 |
Scherner, Jonas, 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" |
| 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
(Visitor, Yale), "Usury
Ceilings, Relationships and Bank Lending Behavior: Evidence from Nineteenth Century New
York" |
| September 27 |
Ian Keay, Queens University-Kingston
(Visitor, Yale), "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 James, University of Virginia, "Consumption
smoothing among working-class American families before social insurance" |
| October 25 |
John Wallis, University of Maryland
(Visitor, Hoover Instituiton), "A
Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History" |
| 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" |
| November 15 |
Alan Dye, Barnard College, "Cleansing
Under the Quota: The Defense and Survival of Sugar Mills in 1930s Cuba" |
| 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", (Tables) |
| 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" |
| September 7 |
James Robinson, Harvard University,
Government, The Impact and Origins of State
Capacity in Colombia (paper abstract only is available) |
| 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" |
| 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,"
(Tables) |
| 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 Rhode, University of North
Carolina, "Manipulating Political Stock Markets:
A Field Experiment and a Century of Observational Data" |
| November 29 |
Steven Nafziger, Yale University,
Dissertation prospectus presentation: "Land Communes and Factor Market Imperfections:
Micro-Evidence from Late 19th-Century Russia" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| October 27 |
Carol H. Shiue, University of
Texas-Austin, "Markets in China and Europe on the
Eve of the Industrial Revolution" |
| 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 Olmstead, University of
California-Davis, "Tuberculous Cattle Trust: Disease
Contagion in an Era of Regulatory Uncertainty"
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" |
