Autumn Term 2024
Time: Wednesdays 1-2pm
Venue: CBG 2.06
2 October
- Yangyang Liu (LSE)
- The Holy Banks: Usury Lending by Chinese Buddhist Temples
9 October
- Joseph Enguehard (ENS de Lyon)
- The political costs of taxation
16 October
- Guohui Jiang (University of Zurich)
- No Fairness, No Cooperation: Draft Dodging by the Rich and Voluntary Enlistment in World War II
23 October
- Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat
- Value Investing in the Art Market: The Collection of the London National Gallery, 1824-1994
30 October
- Mariya Sakharova (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
- Collusion, Elites and Foreign Entities
13 November
- Kexin Feng (Caltech)
- Trade, Industrialization, and Regional Disparities during China's Warlord Era
20 November
- Benjamin Tremblay-Auger (Stanford)
- Institutions and Rapid Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Canada
27 November
- Matias Cabello (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
- Divided into progress! How Europe’s political and religious fragmentation spurred creativity: 1100—1900
4 December
- Rami Zalfou (Lund University)
- The Historical State and Economic Development: Evidence from Ottoman Syria’s Nomadic Frontier
11 December
- Greg Salter (LSE)
- The application of risk concepts to the medieval economy
Time: Wednesdays 1-2pm
Venue: CBG.1.06
22 January
- Magnus Neubert (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
- Why railways fail: Colonial railways and economic development in Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina
29 January
- Giacomo Marcolin (Northwestern University)
- The Role of Pregnancy in Gender Discrimination: Evidence from the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
5 February
- Michele Bolla (Cambridge)
- Divergence beyond GDP and real wages. An Anglo-Italian occupational comparison, 1400-1600
12 February
- Michelle Zampa (Geneva Graduate Institute)
- Janus Faces of Progress: Evaluating the dual strategy of the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno for Regional Development, 1950-1984
19 February
5 March
- Noah Sutter (LSE)
- The New Regime of the Family - Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth and the Code Napoléon in France 1791-1870
12 March
- Tianning Zhu (LSE)
- Women’s marriage migration in historical China
19 March
26 March
- Andres Irarrazaval (LSE)
- The Historical Fabric of Inequality in the Developing World: Property, Markets, or Redistribution?
2 April
- Anne Schaller (Vanderbilt)
- Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era