Seminars

Deception through Credible Commitment: Secret Inflationary Finance in Israel’s War of Independence

Dror Goldberg (The Open University of Israel)

The Imperfect Union: Labor Racketeering, Corruption Exposure, and Its Consequences

Miriam Venturini (University of Zurich)

Transport infrastructure improvement and domestic market integration in 19th century Spain

Guillermo Esteban Oliver (Universitat de Lleida)

Women Bankers in Nineteenth Century America?

Eugene White (Rutgers University). Chair: Anne Murphy (University of Portsmouth)

Measuring multidimensional inequality and predicting civil war, 1810–2010: a global perspective based on 156 country histories

The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany

Björn Brey (University of Oxford) and Giovanni Facchini (University of Nottingham)

Public Credit and the Financial Cycle

Victor Degorce (JRCPPF, Princeton University)

From Boom to Bust: China’s Overseas Lending

Reinhart (Harvard University), Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for World Economics and CEPR) and Sebastian Horn (Munich)

Ancient and historical evidence on inequality and institutions: Accounting for the uncertainties

Mattia Fochesato (Bocconi)

The social value of offsets

Ben Groom (University of Exeter)

Family Ties and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites in Paraguay, 1954-2003

Jorge Mangonnet (Nuffield College)

Japanese trading companies and the development of healthcare business in Asia, 1970-2020

Pierre-Yves Donzé (Osaka University)

Central Bank Losses and Lending of Last Resort

Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University) and Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics)

Wealth, health, and poverty in old age. The standard of living of people over 65 in Basel between 1925 and 1944

Joel Floris (University of Zurich)

Finance, Advertising and Fraud: The Rise and Fall of the Freedman’s Savings Bank

laire Célérier (University of Toronto) and Punoor Tak (London Business School)

Leveraging the Land Reform: Ethnic Groups and State Building in 20th century Mexico

Luz Marina Arias (CIDE- Mexico)

Persistent Specialization and Growth: The Italian Land Reform

Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati (Northwestern University), Giampaolo Lecce (University of Groningen) and Matteo Magnaricotte (Northwestern University)

Human Development as Freedom

Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

TBC

Livia Schubiger (Oxford)

Trade Imbalances or Silver Arbitrage? Anglo-Asian Bullion Flows in the Early Modern Period, 1664-1811

Pilar Nogués-Marco (University of Geneva)