EHES ISTANBUL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME |
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| Day I : Friday, September 9 | Ottoman Bank Museum | |
| 9.15-10.30 | Grand Room | Opening Session / Chair : Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici, Istanbul) |
| Patrick O'Brien (LSE) | “The Formation of a Mercantilist State and the Economic Growth of the United Kingdom 1453-1815” | |
| 10.30-10.45 | Coffee | |
| 10.45-12.15 | ||
| Session 1 | Grand Room | Growth in the European Periphery / Chair : Riita Hjerppe (Helsinki) |
| Prados de la Escosura, Leandro (Carlos III) Rosés, Joan R. (Carlos III) |
The Sources of Growth in Spain, 1850-2000 | |
| Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Norwegian Sch Econ) Lindmark, Magnus (Norwegian Sch Econ) |
Market Convergence and Nordic model Divergence? | |
| Lains, Pedro (Lisbon) | The Winning Hare? Structural Change and Productivity Performance in Ireland and Portugal, 1979-2003 | |
| Session 2 | Room 5 | Standards of Living / Chair : Joerg Baten (Tuebingen) |
| Nummela, Ilkka (Jyvaskyla) Penttinen, Antti (Jyvaskyla) Moltchanova, Elena (IIASA, Austria) |
Bayesian Modelling of the Development of Male Heights in 18th Century Finland from Incomplete Data. | |
| Cinnirella, Francesco (Munich) | On The Road to Industrialization: Biological Standard of Living in Saxony, 18th and 19th Century. | |
| Coppola, Michela (Munich) | The Biological Standard of Living in Pre-Unification Germany | |
| Session 3 | Room 3 | Bond Markets and Currencies / Chair : Michael Bordo (Rutgers, New Jersey) |
| Esteves, Rui Pedro (Calif. Berkeley) | Quis custodiet quem? Sovereign Debt and Bondholders’ Protection Before
1914 |
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| Gaillard, Norbert (Sciences Po, Paris) | Moody’s Sovereign Ratings Between 1918 and 1931: What Methodology and
What Accuracy? |
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| Flandreau, Marc (Sciences Po, Paris) Jobst, Clemens (Etudes Politiques, Paris) |
Clio And The Economics of International Currencies | |
| Session 4 | Room 2 | Schooling-Training / Chair : Jonas Ljungberg (Lund) |
| Long, Jason (Colby, Maine) | The Economic Return to Primary Schooling in Nineteenth-Century England | |
| Mitch, David (Maryland, Baltimore) | The Demand for Qualified Engineers in Great Britain, 1921 to 1971 | |
| Nilsson, Anders (Lund) Nilsson, Fay Lundh (Lund) |
Skills and Training in the Wake of the Second Industrial Revolution | |
| Session 5 | Room 1 | Trade-I / Chair : Karl Gunnar Persson (Copenhagen) |
| Daudin, Guillaume (OFCE / Sciences Po, Paris) | Domestic Exchanges In Late 18th Century France: A Geography | |
| O’Rourke, Kevin H. (Trinity, Dublin) | The Worldwide Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars | |
| Viola, Antonella (EUI, Florence) | Mapping Italian Entrepreneurial and Commercial Presence in the 19th Century India | |
| 12.15-13.30 | Lunch | |
| Day I : 13.30-15.00 | ||
| Session 6 | Grand Room | Later Industrialisation / Chair : Lennart Schön (Lund) |
| Borodkin, Leonid (Moscow State) Leonard, Carol Scott (Oxford) |
The Rural-Urban Wage Gap in the Industrialization of Russia, 1885-1913 | |
| Ljungberg, Jonas (Lund) |
Human Capital and Economic Growth: Sweden 1870-2000 | |
| Mora-Sitja, Natalia (Oxford) | Exploring changes in earnings inequality: Barcelona, 1856-1905. | |
| Session 7 | Room 5 | Growth Outside Europe / Chair : Robert Allen (Oxford) |
Tafunell, Xavier (Pompeu Fabra) |
Capital Goods Imports and Investment in Latin America in the Mid 1920s | |
| Aiolfi, Marco (Bocconi) Catão, Luis (IMF) Timmermann, Allan (Calif, San Diego) |
Common Factors in Latin America's Business Cycles |
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| Smits, Jan-Pieter (Groningen) | Long-Run African Economic Growth, 1910-2000: An Analysis Based on a Broad Capital Concept | |
| Session 8 | Room 4 | During that time in the periphery / Chair : Caglar Keyder (Bogazici, Istanbul) |
| Reis, Jaime (Lisbon) Esteves, Rui Pedro (Calif, Berkeley) Ferramosca, Fabiano (Letras do Porto) |
Market Integration in the Golden Periphery: The Lisbon/ London Exchange Market, 1854-1891 | |
| Øksendal, Lars Fredrik (Norwegian Sch Econ) | Monetary Policy under the Gold Standard - Examining the Norwegian Evidence, 1892-1914 | |
| Larsson, Svante (Göteborg) | Globalisation, Inequality and Swedish catch up in the late nineteenth century. A critical discussion of Williamson's real wage comparisons. | |
| Session 9 | Room 3 | Currencies and Bond Markets / Chair : Stefano Battilossi (Carlos III) |
| Foreman-Peck, James (Cardiff) | Lessons from Italian Monetary Unification | |
| Bordo, Michael D. (Rutgers, New Jersey) Meissner, Christopher M. (Cambridge) |
Financial Crises, 1880-1913: The Role of Foreign Currency Debt | |
| Landon-Lane, John (Rutgers, New Jersey) Oosterlinck, Kim (Libre de Bruxelles) |
Hope springs eternal... French bondholders and the Soviet Repudiation (1915-1919) | |
| Session 10 | Room 2 | Labour Markets / Chair : Max-Stephan Schulze (LSE) |
| Saito, Kentaro (Kyoto Sangyo) Tomobe, Ken’ichi (Keio) |
Regional Labour Market Integration in Japan, the 1890s to the 1930s: With special reference to lesser skilled workers | |
| Seltzer, Andrew J. (Royal Holloway, London) | The Dynamics of White-Collar Salaries, 1890-1936: Evidence from the Banking Industry | |
| Svensson, Lars (Lund) | Endogenous Institutional Change: Labour Market Institutions in Sweden 1920-1990 | |
| Session 11 | Room 1 | Agriculture I / Chair : Giovanni Federico (EUI, Florence) |
| Koepke, Nikola (Tuebingen) Baten, Joerg (Tuebingen) |
Agricultural Specialization and Health in Ancient and Medieval Europe | |
| Goldstone, Jack A. (George Mason) | Feeding the People, Starving the State: China’s Agricultural Revolution of the 17th/18th Centuries | |
| Eddie, Scott M. (Toronto) | "Knight's Estates and Their Owners in East Elbian Germany before 1914: Embourgeoisement of the Landowning élite?" | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee | |
| Day I : 15.30-17.00 | ||
| Session 12 | Grand Room | Technology and Growth / Chair : James Foreman-Peck (Cardiff) |
| Allen, Robert C. (Oxford) | Capital Accumulation, Technical Change and the Distribution of Income during the British Industrial Revolution | |
| Kander, Astrid (Lund) Schön, Lennart (Lund) |
The Energy-Capital Relation-Sweden 1870-2000 | |
| Jalava, Jukka (Helsinki) Pohjola, Matti (Helsinki) |
Accounting for 20th Century Finnish Economic Growth: The Roles of Electricity and ICT | |
| Session 13 | Room 5 | Rearmament / Chair : Albrecht Ritschl (Humboldt, Berlin) |
| Fremdling, Rainer (Groningen) de Jong, Herman (Groningen) Timmer, Marcel (Groningen) |
Measuring Comparative Productivity in British and German Manufacturing 1935-1936. New Sectoral Benchmarks Based on Single and Double Deflation | |
| Spoerer, Mark (Hohenheim) Streb, Jochen (Hohenheim) |
Butter and Guns? The Economic Impact of the Nazi Armament Policy on the Welfare of the German Consumers | |
| Budraß, Lutz (Bochum) Scherner, Jonas (Mannheim) Streb, Jochen (Hohenheim) |
Demystifying the German “armament miracle” during World War II. New insights from the annual audits of German aircraft producers. | |
| Session 14 | Room 4 | Financial Institutions / Chair : Larry Neal (Illinois) |
| Murat Çizakça (Bahçesehir,Istanbul) | A Theory of Institutional Borrowing Across Civilisations | |
| Chambers, A.D. (LSE) | How Well Did The Stock Market Treat Industry? Evidence From Initial Public Offerings On The London Stock Exchange Over The 2Oth Century? | |
| Uebele, Martin (Humboldt, Berlin) Ritschl, Albrecht (Humboldt, Berlin) |
Stock Markets and the Business Cycle in Germany before World War I: Evidence from Spectral Analysis | |
| Session 15 | Room 3 | External Constraints and Crises / Chair : Jaime Reis (Lisbon) |
| Wandschneider, Kirsten (Middlebury) | The Stability of the Inter-war Gold Exchange Standard -- Did Politics Matter? | |
| Morys, Matthias (LSE) | How costly did the external constraint come under the Classical Gold Standard: A Comparison of Austria-Hungary and Italy, 1883-1913 | |
| Cassiers, Isabelle (Catholique de Louvain) Ledent, Philippe (Catholique de Louvain) |
Learning to Manage the External Constraint : Belgian monetary policy during the Bretton Woods era (1944-1971) | |
| Session 16 | Room 2 | Agriculture II / Chair Peter Solar (Vesalius) |
| Federico, Giovanni (EUI, Florence) | Why are we all Alive? The Growth of Agricultural Productivity and its Causes, 1800-2000 | |
| Petmezas, Socrates D. (Crete) | The Long Term Development of Greek Agricultural Productivity in a Euro-Mediterranean Perspective (1860-1980) | |
| Tunali, Insan (Koç, Istanbul) Bedi, Arjun (Inst. Social Studies, Netherlands) |
Testing for Market Imperfections: Participation In Land and Labor Contracts in Turkish Agriculture | |
| Session 17 | Room 1 | Protectionism in Late 19th Century / Chair : Jeffrey Williamson (Harvard) |
| Bohlin, Jan (Göteborg) | The Income Distributional Consequences of Agrarian Tariffs in Sweden on the Eve of World War I | |
| Tena, Antonio (Carlos III) | The Good Reputation of Late XIX Century Protectionism: Manufacture versus Total Protection in the European Tariff Growth Debate | |
| Lehmann, Sibylle (Trinity, Dublin) | The Political Economy of Protectionism in the Late 19th century: Voting for Protection in Germany | |
| Day I: 17.10-18.20 | Dissertation Competition / Chair : Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Carlos III) | |
| 19.00-20.30 | Dinner | |
| 20.45-21.15 | After-Dinner Talk back at the Museum | |
| Edhem Eldem (Bogazici, Istanbul) | A Bank for All Seasons: The Imperial Ottoman Bank, 1856-1933 | |
| Day 2 : Saturday, Sept. 10 | ||
| 9.00-10.30 | ||
| Session 18 | Grand Room | Industrial Development / Chair : Patrick O'Brien (LSE) |
| Reckendrees, Alfred (Cologne) | Diverse Paths to Factory Production, 1780s-1840s: the Wollen Cloth Industry in the West Riding of Yorkshire and in the West of the Rhineland (Prussian Rhine-Province) | |
| Lapavitsas, Costas (London) | Social and Economic Underpinnings of Industrial Development: Evidence From Ottoman Macedonia | |
| Giannetti, Renato (Florence) Velucchi, Margherita (Florence) |
Second Industrial Revolution in Italy (1860-1913) | |
| Session 19 | Room 5 | Services / Chair : Stephen Broadberry (Warwick) |
| Sedgwick, John (London Metropolitan) Pokorny, Michael (Westminster) |
The Consumption Characteristics of Film | |
| Bakker, Gerben (Essex) | The Emergence of High Sunk Costs Industries: Market Structure, Technological Change and Productivity Growth in Services, 1750-2000 | |
| Prat-Sabartés, Marc (Barcelona) | The Commercial Structures of Cotton Industry: a Comparative Perspective. | |
| Session 20 | Room 4 | Famous Crises Revisited / Chair : Rainer Fremdling (Groningen) |
| White, Eugene N. (Rutgers, New Jersey) | The Krach of 1882 and the Bourse de Paris | |
| Flores, Juan-Huitzi (Carlos III) | Information Structure and Financial Crises: Why Did’t Lombard Street Sound The Alarm ? | |
| Adalet, Müge (Victoria, Wellington) | Fundamentals, Capital Flows and Capital Flight: The German Banking Crisis of 1931 | |
| Session 21 | Room 3 | Microstructures / Chair : Marc Flandreau (Sciences Po, Paris) |
| Boerner, Lars (Humboldt, Berlin) | Medieval Market Design: Product Grouping on Medieval Fairs | |
| Neal, Larry (Illinois) | The London Stock Exchange in the first age of globalization, 1801-1914 | |
| Bayer, Christian (EUI, Florence) Burhop, Carsten (Muenster) | If only I could sack you! Management turnover and performance in large German Banks between 1874 and 1913 | |
| Session 22 | Room 2 | Trade-II / Chair : Socrates Petmezas (Crete) |
| Rubio, Mar (Pompeu Fabra) | On the Accuracy of Latin American Trade Statistics: a Nonparametric Test for 1925 | |
| Miró, Marc Badia (Barcelona) Marín, Anna Carreras (Pompeu Fabra) |
Geographical Deviations in Foreign Trade Statistics: a Study into European Trade with Latin American Countries 1925 | |
| Yücel, Yelda (Yapi Kredi Bank) | Empirical Examination of Turkish Foreign Trade: 1950-2003 | |
| Session 23 | Room 1 | Early Modern Institutions / Chair : Jack Goldstone (George Mason) |
| Kærgård, Niels (Royal Agricultural U, Denmark) | Asymmetric Information, Economics of Scale and the Guild System: Ecclesiastical Investments in Denmark 1050-1675 | |
| Gelderblom, Oscar (Utrecht) Grafe, Regina (Oxford) |
Towards a Comparative Analysis of Commercial Institutions in Pre-Modern Europe: The organization of foriegn merchant communities in Spain and the Low Countries (1250-1650) | |
| Clark, Gregory (Calif, Davis) | The Surprising Dynamism of the Malthusian World: Institutions, Preferences and Modern Growth | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee | |
| Day II: 11.00-12.30 | ||
| Session 24 Grand Room | Postwar European Growth / Chair : Pedro Lains (Lisbon) | |
| Cubel, Antonio (Valencia) Sanchis, M Teresa (Valencia) |
Investment and growth in Europe, 1950-1973 | |
| Enflo, Kerstin (Lund) | Convergence or Divergence? An Efficiency Approach to European Regional Growth 1980 – 2002 | |
| Labuske, Kirsten (Tuebingen) Baten, Joerg (Tuebingen) |
The Technical Component of Human Capital and its Determinants, in 51 Countries, 1880-1913 | |
| Session 25 | Room 5 | Motive Power / Chair : Gregory Clark (Calif, Davis) |
| Gabay Van Der Beek, Karine (Hebrew U, Jerusalem) | Coercion Power, Property Rights and Technology Adoption: Construction Of Watermills In Ponthieu, France During The 11th-12th Centuries | |
| Nuvolari, Alessandro (Eindhoven U of Technology) Verspagen, Bart (Eindhoven U of Technology) |
Unravelling the Duty': Lean's Engine Reporter and Cornish Steam Engineering | |
| Edquist, Harald (Stockholm Sch Econ) | Do Hedonic Price Indexes Change History? The Case of Electrification | |
| Session 26 | Room 4 | Insurance: Public and Private / Chair : Joachim Voth (Pompeu Fabra) |
| Elu Teran, Alexander (Barcelona) | The Origin of Public Old Age Insurance in Spain. An Economic Study of the Retiro Obrero (1909-1936) | |
| Khoudour-Castéras, David (Etudes Politiques, Paris) | Welfare State and Labor Mobility: The Impact of Bismarck's Social Legislation on German Emigration before World War I | |
| González de Lara, Yadira (Alicante) | The Birth of Insurance Contracts | |
| Session 27 | Room 3 | Finance and Development / Chair Albert Carreras (Pompeu Fabra) |
| Ögren, Anders (New York U) | Sweden: A Case of Finance-Led Economic Modernization? | |
| Battilossi, Stefano (Carlos III) | The Second Reversal: The Ebb and Flow of Financial Development in Western Europe, 1950-1991 | |
| Temin, Peter (MIT) Voth, Joachim (Pompeu Fabra) |
Credit Rationing and Crowding Out during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862 | |
| Session 28 | Room 2 | States / Chair : Ola Grytten (Norwegian Sch Econ) |
| Eloranta, Jari (Appalachian State, North Carolina) | Why Did The League of Nations Fail? | |
| Booth, Anne (SOAS, London) | Did It Really Help to be a Japanese Colony?: East Asian Economic Performance in Historical Perspective | |
| Session 29 | Room 1 | Trade-III / Chair : Kevin O'Rourke (Trinity, Dublin) |
| Ejrnæs, Mette (Copenhagen) Persson, Karl Gunnar (Copenhagen) Rich, Søren (Copenhagen) |
Feeding the British: Convergence and market efficiency in 19th century grain trade. | |
| Fernandez Garcia, Eva (Complutense, Madrid) | Appellations of Origin in Spain and France during the Twentieth Century. Quality and Reputation in Sherry Wine | |
| Serrano, Raúl (Zaragoza) Pinilla, Vicente (Zaragoza) |
The Insertion of Agriculture in International Trade, 1951-2000 | |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch | |
| Day II: 13.30-15.00 | ||
| Session 30 | Grand Room | Postwar European Industry / Chair : Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Carlos III) |
| Josephson, Camilla (Lund) | Economic Growth in the Swedish Manufacturing Industry 1952-2001 | |
| Howlett, Peter (LSE) | British Exports in the 1950s: Some Institutional and Geographic Considerations | |
| Spadavecchia, Anna (Reading) | Regional and National Industrial Policies in Italy, 1950s-1991. Where did the Subsidies Flow? | |
| Session 31 | Room 5 | Industrialisation and Incomes / Chair : Vera Zamagni (Bologna) |
| Redding, Stephen (LSE) Sturm, Daniel (Munich) Wolf, Nikolaus (Freie U., Berlin) |
Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany | |
| Fellman, Susanna (Helsinki) Hjerppe, Riitta (Helsinki) |
Increasing Sales, Competitive Advantages and Monopolisation Attempts – Economic Cooperation at Company Level between Finland and Sweden, 1900–1938 | |
| Roine, Jesper (Stockholm Sch Econ) Waldenström, Daniel (Stockholm Sch Econ) |
Top Incomes in Sweden over the Twentieth Century |
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| Session 32 | Room 4 | Money Demand and Prices / Chair : Eugene White (Rutgers, New Jersey) |
| Velde, François R. (Fed Reserve, Chicago) | John Law's System and Public Finance in the 18th c. France | |
| Baltzer, Markus ( Tuebingen) Kling, Gerhard (Utrecht) |
Predictability of future economic growth and the credibility of monetary regimes in Germany, 1870-2003 | |
| Session 33 | Room 3 | Interwar Macroeconomics / Chair : Zafer Toprak (Bogazici, Istanbul) |
| Kauppila, Jari (Min Transp and Comm, Finland) | Structure of the Finnish Economy at the Dawn of the Great Depression of the 1930s - An Input-Output Approach | |
| Gürsel, Seyfettin (Galatasaray, Istanbul) | Growth Despite Deflation: the Turkish Economy During the Great Depression | |
| Ritschl, Albrecht (Humboldt) | The Keynesian Myth of a Managed Recovery: Germany, 1933-1936 | |
| Session 34 | Room 2 | Population / Chair : Lars Svensson (Lund) |
| Ayuda, María-Isabel (Zaragoza) Collantes, Fernando (Zaragoza) Pinilla, Vicente (Zaragoza) |
From Locational Fundamentals to Increasing Returns: The Spatial Concentration of Population in Spain, 1787-2000 | |
| Murphy, Tommy E. (Oxford) | Old Habits Die Hard (Sometimes) - What can département heteroheneity tell us about the French fertility decline? | |
| Stanfors, Maria A. (Lund) | Explaining Fertility Variation in Twentieth Century Sweden | |
| Session 35 | Room 1 | Labour and Trade / Chair : Blanca Sanchez Alonso (San Pablo CEU) |
| Ojala, Jari (Jyväskylä) Pehkonen, Jaakko (Jyväskylä) |
Why Stay on Board? Ship Jumping as Quit Behaviour in the 19th Century Nordic Deep Sea Shipping | |
| Paul, Helen (St Andrews) | The South Sea Company’s Slaving Activities | |
| Betran, Concha (Valencia) Pons, Maria A. (Valencia) Ferri, Javier (Valencia) |
Wage Inequality and Globalisation: What Can We Learn from the Past? A General Equilibrium Model Approach | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee | |
| Day II: 15.30-16.30 Grand Room | EHES General Assembly | |
| Day II: 16.30-17.45 Grand Room | Closing Session / Chair : Lennart Schön (Lund) | |
| Jeffrey G. Williamson (Harvard) | Globalization, De-Industrialization and Underdevelopment in the
Third World Before the Modern Era |
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| Day II: 18.00-22.30 | Boat Tour and Dinner on the Bosphorus | |
| Programme Notes: | ||
| 90-minute sessions will be divided into three 30-minute blocks each of which will be devoted to one paper. Each author will be expected to present her/his paper in 15 minutes. The following 15 minutes will be devoted to questions from the floor and discussion. | ||
| Overhead projectors and facilities for power point presentations will be available in each room. | ||
| Programme Committee: Stephen Broadberry, Marc Flandreau and Sevket Pamuk | ||