Yale Department of Economics

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 DepressionJoint with Macroeconomics Workshop
November 18 Noel Maurer, ITAM and Yale University, "Do Institutions Matter in Extractive Industries? The Case of Mexican Mining, 1880-1930Joint 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"