Doing Business with Strangers:
Finance and Enterprise in the Preindustrial World
May 1-2, 2015
Whitney Humanities Center
Room 208
53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511
The conference is free and open to the public.
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All papers are password protected.
Conference Program
Friday May 1, 2015
1-3pm
Chair: Joseph G. Manning (Classics and History, Yale)
Discussant: Francesca Trivellato (History, Yale)
Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman, Vanderbilt University
Balancing One’s Obligations Between God and Mammon:
Law and Mercantile Practice Among the Geniza Merchants
Bruce S. Hall (History, Duke University)
Salt, Slavery, and Credit in the Functioning of Saharan Commerce
Coffee Break
3:30-5:30pm
Chair: Eric Hilt (Economics, Yale and Wellesley)
Discussant: Christopher Udry (Economics, Yale)
Cihan Artunç (Economics, University of Arizona)
Firm Organization in Egypt between 1910 and 1949: Evidence from the Mixed Courts
Madeleine Zelin (History, Columbia University)
Local Knowledge: Explorations in China's Encounter with the Modern Company
6:00pm
Dinner - invitation only
Saturday May 2, 2015
9:30-12
Chair: José-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Economics, Yale)
Discussant: Naomi Lamoreaux (Economics and History, Yale)
Lutz Kaelber (Sociology, University of Vermont)
Financing Business: Max Weber on Equity and Debt in Medieval Partnerships
Yadira González de Lara (Economics, University of Valencia)
The Impact of Formal Monitoring on Financial Development:
From Debt to Equity in Late Medieval Venice
Nadia Matringe (History, CNRS-Paris)
Credit Reallocation & the Financing of International Trade:
Deposit Banking in Sixteenth-Century Lyons
Lunch
1-3:30pm
Chair: Timothy Guinanne (Economics, Yale)
Discussant: Philip Hoffman (Economics, Caltech)
Bram Van Hofstraeten (History, Maastricht University)
Opting for Private Partnerships in Early Modern Antwerp (1480-1620)
Joost Jonker (History, Utrecht University) and
Oscar Gelderblom (History, Utrecht University)
Direct Finance in the Dutch Golden Age
Jessica Hanser (History, Yale-NUS)
The Canton Debts Crisis, 1779-81
6:00pm
Dinner - invitation only
With the generous support of the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the European Studies Council at MacMillan, the Program in Economic History at Yale, The Whitney Humanities Center and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).