Seminars

Research Seminar: Jean-Pascal Bassino (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

The First East Asian Economic Miracle: Wages, Living Standards and Foundations of Modern Economic Growth in Southeast Asia, 1880-1938

Webinar in Ibero-American Economic History: Diego Sánchez Ancochea (University of Oxford)

El costo de la desigualdad en América Latina: lecciones y advertencias para el resto del mundo

IMHOS: Will Quinn (Queen's University Belfast), John Turner (Queen's University Belfast)

Riding the bubble or taken for a ride? Investors in the British bicycle mania

Webinar in Ibero-American Economic History: Andrea Montero Mora (Universidad de Costa Rica)

Los recursos naturales y los términos de intercambio en los países tropicales. Costa Rica como estudio de caso (1870-1935)

IMHOS: Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia and CEPR), Luis Roberto Martinez (University of Chicago), Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes), Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo) and Juan David Torres (Stanford University)

Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire

IMHOS: Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and CEPR), Cathrin Mohr (Bonn University), Matthias Weigand (Harvard)

The Rise of Fiscal Capacity

Research Seminar: Francesc Amat (Universitat de Barcelona)

Democratization is Calling: The Political Consequences of Telephone Networks

Webinar in Ibero-American Economic History: Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Lawrence College)

The World that Latin America Created: The UN Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era

IMHOS: Dheeraj Chaudhary (University of Maryland)

Trade, Financial Development, and Inequality: Evidence from US Railroads in the 19th Century

IMHOS: Moritz Schularick (Bonn University and CEPR), Francisco Amaral (Bonn University), Martin Dohmen (Bonn University) and Sebastian Kohl (MPIfG Cologne)

Superstar Returns

Research Seminar: Joaquín Morales Belpaire (Universidad Privada de Bolivia)

The Characteristics and Development of Popular Economy in Bolivia, 1950-2020

Webinar in Ibero-American Economic History: Erick Langer (Georgetown University)

Sistemas de transporte y contrabando de plata en los Andes Centro Meridionales en el siglo XIX

IMHOS: Roger Vicquéry (LSE)

The Rise and Fall of Global Currencies Over Two Centuries

IMHOS: Walker Hanlon (Northwestern University)

The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution

Research Seminar: Enrique Jorge-Sotelo (Universitat de Barcelona)

Fragility in central banking design: the Catalan banking crisis of 1931

IMHOS: Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics), Yannick Dupraz (University College Dublin), Justine Knebelmann (Paris School of Economics), Sandrine Mesplé-Somps (París School of Economics)

Taxation in Africa from Colonial Times to the Present. Evidence from former French colonies 1900-2018

IMHOS: Melanie Meng Xue (LSE), Boxiao Zhang (UCLA)

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action. Evidence from Imperial China

Research Seminar: Bruno Esperante (Universitat de Barcelona)

Livestock intensification, slurry management and the pollution by ammonia emissions and nitrates in Atlantic Europe (Galicia 1960-2016)

IMHOS: Oded Galor (Brown University and CEPR)

The Journey of Humanity

IMHOS: Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University and CEPR), Felix Meyerinck (University of St. Gallen) and Nick Schaub (WHU)

Inflation and Individual Investors' Behavior: Evidence from the German Hyperinflation