World Congress of Cliometrics 2023

Dublin, Ireland

July 20, 2023 - July 22, 2023
  • Emanuele Felice, Francesco Fiore Melacrinis, “The agrarian roots of Italy’s North-South divide (1871-1911)”
  • Pablo Martinelli Lasheras, “Land inequality and long-run growth: evidence from Italy”
  • Paul Lowood, “Princes, Merchants, and Prelates: City Growth in the Holy Roman Empire, 1400-1800”
  • Noel D. Johnson, Andrew J. Thomas, Alexander N. Taylor, “The Impact of the Black Death on the Adoption of the Printing Press”
  • David Escamilla-Guerrero, Edward Kosack, Zachary Ward, “The impact of violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States”
  • Alexander Persaud, “Multicultural moral hazard: Information, medicine, and mortality in migrant voyages to British Guiana, 1873-1883”
  • Sophia Jung, Jörg Baten, “Gender equality during the great health transition of the 20th century in Asia and Europe: was it just a by-product of economic development?”
  • Madison Arnsbarger, “Political Economy of Women’s Suffrage and World War I”
  • Jade Ponsard, “Collective Action and gender Norms: Evidence from Suffragette Demonstrations”
  • Stephen D. Billington, Alan J Hanna, Joe Lane, “’A serious evil’ Anticipation, examination, and novel innovation in Britian, 1853-1913”
  • Jinlin Wei, “Financial development and patents during the First Industrial Revolution: England and Wales”
  • Aditi Singh, Sarah Vincent, “When Manhood is at Stake: Evidence from Emergency in India”
  • Maria Stanfors, “Economic independence and the risk of divorce. Evidence from Sweden, 1947-2015.”
  • Darrell J. Glaser, Alexander F. McQuoid, Ahmed S. Rahman, “Caught Between Prosperity and Patriotism- Economic Growth and Military Brain Drain, 1865-1945”
  • Amy Burnett Cross, “Signaling Women’s Entry into Male-Dominated Occupations” Evidence from the Gender Desegregation of the U.S. Army”
  • Mattia Bertazzini, Michela Giorcelli, “The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from the World War II Italy”
  • Sebastian Ottinger, Lukas Rosenberger, “The American Origin of the French Revolution”
  • Paul Bouscasse, “Canst Thou Beggar Thy Neighbour? Evidence from the 1930s”
  • Kris James Mitchen, Kristen Wandschneider, “Currency Wars and Monetary Regime Disintegration”
  • John P. Tang, Luis Carvalho Monteiro, “Literacy and occupation mobility: evidence from Brazil”
  • Eduardo Cenci, Daniel Lopes, Leonardo Monasterio, “Intergenerational Mobility and Regional Inequality in Brazil”
  • Hillary Vipod, “Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain: A Tasks Based Approach”
  • Rowena Gray, Siobhan O’Keefe, Sarah Quincy, Zachary Ward, “Task Inequality and Racial Mobility over the Long Twentieth Century”
  • Camila Saez Müller, “Infant mortality and health care access: Evidence from Chile 1933-60”
  • Adolfo Meisel, “The Epidemiological Transition in Macondo, 1918-1998”
  • Jonathan Schoots, Leone Walters, Johan Fourie, “When protest movements fail: The economic causes and consequances of settler rebellion in the Cape of Good Hope, 1775-1790”
  1. Warren Anderson, Antonios Koumpias, “Impacts of the 1967 Detroit Riot”
  • Alexandra M. de Pleijt, Ewout Frankema, “The Deep Roots of Human Capital Formation and Economic Development in Southeast Asia, ca. 1900-2000”
  • Julius Koschnick, “Breaking Tradition: Teacher-Student Effects at English Universities during the Scientific Revolution”
  • John C. Brown, David Cuberes, “Productivity Shocks and Path Dependence in 20th-Century Urbanization: The Case of Oklahoma”
  • Alexander J. Field, “The U.S. Rubber Famine during World War II”
  • Morgan Kelly, “The Standard Error of Persistence”
  • Magnus Neubert, “Leviathan’s Shadow: The Imperial Legacy of State Capacity and Economic Development in the Kingdom of Yugolavia”
  • Carlos J. Charotti, Nuno Palma, Joao Pereira dos Santos, “American treasure and the decline of Spain”
  • Joyce Burnette, “Explaining Earnings Variation among Weavers in the US Factory”
  • Leonardo Ridolfi, Carla Salvo, Jacob Weisdorf, “The effect of mechanization of labour: Evidence from the diffusion of steam-power”
  • Edwyna Harris, Sumner La Croix, “Did Different Rules for Establishing Property Rights in Land Impact Development? Evidence from Colonial South Australia, 1837-1910”
  • Melinda (Mindy) Miller, “The Biological Standard of Living and Communal Property Ownership: Evidence from the Amana Society of Iowa”
  • Velichka Dimitrova, “The fertility impact of mass return migration”
  • Henry Downes, “Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom”
  • Joerg Baten, Vera Haponova, Rafał Fetner, Darya Gritskevich, Aleksandra Grzegorska, Rimantas Jankauskas, Jovita Kadikinaitė, Justina Kozakaite, Wojciech Mazurek, Ergei Vasiliev, Qiang Wang, Volha Yemialyanchyk, “New estimates of European inequality trends form antiquity to the early-modern period: evidence form bioarcheological sources”
  • Joerg Baten, Giacomo Benati, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Alessandra Tagini, “A Game of Bones: State Capacity, Security, and Welfare in the Ancient Middle East. 10k-400 BCE”
  • Klas Rönnbäck, Guillaume Daudin, Gerhard de Kok, David Richardson, Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues, “The profitability of the transatlantic slave trade: aggregate estimates and explanatory factors”
  • Pantelis Kammas, Argyris Sakalis, Vassilis Sarantides, “Pudding, plague and education: trade and human capital formation in an agrarian economy”
  • Emma LaGuardia, Gregory Niemesh, “Trends in Educational Assortative Mating over the Early 20th-Century Unites States”
  • Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, “Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England 1754-2021”
  • Hanhui Guan, Nuno Palma, Meng Wu, “The Rise and Fall of Paper Money in Yuan China, 1260-1368”
  • Atsushi Kobayashi, “Did Purchasing Power Parity hold during the Early Globalization Era? -Bimetallic adjustment mechanism between Singapore and Britian-”
  • Elena Jorchmina, Mikolaj Malinowski, “Inequality under serfdom: Income and its distribution in early 19th century Russia”
  • Róbert Venyige, “Property Rights and the End of the Feudal Economic System”
  • Hélder Carvalhal, Nuno Palma, “Living standards in Angola, 1760-1960”
  • Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa, “The Depth and Breadth of Capitalism at the Cape: 1892-1902”
  • Anne Schaller, “Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era”
  • Max Marczinek, Stephan Maurer, Ferdinand Rauch, “Identity in Trade- Evidence from the Legacy of the Hanseatic League”
  • Paul Castañeda Dower, Scott Gehlbach, Dmitrii Kofanov, Steven Nafziger, “Violent Backlash to Political Reforms: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution”
  • Julia Zimmermann, Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, “Surveillance & Political Development Evidence from the Secret Police Files of the Russian Empire”
  • Viktor Malein, “Landed Elite and Expansion of Primary Schooling in the Russian Empire”
  • Ziming Zhu, “Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851-1911”
  • Aurelus Noble, “The Persistence of Aristocratic Wealth: Institutional Measures, Family Measures and Social Mobility, 1858-1907”
  • Brian A’Hearn, Giuliana Freschi, Giacomo Gabbuti, “Mobility of the Innocents Foundlings and their descendants in 19th century-Florence”
  • Sophie Li, “Historical Evidence on Gender Differences in Job Loss: U.S. Postmasters Before World War Two”
  • Matthew Curtis, Paula E. Gobbi, Marc Goni, Joanne Haddad, “Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern and Female Empowerment”
  • Neil Cummins, Aurelius Noble, Ziming Zhu, “The Economic Status of Women in England, 1066-1992: AN Exploratory Note”
  • Caroline Fohlin, Noah MacDonald, “Insider Trading and Market Efficiency before the SEC: Evidence from the Teapot Dome Scandal”
  • Elissa A. M. Iorgulescu, Alexander Pütz, Pierre L. Siklos, ““Evil” Speculators? Evidence from Grain Futures Trading in Chicago During the Interwar Period”
  • Lyndon Moore, Gertjan Verdict, “Railroad Bailouts in the Great Depression”
  • Joseph Enguehard, “The Race between Lewis and Malthus: Theory and Evidence from Colonial South Asia”
  • Giovanni Federico, Alessandro Nuvolari, Leonardo Ridolfi, Michelangelo Vasta, “Italian economic growth in the long run, 1300-1860: A regional state perspective”
  • Claude Diebolt, Michael Haupert, Lino Wehrheim, “The Migration of Ideas: What Economic Historians Study, Where they Publish, and Who Reads It, 1949-2016”
  • Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, “Liberalism Caused Economic Growth”
  • Markus Lampe, Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke, Lorenz Reiter, Yoto V. Yotov, “The Empire Project: Trade Policy in Interwar Canada”
  • Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood, Chris Minns, Fraser Summerfield, “The geography of economic mobility in 19th Century Canada”
  • Joel Huesler, Eric Strobl, “The Creative-Destructive Force of Hurricanes: Evidence from Technological Adoption in Colonial Jamaican Sugar Estates”
  • Christian Vedel, “A perfect storm and the natural endowments of trade-enabling infrastructure”
  • Áine Doran, “Financial Development and Fertility: A Test of the Old-Age Support Hypothesis in Pre-Famine Ireland”
  • Alan Fernihough, Christopher L. Colvin, Eoin McLaughlin, “Ming Your Language: The Decline of the Irish Language in the nineteenth Century”
  • Maximilian Guennewig-Moenert, “Directed Segregation: Evidence from New York City public housing 1930-2010”
  • Philipp Ager, Stefan Gissler, Ralf R. Meisenzahl, “Meat, Meal, and Molasses: How Post-Civil War Farm Tenancy Created Food Deserts”
  • Youwei Xing, “The Commercial Path: The Erie Canal and Transformation of Early Nineteenth-Century New York State”
  • Bookang Seol, “Social Fractionalization and Economic Development: Evidence from the Korean New Village Movement”
  • Chang Liu, Zhihao Xu, “Attention to Inflation”
  • Stefan Gerlach, Rebecca Stuart, “Have we under-estimates inflation persistence before WWI? International evidence, 1851-1913”

World Congress of Cliometrics 2017

Strasbourg, France

July 4, 2017 - July 7, 2017
  • Hakon Albers, Ulrich Pfister, Martin Uebele, “The Great Moderation of Grain Price Volatility: Market Integration vs. Climate Change, Germany, 1650-1790”
  • Nadir Altinok , Noam Angrist, Harry Patrinos, “An Updated Global Dataset on Education Quality (1965-2015) ”
  • Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Christophe Chamley, “Refinancing Short-Term Debt with a Fixed Monthly Interest Rate into Funded Juros under Philip Ii: An Asiento With the Maluenda Brothers”
  • Pamfili Antipa, Christophe Chamley , “Monetary and Fiscal Policy in England during the French Wars (1793-1821) ”
  • Cihan Artunç, “Commercial Expansion and Churning: Business Organization in Egypt between 1911 and 1948”
  • Jean-Pascal Bassino, Kyoji Fukao, Tokihiko Settsu, “Productivity Growth in Meiji Japan: The Structural and Regional Dynamics”
  • Jörg Baten, Richard H. Steckel, “The History of Violence over the Past Two Millennia: Archaeological Bone Traumata as a Source for European Violence History”
  • Thor Berger, “Economic Shocks and Crime in 19th-century Sweden”
  • Maylis Avaro, Vincent Bignon, “Monetary Policy and Counterparty Risk Management at Banque de France in late 19th Century”
  • Emilie Bonhoure, Laurent Germain, David Le Bris, “Active versus Speculative Monitoring: Evidence from pre-WWI Paris-Listed Firms”
  • Liam Brunt, Antonio Fidalgo, “Why 1990 International Geary-Khamis Dollars Cannot be a Foundation for Reliable Long Run Comparisons of GDP”
  • Oliver Bush, “The Evolution of Bank Lending Behavior in Post-WWII Britain: Evidence from a New Narrative Measure”
  • Joyce Burnette, “Gender Differences in Absenteeism in Nineteenth-Century US Manufacturing”
  • Christian Brownlees, Ben Chabot, Eric Ghysels, Christopher Kurz, “Backtesting Systemic Risk Measures during Historical Bank Runs”
  • Olivier Accominotti, Jason Cen, David Chambers, Ian Marsh “Currency Regimes and the Carry Trade”
  • Jonathan Chapman, “The Contribution of Infrastructure Investment to Britain’s Urban Mortality Decline 1861-1900”
  • Jackys Charles, “Loving Day: Interracial Marriages and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States”
  • Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, “The People, not the Place. The Decline of the North of England 1918-2017: A Surname Investigation”
  • William J. Collins, Gregory T. Niemesh, “Unions and the Great Compression of American Inequality, 1940-1960”
  • Christopher L. Colvin, Stuart Henderson, John D. Turner, “An Economic Conversion? Rural Cooperative Banking in the Netherlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
  • Graeme G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle, David Jordan, John D. Turner, “Prices and Informed Trading”
  • Alexandra M. de Pleijt, Chris Minns, Patrick Wallis, “Technical Change and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from the Industrial Revolution”
  • Alexander Donges, Jean-Marie A. Meier, Rui C. Silva, “The Impact of Institutions on Innovation”
  • Giacomin Favre, Joël Floris, Ulrich Woitek, “Social Mobility in the Long Run – Evidence from the City of Zurich”
  • Price Fishback , Sebastian Fleitas, Jonathan Rose, Ken Snowden, “Foreclosed Real Estate and the Supply of Mortgage Credit by Building and Loans during the 1930s”
  • Caroline Fohlin, “The Volatility of Money:The New York Call Money Market and Monetary Policy Regime Change ”
  • Annalisa Frigo, Eric Roca, ““Now She Is Martha, then She Is Mary”: the Influence of Beguinages on Attitudes Toward Women”
  • Eric Girardin, Harry X. Wu, “Taking off and slowing down like China”
  • Sun Go, Heejin Park, “Identifying Historical Shocks to the Marriage Decisions: The age at marriage of the Koreans from the late 11th to early 20th century”
  • Rowena Gray, UC Merced, “Rents and Welfare in the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from New York City”
  • Farley Grubb, “Colonial Virginia’s Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774: Value Decomposition and Performance”
  • Roy E. Bailey, Timothy J. Hatton, “Atmospheric Pollution and Child Health in Late Nineteenth Century Britain”
  • Young-ook Jang, “The Road Home: The Role of Ethnicity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Migration”
  • Niels Kærgård, “From a National Welfare State to Multicultural Market Economy: The Case of Denmark, 1870-2011”
  • Olivier Accominotti, Philipp Kessler, Kim Oosterlinck, “The Dawes Bonds: Selective Default and International Trade”
  • Maxwell Kiniria, “The Mortality Effects of Local Boards of Health in England, 1848-70”
  • Piet Eichholtz, Matthijs Korevaar, Thies Lindental, “500 Years of Urban Rents, Housing Quality and Affordability in Europe”
  • Claude Diebolt, Charlotte Le Chapelain, Audrey-Rose Menard, “Industrialization as a Deskilling Process? Steam Engines and Human Capital in XIXth Century France”
  • Luisito Bertinelli, Anastasia Litina, “The Geographical Origins of Early State Formation”
  • Maria del Pilar Lopez-Uribe, “Threat of Revolution, Peasant Movement and Redistribution: The Colombian Case 1957-1985”
  • Alexandra M. de Pleijt, Jan Luiten van Zanden, “Gender Wage Inequality in Western Europe, 1400-1800”
  • Nikita Lychakov, “Government-made Bank Distress: Industrialization Policies and the 1899-1902 Russian Financial Crisis”
  • Ousmène Jacques Mandeng, “The Reichsbank, Central Banking Competition and Monetary Stability in Germany in 1876-90”
  • Stephan Ernst Maurer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Ferdinand Rauch, “Of Mice and Merchants: Trade and Growth in the Iron Age”
  • Erin McGuire, “Estimating the Impact of Local Conditions on Asset Preferences in Adulthood”
  • Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri, Adolfo Meisel-Roca, María Teresa Ramírez-Giraldo, “More than One-Hundred Years of Improvements in Living Standards: The Case of Colombia”
  • Keith Meyers, “Casualties of the Cold War: Fallout, Irradiated Dairy, and the Mortality Effects of Nuclear Testing”
  • Jose A. Lopez, Kris James Mitchener, “Uncertainty and Hyperinflation: European Inflation Dynamics after World War I”
  • Michail Moatsos, “Long run trails of global poverty, 1925-2010”
  • Matthias Morys, “Greece in a Monetary Union:Lessons from 100 Years of Exchange-Rate Experience”
  • Myung Soo Cha, Junseok Hwang, Heejin Park, “What Did Civil Examination Do for Korea?”
  • Michael Bordo, Eric Monnet, Alain Naef, “The Gold Pool (1961-1968) and the Fall of the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for Central Bank Cooperation”
  • Natalya Naumenko, “Collectivization of Soviet agriculture and the 1932–1933 Famine”
  • Giovanni Federico, Alessandro Nuvolari, Michelangelo Vasta, “The Origins of the Italian Regional Divide: Evidence from Real Wages, 1861-1913”
  • Patrick K. O’Brien, Nuno Palma, “Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act and the Regime Shift to Paper Money, 1797-1821”
  • Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough, Markus Lampe, Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke, “When Britain Turned Inward: Protection and the Shift Towards Empire in Interwar Britain”
  • John Cranfield, Kris Inwood, Les Oxley, Evan Roberts, “Long run changes in the body mass index of adults in three food abundant settler societies: Australia, Canada and New Zealand”
  • Craig Palsson, “Breaking from Colonial Institutions: Haiti’s Idle Land, 1928-1950”
  • Kostadis Papaioannou, “Rainfall Patterns and Human Settlement in Tropical Africa and Asia Compared: Did African Farmers Face Greater Insecurity?”
  • Alexander Persaud, “Risk Mitigation and Selection Under Forward Contracts: 19th-Century Indian Indentureship”
  • Rui Pedro Esteves, Florian Ploeckl, “Trade Agreements, Democracy and Political Alliances: Understanding the evolution of the global institutional system during the First Globalization”
  • Leandro Prados de la Escosura, “International Well-being Inequality in the Long Run”
  • Douglas J. Puffert, “The Hand of the Past and the Railway Networks of the Present”
  • Ahmed Rahman, “Officer Retention and Military Spending:The Rise of the Military Industrial Complex during the Second World War ”
  • Esther Redmount, Arthur Snow, Ronald S. Warren, “The Purchase of British Army Commissions: Signalling in a Dynamic Model of Appointment and Promotion”
  • Matthias Blum, Claudia Rei, “Escaping Europe:Health and Human Capital of Holocaust Refugees “
  • Eltjo Buringh, Bruce Campbell, Auke Rijpma, Jan Luiten van Zanden, “Church Building and the Economy During Europe’s ‘Age of the Cathedrals’, 700–1500”
  • Leticia Arroyo Abad, Blanca Sánchez-Alonso, “A City of Trades and Networks: Spanish and Italian Immigrants in Late Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires, Argentina”
  • Eric Schneider, Kota Ogasawara, “Children’s Growth in Industrializing Japan”
  • Jessica Bean, Andrew Seltzer, Jonathan Wadsworth, “The Impact of Commuting and Mass Transport on the London Labour Market: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour”
  • Peter Sandholt Jensen, Markus Lampe, Paul Sharp, Christian Skovsgaard, “A Land ‘of Milk and Butter’:The Role of Elites for the Economic Development of Denmark”
  • Masato Shizume, “Banking Networks and Financial Market Integration: A Case of Japan during the Late 19th Century”
  • Maria Stanfors, “Was There a Marriage Premium in Late Nineteenth-Century Manufacturing? Evidence from Sweden”
  • Alex Hollingsworth, Melissa A. Thomasson, “A Gift of Health: The Duke Endowment’s Impact on Health Care in the Carolinas: 1925-1940”
  • Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez, Salvador Gil-Guirado, Chris Vickers, “The Old Men in the Census: Inequality and Mobility in 18th Century Murcia”
  • Alan Hanna, John D. Turner, Clive B. Walker, “News Media and Stock Market Returns over the Long Run”
  • Joanna N. Lahey, Marianne H. Wanamaker, Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, “The Marginal Child throughout the Life Cycle: Evidence from Early Law Variation”
  • Zachary Ward, “The Not-So-Hot Melting Pot: The Persistence of Outcomes for Descendants of the Age of Mass Migration”
  • Le Bris, W. Goetzmann, S. Pouget, M. Wavasseur, “Asset Pricing in Old Regime France”
  • Jane Humphries, Jacob Weisdorf, “Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1850”
  • Laura Panza, Jeffrey G. Williamson, “Australian Squatters, Convicts, and Capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie 1821-1871”
  • Joël Floris, Sonja Glaab-Seucken, Ulrich Woitek, “Long-Run Consequences of Exposure to Influenza at Birth: Zurich 1889/1890”
  • Harry X. Wu, “Towards a Quantitative Assessment of the Transformation of Workforce in the Course of China’s Industrialization and Urbanization, 1912-2012”
  • Bin Xie, “The Effect of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industry Development”
  • Susan Ou, Heyu Xiong, “Linguistic Barriers to State Capacity and Ideology: Evidence from the Cultural Revolution”
  • Junichi Yamasaki, “Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development: Evidence from Japan”
  • Franz Xaver Zobl, “Technological choice and urban agglomeration: Steam vs Water Power in French Industrialization”

World Congress of Cliometrics 2013

Honolulu, Hawaii

July 1, 2013
  • Jeremy Atack, Matthew Jaremski, and Peter Rousseau, “American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War”
  • Jean-Pascal Bassino, Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Masanori Takashima, “Japan and the Great Divergence, 725-1890”
  • Chiaki Morguchi and Tuan-Hwee Sng, “Taxation and Public Goods Provision in China and Japan before 1850”
  • Jessica Bean, “Intergenerational Labor Supply in Interwar London”
  • Qian Lu (University of Maryland) and John Wallis, “From Partisan Banking to Open Access”
  • Bishnupriya Gupta and Tetsuji Okazaki, “When Did Japan Overtake India?: Lessons from Cotton Mills”
  • James Feigenbaum (Harvard University), “A New Old Measure of Intergenerational Mobility: From Iowa 1915 to 1940”
  • Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Angelo Riva, and Eugene N. White, “Can Moral Hazard Be Avoided? The Banque de France and the Crisis of 1889”
  • Yuyu Chen, Hui Wang, and Se Yan, “The Long-Term Effects of Christian Activities in China”
  • Silvi Berger (University College Dublin), “Residential Exodus from Dublin c.1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government”
  • Joyce Burnette and Maria Stanfors, “Gender and Wage Growth: Evidence from Swedish Manufacturing c. 1900”
  • Nicolas Ziebarth, “Public Information, the Radio, and Bank Runs in the Great Depression”
  • Andrea Matranga (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), “The Best Mistake in the History of the Human Race”
  • Daniel Marcin (University of Michigan), “The Revenue Act of 1924: Publicity, Tax Cuts, and Response”
  • Yukiko Abe and Giorgio Brunello, “On the Historical Development of Regional Differences in Women’s in Women’s Participation in Japan”
  • Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Junguito, “World Trade: 1800-1938”
  • Alan de Bromhead (University of Oxford), “Women Voters and Party Preference in Weimar Germany”
  • Melinda Miller, “Assimilation and Economic Performance: The Case of Federal Indian Policy”
  • Beverly Lemire, “Men of the World: English Mariners, Plebeian Consumerism and New Worlds of Fashion in an Era of Global Trade, c. 1600-1800”
  • Yasuo Takatsuki, “Informational Efficiency under the Shogunate Governance: Concentration and Integration of the Rice Market in Tokugawa Japan”
  • Jules Hugot (Sciences Po) and Camilo Umana Dajud, “Who gained from Suez and Panama?”
  • Ralph Hippe, “Remoteness equals Backwardness? Human Capital and Market Access in the European Regions: Insights from the Long Run”
  • Concepción Betrá and Michael Huberman, “International Competition in the First Wave of Globalization: New Evidence on the Margins of Trade”
  • Eric Schneider (University of Oxford), “Real Wages and the Household: The Impact of Women and Children’s Labour Force Participation on Real Wages in Pre-Modern England”
  • Marta Felis-Rota, Jordí Marti Henneberg, and Laia Mojica, “A GIS analysis of the Evolution of the Railway Network and Population Densities in England and Wales, 1851-2000”
  • Haiyun K. Chen (Simon Fraser University) and Leanna Mitchell (Simon Fraser University), “Cooperation, Competition, and Linguistic Diversity”
  • David Jacks, “Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade”
  • Carl Kitchens, “Sparking Fertility: The Rural Electrification Administration and Fertility in the United States 1930-1940”
  • Gisela Rua, “Fixed Costs, Network Effects, and the International Diffusion of Containerization”
  • William J. Collins and Marianne Wanamaker, “The Great Migration in Black and White: Understanding Black-White Differences using Linked Census Data”
  • Edward Kosack (University of Colorado, Boulder), “The Bracero Program and Effects on Human Capital Investments in Mexico, 1942-1964”
  • James Fenske and Namrata Kala, “Climate, Ecosystem Resilience and the Slave Trade”
  • Steven Nafziger, “Russian Serfdom, Emancipation, and Land Inequality: New Empirical Evidence”
  • Farley Grubb, “The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment”
  • Zachary Ward (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Birds of Passage: Self-Selection of Return Migrants in the Early 20th Century”
  • Christina Mumme and Joerg Baten, “Does Inequality Lead to Civil Wars? A Global Long-Term Study Using Anthropometric Indicators (1816-1999)”
  • Robert Warren Anderson, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama, “Pogroms and Expulsions: From the Persecuting to the Protective State”
  • Rafael González-Val, Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat, and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, “Market Potential and City Growth: Spain 1860-1960”
  • Yannay Spitzer (Northwestern University), “The Dynamics of Mass Migration: The Economics of the Jewish Exodus from the Pale of Settlement”
  • Alex Hollingsworth (University of Arizona), “The Impact of Sanitaria on Pulmonary Tuberculosis Mortality: Evidence from North Carolina, 1932-1940”
  • Stephanie Collet and Peter Sims (London School of Economics), “From Chaos to Order: National Consolidation and Sovereign Bonds in Uruguay 1890-1914”
  • Rafael Dobado Gonzalez and Alfredo García-Hiernaux, “West versus East: Grain Market Integration and the Great Divergence”
  • Tim Hatton, “American Immigration Policy: The 1965 Act and Its Consequences”
  • Carolyn M. Moehling, Melissa A. Thomasson, and Jaret Treber, “The Swan Song of the Country Doctor: Flexner and the Economics of the Practice of Medicine”
  • Ling-Fan Li, “Financial Market Integration in Western Europe, 1400-1700; Evidence from Exchange Arbitrage”
  • Rodrigo Parral Duran (University of Arizona), “Contractual Commitments in New Spain: The Local Allocation of Quicksilver in Zacatecas, 1740-1780”
  • Alexander J. Field, “The Savings and Loan Crisis in the Shadow of the 2000s”
  • Alan Dye, “Where Are All the Yankees? Ownership and Entrepreneurship in Cuban Sugar, 1898-1929”
  • Anna Missiaia (London School of Economics and Political Science), “Market vs. Endowment: Explaining Early Industrial Location in Italy (1871-1911)”
  • Darrell J. Glaser and Ahmed S. Rahman, “Sea Power and Maritime Trade in the Age of Globalization”
  • Michael D. Bordo and Pierre Siklos, “Central Bank Credibility and Reputation: An Historical Exploration”
  • Paul Castañeda Dower and Andrei Markevich, “Labor Surplus, Mass Mobilization and Peasant Welfare: Russian Agriculture during the Great War”
  • Florian Ploeckl, “It’s all in the Mail: the Urban Geography of the German Empire”
  • Dustin Frye (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Politics, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Growth: A Case Study of the Interstate Highway System”
  • Ross Knippenberg (University of Colorado, Boulder), “By How Much Did Railroads Conquer the West?”
  • Haelim Park (University of California, Irvine), Gary Richardson, and Brian Yang, “Deposit Insurance Reduced Depositor Monitoring: Quasi-Experimental Estimates from the Creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance”
  • Brooks Kaiser, “Bioeconomic Factors of Natural Resource Transitions: The US sperm whale fishery of the 19th century”
  • Gabriele Cappelli (European University Institute), “Escaping from a Human Capital Trap? Italy’s Regions and the Move to Centralised Primary Schooling, 1861-1936”
  • Nina Boberg-Fazlic and Paul Sharp, “North and South: Social Mobility and Welfare Spending in Preindustrial England”
  • Xing Li, Megan MacGarvie, and Petra Moser, “Dead Poet’s Property: Copyright and the price of intellectual assets”
  • Amélie Charles, Olivier Darné, Claude Diebolt, and Laurent Ferrara, “A New Monthly Chronology of the US industrial Cycles in the Prewar Economy”
  • Pei Gao (London School of Economics), “The Uneven Rise of Modern Education in China in the Early 20th Centur”
  • Leonard Dudley, “Necessity’s Children? The Inventions of the Industrial Revolution”
  • Marc Goñi Tràfach (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), “Institutional Innovation and Assortative Matching: the London Season, 1700-1914”
  • Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis, “A Tale of Two Regimes: Educational Achievement and Institutions in Portugal, 1910-1950”
  • Robert Warren Anderson, “The Inquisition and Scholarship”
  • Sebastian Fleitas (University of Arizona), Price Fishback, and Kenneth Snowden, “Market Exit and Institutional Change: B&L Mortgage Contracts During the Great Depression”
  • Wayne Liou (University of Hawai’i), “Effects of Annexation on Labor in Hawai’i”
  • Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta, “Independent Invention in Italy during the Liberal Age, 1861-1913”
  • Meng Xue (George Mason University), “Technology Shocks, Relative Productivity, and Son Preference: The Long-Term Impact of Historical Textile Production”
  • Lawrence Katz and Robert Margo, “Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective”
  • Alexandru Minea and Antoine Parent, “Public Debt and Economic Growth through History: New Evidence from a Macroeconometric Retrospective Analysis”
  • Richard B. Baker (Boston University), Carola Frydman, and Eric Hilt, “From Plutocracy to Progressivism? Measuring the Value of McKinley’s Presidency for MajorCorporations”
  • Kris Inwood, Les Oxley, and Evan Roberts, “Tall, Active and Well Made? New Insights into Maori Health, c.1700-1976”
  • Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg (Northwestern University), “Exogenous or Endogenous Colonial Institutions? Lessons from a Comparison of Tax Systems in British and French Africa, 1880-1940”
  • Evan Roberts , Kris Inwood, and Les Oxley, “Height, Weight and Mortality in the Past: New Evidence from a Late Nineteenth Century New Zealand Cohort”
  • Theresa Gutberlet (University of Arizona), “Railroads and the Regional Concentration of Industry in Germany 1861 to 1882”
  • Helen Yang (George Mason University), “Dual Landownership as Tax Shelter: How Did the Chinese Solve Ricardo’s Problem?”
  • Kris Mitchener, Kirsten Wandschneider, “Capital Controls and Recovery from the Financial Crisis of the 1930s”
  • Krzysztof Karbownik (Uppsala University) and Anthony Wray (Northwestern University), “Childhood Illness and Occupational Choice in London, 1870-1911”
  • Elisabeth Perlman (Boston University) and Steven Sprick Schuster (Boston University), “Delivering the Vote: The Political Effect of Free Mail Delivery in Early TwentiethCentury America”
  • Eric B. Golson, “German and British Balance of Payments with the European Neutrals in the Second World War”
  • Brendan Livingston, “Murder and the Black Market: Alcohol Prohibition’s Impact on Homicide Rates in American Cities”

World Congress of Cliometrics 2008

Edinburgh, Scotland

July 17, 2008 - July 20, 2008
  • Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta, “The Historical Roots of India’s Service-Led Development: A Sectoral Analysis of Anglo-Indian Productivity Differences, 1870-2000”
  • Rui Pedro Esteves and David Khoudour-Castéras, “A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants’ Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment during the Gold Standard Period”
  • Gerben Bakker, “The Evolution of the Pharmaceutical Industry: Sunk Costs, Market Size and Market Structure, 1800-2000”
  • John A. James, James McAndrews and David F. Weiman, “Panics and the Disruption of Private Payments Networks: The United States in 1893 and 1907”
  • David Mitch, “High Stakes Educational Testing in Victorian England”
  • J. Peter Ferderer, “Advances in Communication Technology and Growth of the American Over-the-Counter Markets, 1876-1929”
  • Stefano Ugolini, “The Origins of Foreign Exchange Policy: A detailed analysis of the case of the National Bank of Belgium, 1851-1853”
  • Maarten Bosker, Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten van Zanden, “From Baghdad to London – The dynamics of urban growth in Europe and the Arab world, 800-1800”
  • Louis Cain and Sok Chul Hong, “Survival in 19th Century Cities: The Larger the City, the Smaller Your Chances”
  • Les Oxley, “Inventiveness and Economic Growth on the Periphery: Patenting activity in New Zealand, 1871-1939.”
  • Antonio Tena-Junguito, “Bairoch Revisited. Tariff Structure and Growth in the Late 19th Century.”
  • Guillaume Daudin, “Domestic Trade and Market Size in Late Eighteenth Century France”
  • Sibylle H. Lehmann and Kevin H. O’Rourke, “The structure of protection and growth in the late 19th century”
  • Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur and David Le Bris, “A challenge to triumphant optimists? A new index for the Paris Stock-Exchange (1854-2007)”
  • Jeff Frank and Andrew Seltzer, “Female Salaries and Careers in the British Banking Industry, 1915-41”
  • Elise S. Brezis and Heeho Kim, “Efficiency of the Korean Slave Market – 1689-1890”
  • Giovanni Federico and Ricardo Paixão, “Market power on the colonial frontier: São Paulo 1750-1850”
  • Carsten Burhop, “Corporate Law and Underpricing of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Germany, 1870-1896”
  • Sun Go, “Free Schools in America, 1850-1870: Who Voted for Them, Who Got Them, and Who Paid”
  • B. Zorina Khan, “Premium inventions: Prizes and Patents among Great Inventors in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930”
  • Marina Estelle Adshade, “Predicting Patterns of Early Twentieth Century Wage Inequality”
  • Marta Felis-Rota, “Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and its Synergies with Per Capita Income”
  • Mark Dincecco, “The Political Economy of Financial Good Housekeeping in Historical Perspective”
  • Olivier Accominotti, Marc Flandreau, Riad Rezzik and Frédéric Zumer, “Black Man’s Burden, Redux: On the Miscalculations of the British Empire, 1880-1913”
  • Jean-Luc Demeulemeester and Claude Diebolt, “New Institutional History of the Adaptive Efficiency of Higher Education Systems – Lessons from the Prussian Engineering Education: 1806-1914”
  • Esther Redmount, Arthur Snow and Ronald S. Warren, Jr., “The Effect of Wage-Payment Reform on Workers’ Labor Supply and Welfare”
  • Eric Hilt, “Wall Street’s First Corporate Governance Crisis: The Conspiracy Trials of 1826”
  • Steven Nafziger, “Democracy Under the Tsars? The Case of the Zemstvo”
  • David S. Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner and Dennis Novy, “Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs”
  • Petra Moser, “Why Don’t Inventors Patent?”
  • Heather F. Howard, “Prepaid Passage and the Timing of Emigration”
  • Alexander J Field, “Procyclical TFP and the Cyclicality of Growth in Output per Hour, 1890-2004”
  • Caroline Fohlin, “Venture Capital Institutions in Post-War America: Political Influences on Geography and Organizational Change”
  • William Troost, “Peer to Peer: Lifetime Learning and the Evolution of the Gender Literacy Gap”
  • Donald J. Smythe, “Why Was the Uniform Sales Act Adopted in Some States but not Others?”
  • Joyce Burnette, “Testing for Wage Discrimination in US Manufacturing in 1832”
  • Christopher Kingston, “A Broker and his Network: Marine Insurance in Philadelphia during the French and Indian War, 1755-1759”
  • Felipe Tâmega Fernandes, “Taxation and Welfare: the case of Rubber in the Brazilian Amazon (1870-1910)”
  • Alexander Rathke, Tobias Straumann and Ulrich Woitek, “Reinventing Export-led Growth: Sweden in the 1930s”
  • Jessica S. Bean and George R. Boyer, “The Trade Boards Act of 1909 and the Alleviation of Household Poverty”
  • Brooks A. Kaiser, “Long run outcomes of conservation expenditures: Watershed destruction, rehabilitation and protection in Hawaii”
  • Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier, “The Value of Silver in an Age of Gold”
  • Marianne Hinds Wanamaker, “Slave Emancipation as a Natural Experiment in American Fertility”
  • Saumitra Jha, “Shareholding, coalition formation and political development: evidence from 17th century England”
  • John P. Tang, “The Role of Financial Conglomerates in Industrialization: Evidence from Meiji Japan, 1868-1912”
  • Stacey Jones, “Teachers and Tipping Points: Historical Origins of the Teacher Quality Crisis”
  • Vincent Bignon and Jérôme Sgard, “The two uses of bankruptcy law in 19th century France: dealing with the poor and restructuring capital”
  • Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss, “The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: Estimates for the Middle Colonies”
  • Gavin Wright, “Sharing the Prize: The Civil Rights Revolution and the Southern Economy”
  • Alan Dye, “The New Deal and the “New Cuba”: Cuba’s Participation in the U.S. Sugar Quota Program, 1934-1941″
  • Angela Redish and Warren E. Weber, “Coin Sizes and Payments in Commodity Money Systems”
  • Dorothee Crayen and Joerg Baten, “Global Trends in Numeracy 1820-1949 and Its Implications for Long-Run Growth”
  • Melinda Miller, “The Effect of Free Land Access on Former Slaves and Their Descendents”
  • Jaime Bonet and Adolfo Meisel, “The Colonial Legacy as a Determinant of Regional Per Capita Income in Colombia”
  • Masato Shizume, “A Reassessment of Japan’s Monetary Policy during the Great Depression: The Constraints and Remedies”
  • Graeme G. Acheson, Charles R. Hickson, John D. Turner and Qing Ye, “Rule Britannia!: British Stock Market Returns, 1825-1870”
  • Sandra González-Bailón and Tommy E. Murphy, “When Smaller Families Look Contagious – A Spatial Look at the French Fertility Decline Using an Agent-Based Simulation Model”
  • David Eltis, Frank Lewis and Kimberly McIntyre, “The Cost Of Transporting Slaves to the Caribbean, 1683 – 1686”
  • Susan Wolcott, “Microfinance in Colonial India”
  • Ernst Juerg Weber, “The Role of the Real Interest Rate in U.S. Macroeconomic History”
  • Tim Leunig, Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis, “How fluid were labour markets in pre-industrial Britain? New evidence from apprenticeship records”
  • Julia Casutt and Ulrich Woitek, “Grain Prices and Mortality in Vienna, 1648-1754”
  • Jari Eloranta and Mark Harrison, “Correlates of Mobilization in the Two World Wars”
  • Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins, “Malthus to Modernity: When and How did Fertility Behavior Change in the Demographic Transition in England?”
  • Ian Gazeleya and Andrew Newell, “Poverty in Britain in 1904: an early social survey rediscovered”
  • Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn, “Fetters of Debt, Deposit, or Gold during the Great Depression? The International Propagation of the Banking Crisis of 1931”
  • Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie, “[Up and] Down on the Farm: Tenure Mobility and Intergenerational Wealth Transfers in U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1920”
  • Christina Gathmann and Patricia Funk, “How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments”
  • Niels Framroze Møller and Paul Sharp, “Malthus in Cointegration Space: A fresh look at the relationship between demography and living standards in pre-industrial England”
  • Angelo Riva and Eugene N. White, “Danger on the Exchange: Counterparty Risk on the Paris Exchange in the Nineteenth Century”
  • Peter B. Meyer, “New technologies and earnings variation within occupations since 1960”
  • Hans-Christian Heinemeyer, Max-Stephan Schulze and Nikolaus Wolf, “Endogenous Borders? The effects of new borders on trade in Central Europe 1885-1933”

World Congress of Cliometrics 2004

Venice, Italy

July 8, 2004 - July 11, 2004
  • Collins, William J., Robert A. Margo, “The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values”
  • De Lara, Yarira Gonzalez, “The State as an Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: A Historical Institutional Analysis”
  • Garcia-Iglesias, Concepcion, Juha K. Kilponen, “Trends, Cycles and Economic Growth in the Nordic Countries during the Classical Gold Standard Period”
  • Jacks, David S., “What Drove 19th Century Market Integration?”
  • Toman, J. T., “The Papal Conclave: How Do Cardinals Divine the Will of God?”
  • Turner, John D., Charles R. Hickson, “Much Ado About Nothing: The Introduction of Limited Liability and the Market for Nineteenth-century Irish Bank Stock”
  • MacKinnon, Mary, Chris Minns, “The Costs of Doing Hard Time: A Penitentiary-based Regional Price Index for Canada, 1880-1925”
  • Weidenmier, Marc D., Kris James Mitchener, “How are Sovereign Debtors Punished? Evidence from the Gold Standard Era”
  • Etkes, Haggay, Miri Shefer, “Early Modern Globalisation and the De-urbanisation of the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Jerusalem”
  • Mitch, David, “Was the Shift from Sail to Steam in Ocean Shipping, 1860 to 1912, Skill-biased?”
  • Shanahan, Martin P., Livio Di Matteo, “Life Insurance and Wealth: Evidence from Ontario, 1892 and South Australia, 1905-1915”
  • Pereira, Alvaro S., “Triple Engines of Growth: Why did Sustained Growth Emerge in Europe and not in Asia?”
  • Vecchi, Giovanni, Michela Coppola, “Nutrition and Growth in Italy, 1861-1911. What Macroeconomic Data Hide”
  • Kaiser, Brooks, James Roumasset, “Coase, Blackboard Economics and the Evolution of Marine Property in Hawaii”
  • Williamson, Samuel H., Lawrence H. Officer, “What is Something Worth?”
  • Keeling, Drew, , “The Economics of Migratory Transport Between Europe and the USA, 1900-14”
  • Bogart, Dan, “Turnpike Trusts and the Transportation Revolution in 18th Century England”
  • Eloranta, Jari, “Struggle for Leadership? Military Spending Behavior of the Great Powers, 1870-1913”
  • Meisel, Adolfo, Margarita Vega, “A Tropical Success Story: A Century of Improvements in the Biological Standard of Living, Colombia 1910-2002”
  • Wright, Gavin, Gary Saxonhouse, “Stretching Cotton Fibers Around the World: Diffusion, Learning and Competing Paradigms in Spinning Technology, 1878-1933”
  • Burhop, Carsten, Guntram B. Wolff, “A Compromise Estimate of Net National Product and the Business Cycle in Germany 1851-1913”
  • Betran, Concha, Maria A. Pons, “Wage Inequality and Globalisation: What Can we Learn from the Past?”
  • Nafziger, Steven, “Land Redistributions and the Russian Peasant Commune in the Late-Imperial Period”
  • Ma, Debin, Kyoji Fukao, “International Comparison in Historical Perspective: Reconstructing the 1934-36 Benchmark Purchasing Power Parity for Japan, Korea and Taiwan”
  • Carter, Susan B., Richard Sutch, “Why Not In Australia? Immigration and Economic Growth in the Age of Mass Migration”
  • Gupta, Bishnupriya, “Work and Efficiency in Cotton Mills: Did the Indian Entrepreneur Fail?”
  • Kling, Gerhard, Markus Baltzer, “Resiliency of the Pre-World-War I German Stock Exchange: Evidence from a Panel Vector Autoregression”
  • Seltzer, Andrew J., “Takeovers and Implicit Contracts During the First Great Merger Wave: Evidence from the Australian Banking Industry”
  • Meissner, Christopher M., J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova, “Globalization and Democracy, 1870-2000”
  • Sunder, Marco, “On the ‘Biological Standard of Living’ of the Wealthy in 19th Century America”
  • Broadberry, Stephen N., Douglas A. Irwin, “Labor Productivity in the United States and the United Kingdom During the Nineteenth Century”
  • Bakker, Gerben, , “Setting the Standard: Path Dependence and the Economics of Standardisation in the Music Industry”
  • Oxley, Les, David Greasley, “The Pastoral Boom and Long Swings in New Zealand Economic Growth: Explaining the Long Depression of the 1920s”
  • Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera, Joerg Baten, “Trends and Inequalities of Biological Welfare in North, West and East India, 1910-45”
  • Gomez_Galvarriato, Aurora, Aldo Musacchio, “Organizational Choice in a French Civil-Law Underdeveloped Economy: Partnerships, Corporations and the Chartering of Business in Mexico, 1886-1910”
  • Williamson, Jeffrey G., David Clingingsmith, “Indian De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence”
  • Silvestre, Javier, “Institutional Change and Industrial Accidents: Spain, 1900-1936”
  • Harley, C. Knick, “The North Atlantic Meat Trade and it’s Institutional Consequences, 1870-1913”
  • Riva, Angelo, “The Competition Between Genoa and Milan Stock Exchanges Before 1914: A View from Industrial Economics”
  • Saito, Kentaro, Ken’ichi Tomobe, “Market Integration and Standards of Living in Modern Japan: 1899-1939”
  • Cain, Louis P., David D. Haddock, “Those Peculiar Sports Leagues: An Economic History of Transatlantic Contrasts”
  • Taylor, Alan M., Reuven Glick, “Collateral Damage: The Economic Impact of War”
  • Sundstrom, William A., “The College Gender Gap in the United States, 1940-2000: Trends and International Comparisons”
  • Battilossi, Stefano, “The Political Economy of Financial Repression in Europe, 1950-91: A Public Finance Story?”
  • Lains, Pedro, “Portugal’s Growth Paradox, 1870-1950”
  • Khoudour-Casteras, David, “International Migration and Exchange Rate Regimes: A Comparison Between the Classical and the Interwar Gold Standards”
  • Prados de la Escosura, Leandro, Isabel Sanz-Villarroya, “Property Rights and Economic Backwardness in Argentina: A Historical Perspective”
  • Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille, Muriel Petit-Konczyk, “The Development of the Paris Bourse in the Interwar Period – What Old and New Stock Indices Tell Us”
  • Maljoo, Mohammad, “Iranian Teachers’ Responses to Job Dissatisfaction in Post-Revolutionary Iran”
  • Moser, Petra, “Do Patents Facilitate Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from the Geography of Innovations at the Crystal Palace”
  • Nicolini, Esteban A., Fernando Ramos, “An Estimation of the Money Demand for Pre-industrial Economies: The Use of Probate Inventories and the Case of Spain in the 18th Century”
  • Field, Alexander J., “Technological Change and U.S. Economic Growth: the Interwar Period and the 1990s”
  • Abramitzky, Ran, “Risk Sharing, Adverse Selection and Institutional Change: The Case of the Israeli Kibbutz”
  • Schulze, Max-Stephan, Philip Epstein, “Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the Dynamics of the International Income Distribution, 1950-1998”
  • Mora-Sitja, Natalia, “Exploring Changes in Earnings Inequality: Barcelona, 1856-1905”
  • Bignon, Vincent, “Black and Grey Markets of Illegal Exchanges in Post WWII Germany”
  • Healy, Conor, Klaus Veigel, “Bridging the Generational Divide – Currency Crisis in Theory and History”

World Congress of Cliometrics 2000

Montreal, Quebec

July 1, 2000
  • Alston, Lee J., University of Illinois, and Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University. Up and Down the Agricultural Ladder: Individual, Community, and Governmental Influences
  • Baten, Joerg, University of Munich/CESifo. Creating Firms for a New Century: Determinants of Firm Creation in Southern Germany around 1900
  • Borodkin, Leonid and Elena Safonova, Moscow State University. Dynamics of Skill Premia In the Nep Period: from payments in kind to differentiation of wages
  • Boyer, George R., Cornell University, and Timothy J. Hatton, University of Essex. New Estimates Of British Unemployment, 1870-1913
  • Cloutier, L. Martin, Ag Education & Consulting, LLC, and Paul J. Thomassin, McGill University. The Influence of Microstructure on Macrobehavior in the Evolution of Quebec’s Seigneurial Tenure, 17th-19th Centuries: A System Dynamics Perspective
  • Collins, William J., Vanderbilt University. The Political Economy of Race in the United States, 1940-1960: State-Level Fair Employment Legislation
  • Craig, Lee, Barry Goodwin, and Thomas Grennes, North Carolina State University. Mechanical Refrigeration and the Integration of Perishable Commodity Markets
  • DiMatteo, Livio, Lakehead University. Structure and Determinants of Asset Portfolios of 19th Century Wealth Holders
  • Dye, Alan, Barnard College, and Sumner LaCroix, Barnard/Hawaii. The Political Economy of Land Privatization in Argentina: 1810-1890
  • Emery, Herb, University of Calgary. The Extent of the Canadian Labour Market before 1930
  • Federico, Giovanni, European University Institute. How did they feed us? World agricultural output in the long run, 1800-1951
  • Ferderer, Peter, and Kyle Richey, Macalester College. Financial Crises and the Provision of Liquidity: The Role of Market-Makers in the Great Depression
  • Flandreau, Marc, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and Pierre Sicsic, Banque de France. Microstructure and Efficiency : The Paris Market for Call Money 1870-1914
  • Fohlin, Caroline, California Institute of Technology. The Interlocking of Bank and Industry Boards in Pre-War Germany: Asset or Liability?
  • Fraser, Monika Pohle, European University Institute, Florence. Noisy Optimists. Risk- and Information Management in Banks. The case of Germany and France in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
  • Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille, Universite d’Orleans and DELTA, and Michael Bordo, Rutgers University. Who was right-Poincari or Churchill?: The cost and benefits of French and British macro-economic policies after World War One.
  • Hoffman, Philip T., California Institute of Technology, Gilles Postel-Vinay, EHESS and INRA, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, UCLA. Information and Credit Markets: The Example of Paris in 1851
  • Huberman, Michael Universite de Montreal, and Denise Young, University of Alberta. Towards a general model of strike activity: Labour disputes in Canada, 1920-1939
  • James, John A., University of Virginia, and Christopher Hanes, Federal Reserve Board/University of Mississippi. Low Inflation and Nominal Rigidity, 1940-1995.
  • Johnson, Ryan Spencer, University of Arizona. The Black Industrial Experience In Pennsylvania, 1916-1950.
  • Kantor, Shawn, Price Fishback, University of Arizona, and Michael Haines, Colgate University. The Impact of the New Deal on the Socioeconomic Status of Children: An Analysis of Infant Mortality During the Great Depression
  • Libecap, Gary, and Zeynep Hanson, University of Arizona. Rain Follows the Plow: The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1900-1930
  • Lindert, Peter, University of California-Davis. The Political Economy of Mass Schooling before 1914
  • MacKinnon, Mary, McGill University, and Alan Green, Queen’s University. British Immigrants in Canada, 1901: The view from the east and the last, best west
  • Margo, Robert, Vanderbilt University, Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University, Fred Bateman, University of Georgia. Rising Wage Dispersion in American Manufacturing, 1860 to 1880
  • Minns, Chris, University of Essex. English language skills and labour market performance among American immigrants in 1910
  • Mitch, David, University of Maryland-Baltimore County. How Much Can Human Capital Explain?
  • Morris, Cynthia Taft, Smith College and American University. World Capitalist Growth Patterns: The Myth of the Convergence of Living Standards
  • Norrie , Kenneth and Rick Szostak, University of Alberta. Institutional Change in the Newfoundland Inshore Fishery
  • Oxley, Les, University of Waikato, and David Greasley, University of Edinburgh. Measuring New Zealand’s GDP 1865-1933: A Cointegration-Based Approach
  • Paterson, Donald G. and Ronald A. Shearer, University of British Columbia. Prices and the Transmission of Cycles in the North Atlantic Economy of the Mid-19th Century: The Canadian Case
  • Ritschl, Albrecht, University of Zurich and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? A Bayesian VAR Analysis for the U.S. Economy
  • Roses, Joan R., Universidad Carlos III. Why Isn’t the Whole Spain Industrialized? The Concentration of Spanish
    Manufacturing During the Early Industrialisation.
  • Salomatina, Sonya, Moscow Lomonosov State University. The Russian commercial banks and their client networks, 1864-1917
  • Schulze, Max-Stephan, Philip Epstein, and Peter Howlett, London School of Economics. Distribution Dynamics: Stratification, Polarization and Convergence among OECD Economies, 1900-1992
  • Steckel, Richard H., Ohio State University, and Joseph M. Prince, University of Tennessee, Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century
  • Sundstrom, William, Santa Clara University, From Servants to Secretaries: African-American Women in the U.S. Labor Market, 1940-1980
  • Tena, Antonio, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Measuring Protection Over Time. Revenue and Protective Products in the History of 19th Century Commercial Policy
  • Thomasson, Melissa, Miami University, From Sickness to Health: The Development of Health Insurance in the United States
  • Tirado, Daniel A., Universitat de Barcelona, Elisenda Paluzie, Universitat de Barcelona, and Jordi Pons. Economic integration and industrial location, Catalonia, the Spanish factory: when and why?
  • Wallis, John, University of Maryland. Constitutional Restrictions on Government Debt
  • White, Eugene, Rutgers. Making the French Pay: The Costs and Consequences of the Napoleonic Reparations
  • Wilson, Stuart, Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario. Immigration and Capital Accumulation in Canada, 1870-1913
  • Ziliak, Stephen T., Emory University. By Foot, By Ford, By Horse, By Hearse: In and Out of America’s Almshouses, 1880-1923.

World Congress of Cliometrics 1997

Munich, Germany

July 10, 1997 - July 13, 1997
  • Steven Broadberry, “How did the United States and Germany become Richer than Britain: A Sectoral Comparison of Productivity Levels, 1870-1990”
  • JH Brown, “Contracts versus Price Discrimination: The SONJ Case”
  • Gupta, “The International Tea Cartel in the Great Depression: Response of Firms in India, Ceylon and Indonesia”
  • Lains, “Exports from Third Europe: Portugal, 1850-1914”
  • P-C Hautcoeur, “Information Asymmetries, Agency Costs, and the Financing of French Firms, 1890-1939”
  • Solar, “The Birth And Death Of European Flax, Hemp And Jute Spinning Firms: The Irish And Belgian Cases”
  • Kurosu, “Marriage, Fertility and Economic Correlates in 19th Century Japan”
  • Greg Clark, “The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited: Efficiency and Institutional Evolution as Illustrated by the English Common Fields”
  • George Grantham, “On the Macroeconomics of Pre-Industrial Economies”
  • Seltzer, “The Nature and Causes of White-Collar Internal Labor Markets: Historical Evidence from the Union Bank of Australia”
  • Garskova, “Ethnic Discrimination and Job Segregation in the Labor Market in the Baku Oil Industry (Late 19th and Early 20th Century)”
  • JC Brown, “Job Tenure and Employment Structure during High Industrialization: The Case of Germany before World War I”
  • William Collins, “Wages and Labor Market Integration in Late 19th Century India”
  • Lee Alston, “Property Rights and Land Conflict: A Comparison of Settlement of the US Western and Brazilian Amazon Frontiers”
  • Sicotte, “The Spanish Royal Tobacco Monopoly in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1752-1813”
  • Tassenaar, “The Case of the Shrinking Dutchmen: Another Example of the Early Industrial Growth Puzzle”
  • Joerg Baten, “Economic Development and the Distribution of Nutritional Resources in Bavaria, 1797-1839: An Anthropometric Study”
  • Albrecht Ritschl, “Nazi Economic Imperialism and the Exploitation of the Small: Evidence for Germany’s Secret Foreign Exchange Records, 1938-1944”
  • Yousef, “Egyptian Cotton Policy in the Interwar Period: A Bayseian Perspective”
  • Ojala, “Profitability and Productivity of Shipping by Sail in the Long-run: The Case of Finland, 1750-1914”
  • Botticini, “A Loveless Economy? Intergenerational Altruism and the Dowry System in a Tuscan Town, c. 1415-1436”
  • Cha, “Integration and Segmentation in International Markets for Rice and Wheat, 1877-1994”
  • Woitek, “Integration of Grain Markets in Pre-Industrial Southern Germany”
  • Joseph Ferrie, “Migration to the Frontier in Mid-Nineteenth Century America: A Re-examination of Turner’s “Safety Valve””
  • Simone Wegge, “To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance Institutions in 19th-Century Hesse-Cassel”
  • Lance Davis, “Micro Rules and Macro Outcomes: The Impact of the Structure of Organizational Rules on the Efficiency of Security Exchanges: London, New York, and Paris, 1800-1914”
  • Pammer, “Austrian Capital in Hungary, 1850-1914”
  • Roses, “The Early Phases of Catalan Industrialisation: A Growth Accounting Approach, 1830-1861”
  • Treble, “Productivity in British Coal Mining: Evidence from Microdata, Co. Durham, 1890-93”
  • Federico, “Was Italy a Protectionist Country?”
  • Philip Hoffman, “What do Notaries do? Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751”
  • Rees, “The Puzzle of Slave Heights in Ante-bellum America”
  • Marc Flandreau, “Central Bank Independence and Market Discipline Under the European Gold Standard 1880-1914”
  • Hefeker, “The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism: The German Reich from Unification to Default”
  • Joel Mokyr, “Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850”
  • Robert McGuire, “An Exploratory Essay on the Role of Diseases in the Economics and History of American Slavery”
  • Nathan Sussman, “Exchange Rate Regimes, Inflationary Expectations, Fisher’s Hypothesis and the Gibson Paradox: Evidence from the British Consol Market, 1790-1825”
  • James Foreman-Peck, “The Supply of and Demand for French Entrepreneurship in the 19th Century”
  • Adam Klug, “How Could Irving Fisher Have Been So Wrong? Forecasting the Great Depression with Evidence from the Railroad Shippers Forecasts”
  • Price Fishback, “The Political Economy of New Deal Expenditures: A Preliminary and Exploratory Investigation”
  • Brandt, “Credit and Insurance in Rural China”
  • Shanahan, “In Search of Kuznets’ Curve: A Reexamination of the Distribution of Wealth in the United States between 1650 and 1950”
  • Trevor Dick, “Capital Imports and the Jacksonian Economy: A New View of the Balance of Payments”
  • Michael Haupert, “The Question of Note Issue in American Free Banks”

World Congress of Cliometrics 1989

July 1, 1989
  • Lee Alston and Joseph Ferrie, “The Agriculture Ladder in the Early 20th Century: A Re-Examination with Some Old Data”
  • Morris Altman, “Average Plant Size in Canadian Manufacturing”
  • Francisco Alcala and Carles Sudria-Triay, “The Spanish Economy During the First World War: A New Approach”
  • Francesca Antolin, “Electricity and Economic Growth: A View from Spain”
  • J. T. Bompard, T. Magnac, and G. Postel-Vinay, “A Model of Seasonal Labour Supply to Industry in Mid-19th Century France”
    Loren Brandt and Barbara Sands, “Structure and Performance of Three Early 20th Century Chinese Rural Economies: A Network Approach
  • J. M. Chevet, “Political Economics of Wheat Prices at the End of the 19th Century”
  • Lance Davis, Robert Gallman, and Teresa Hutchins, “The Entrepreneurial Factor in Productivity Growth: American Whaling, 1816-1906”
  • Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena, “On the Accuracy of Historical International Foreign Trade Statistics: Morgenstern Revisited”
  • Stefano Fenoaltea, “Europe in the African Mirror: The Slave Trade and the Rise of Feudalism”
  • Robert Fogel, “Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger”
  • James Foreman-Peck, “Insiders and Outsiders: Some Institutional Economics of International Migration in the 19th and 20th Centuries”
  • Alan Green and David Green, “Immigration and Regional Growth in Canada and the U.S.”
  • Avner Greif, “Contractual Problems and Non-Market Economic Institutions in Medieval Long-distance Trade: Theory and Historical Application”
  • Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson, “What Explains Wage Gaps Between Farm and City: Exploring the Todaro Model with American Evidence, 1890-1941”
  • Philip Hoffman, “The Productivity of Agriculture in France, 1500-1800”
  • M. Kimura, “Ethnic Income Distribution in Korea and Taiwan in the 1930s: An Unfavorable Change for Japanese Colonizers?”
  • Richard Kohl, “A Counterfactual Analysis of the 1982 Debt Crisis: The Case of Brazil”
  • Pedro Lains, “How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth, 1850-1913”
  • Gary Libecap, “The First Consumer Quality Guarantees by the Federal Government: The Meat Inspection Acts of 1890 and 1891”
  • Marvin McInnis, “Competition for the British Timber Market, 1850-1900”
  • Mary MacKinnon, “Internal Labour Markets at the Canadian Pacific Railroad?”
  • Angus Maddison, “Economic Growth in the 20th Century”
  • Akira Motomura, “Reputation Building and Coinage Depreciation in Early Modern Spain”
  • Douglass North, “Cliometrics and Institutional History”
  • John Nye, “Optimal Tariff Calculations and the 1860 Anglo-French Treaty of Commerce”
  • Kevin O’Rourke, “Did the Great Irish Famine Matter?”
  • Gerdo della Paolera, “How the Argentine Economy Performed During the International Gold Standard: A Re-Examination”
  • William N. Parker, “Econometric History: The View From Here”
  • Michael Percy and Richard Szostak, “The Abolition of Seigniorial Tenure in Canada East: Why 1854?”
  • Gunnar Persson, “Labour Productivity in Medieval Agriculture Before the Plague: The Case of Tuscany and the Low Countries”
  • Joshua Rosenbloom, “One Market or Many? Quantitative Evidence of Labor Market Integration, 1870-1898”
  • Martin C. Spechler, “The Economic Advantages of Being Peripheral: Subordinate Nations in Multinational Empires”
  • William A. Sundstrom, “Wage Flexibility and Labor Market Adjustments in the Depression of 1893”
  • John Treble, “The Pit and the Pendulum: Arbitration in the British Coal Industry, 1893-1914”
  • M. C. Urquardt, “The Fundamentals of Canadian Development”
  • Francois Velde and David Weir, “The Financial Market and Government Debt in France, 1750-1793”
  • Thomas Weiss, “Economic Growth Before 1840: Revised Conjectures”
  • Robert Whaples, “The Problem of Old Age: Older Men, Retirement, and the Industrial Scrap Heap”
  • Warren C. Whatley, “Black Strikebreaking and the Origins of the American Labor Movement”

World Congress of Cliometrics 1985

July 1, 1985
  • Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman, “Land and the Development of Mid-19th Century American Agriculture in the Northern States”
  • Stephen DeCanio, “Labor Mobility and Peonage in the Postbellum South”
  • Trevor Dick, “Consumer Behavior in the 19th Century: Ontario Workers 1885-1889”
  • Scott Eddie, “From Tax Exemption to Tax Favoritism? The Nobility’s Holdings of Agriculture circa 1910”
  • Barry Eichengreen and Jeffrey Sachs, “Exchange Rates and Economic Recovery in the 1930s”
  • Stefano Fenoaltea, “Public Works Construction in Italy, 1861-1913: New Evidence on the International Kuznets Cycle”
  • George Grantham, “Agricultural Growth During the Industrial Revolution–Evidence from Mid-19th Century France”
  • Elizabeth Hoffman and Ann Carlos, “Bargaining to a Joint Profit-Maximum Duopoly Contract Under Noncomplete Information: A Case Study from the North American Fur Trade, 1804-1821”
  • Takenori Inoki, “The Opening of Railways and the Decline of Commercial City–The Case of Ohtsu City in Japan: 1880-1894”
  • William Kennedy, “Portfolio Behavior and Economic Development in the Late 19th Century–A Comparison of Great Britain and Germany: Hypothesis and Conjecture”
  • Bradley Lewis, “Waterways, Railroads and Public Choice in the 19th Century U.S.”
  • Gary Libecap, “Did the Texas Railroad Commission Cartelize Crude Oil Production between 1933 and 1973?”
  • Robert McGuire and Robert Ohsfeldt, “Self-Interest, Voting Behavior and the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution”
  • Mary MacKinnon, “Poor Law Policy, Unemployment and Pauperism”
  • Matao Miyamoto, “The Development of the Rice Market in Tokugawa Japan”
  • Jon Moen, “Changes in the Productivity of Southern Agriculture: 1860 to 1880”
  • John Nye, “Firm Size and Economic Backwardness: A New Look at the French Industrialization Debate”
  • Cormac O’Grada and J. Peter Neary, “Protection, Economic War, and Structural Change: The 1930s in Ireland”
  • Donald Paterson and Ronald Shearer, “The Money Supply in Mid-19th Century Canada: Estimates and Their Implications”
  • Hugh Rockoff and Geofrey Mills, “Price Controls in the U.S. and the U.K. During World War II”
  • Graeme Donald Snooks and John McDonald, “How Artificial Were the Tax Assessments in Doomesday England? The Case of Essex”
  • Kenneth Snowden, “Random Walk Tests of the American Stock Market, 1871-1913”
  • Richard Sutch and Roger L. Ransom, “Retirement, Occupational Change and Old Age Dependency Among American Workers of the Late 19th Century”
  • John Wallis and Dan Benjamin, “Did FDR Prolong the Great Depression?”
  • Peter Wardley, “Productivity, Mechanization, and the Labour Market in the Extractive Industries of the North East of England, 1874-1914”
  • Martha Weidner Williams, “Improvements in Western European Diets and Economic Growth”
  • David Weir, “Markets and Mortality in France”
  • Eugene White, “Financing the French Revolution: A New Look at the Assignat Inflation”