Preliminary Programme

Showing: Economics (all days)
Wed 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 26 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 27 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 24 March 2004 8:30
G-1 ECO07 Different trajectories in modern economic growth: Growth strategies and institutional values in the 20th C.
Room G
Network: Economics Chair: Keetie Sluyterman
Organizers: Jan-Pieter Smits, Jeroen Touwen Discussants: -
Jari Eloranta : The Importance of Democratic Institutions in Determining Central Government Spending, 1870-1938.
Richard Griffiths : Introduction and comments: Theoretical models and aspects of institutions and growth
Camilla Josephson : Economic Policy and Productivity Growth in different Manufacturing Industries in Sweden 1950-1994
Jan-Pieter Smits, Ewout Frankema : The dynamics of non-catching up: Institutional impediments to modern economic growth in the less developed countries during the 20th century
Jeroen Touwen : Welfare state and market economy in the Netherlands and Europe, 1945-2000



Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:45
G-2 ECO01 Luxury Production
Room G
Networks: Economics , Chair: Nikolinka Fertala
Organizer: Salvatore Ciriacono Discussants: -
Renata Ago : Cultural commodities in late Renaissance Rome
Bruno Blondé : Consumption, Consumer durables and luxury production in the Soutern Netherlands, 17th-18th centuries
Salvatore Ciriacono : Luxury production, consumption and the art market in Early Modern Europe. A Synthesis
Brendan Dooley : Products and Materials in Circulation: Don Giovanni de' Medici as connoisseur and entrepreneur
Fabio Giusberti : The Bolognese veil as luxury product, XVIth- XVIIIth centuries



Wednesday 24 March 2004 16:30
G-4 ECO03 The Management of Economic Crisis
Room G
Network: Economics Chair: Ulf Christian Ewert
Organizer: Ulf Christian Ewert Discussant: James Dunlevy
Iris Borowy : The World Economic Crisis: a Health Concern?
Alexander Engel : Price fluctuations, adaptation crises and changing patterns of behaviour in colonial commodities markets of the 18th and 19th centuries
Jürgen Nautz : : The influence of political culture on the management of economic crises. A comparison between Austria, Hungary, Sweden (and Germany).
Elke Viebrock : Unemployment policy in Great Britain and Sweden in the interwar years



Thursday 25 March 2004 8:30
I-5 ECO04 Learning in Economic History: Apprenticeship, Training and Learning by doing in Europa and North America
Room N1 O1
Networks: Economics , Technology Chair: Aravinda Guntupalli
Organizer: David Mitch Discussant: Anne Mccants
Bert de Munck : Apprenticeship and the economical and symbolical survival strategies of guilds in the Southern Netherlands, 16th - 18th century
Celia Lozano Lopez De Medrano : Technical education policies in Spain, 1857-1931



Thursday 25 March 2004 10:45
G-6 ECO05 Learning in Economic History: 19th and 20th Centuries
Room G
Networks: Economics , Technology Chair: Margaryta Korolenko
Organizer: David Mitch Discussant: Cornelis Disco
Peter Meyer : Episodes and Institutions of Collective Invention
David Mitch : Practice versus Theory: Developments in Legal and Medical Education in the U.S. and the U.K. 1850 to 1950.
Philip Scranton : Technological Learning in aircraft and aerospace projects, 1940-1970



Thursday 25 March 2004 14:15
M-7 ECO06 Learning in Economic History: Policy
Room M
Network: Economics Chair: Michael Oliver
Organizer: David Mitch Discussant: Richard Griffiths
David Ellis : EU Policy Learning and the Use of Expertise
Lars Jonung : Looking ahead through the Rear-View Mirror: Swedish Stabilization Policy as a Learning Process, 1970-1995
Håkan Lobell, Lars Pettersson : Monetary Events and Debates in Sweden and England 1779 -1850.- A Comparative Approach to the Development of Monetary Theory.
Hugh Pemberton, Michael Oliver : Learning and Change in 20th Century British Economic Policy



Friday 26 March 2004 10:45
V-10 ECO09 The costs and benefits of merchant guilds, 1300-1800
Room Cie2
Network: Economics Chair: Regina Grafe
Organizers: Oscar Gelderblom, Regina Grafe Discussants: -
Ann Fender : The Hudson's Bay Company's Institutional Adaptation to Economic Conditions
Donald Harreld : Merchant and Guild: the shift from privileged group to individual entrepreneur in sixteenth-century Antwerp
Erik Lindberg : The Revival of Guilds: A Preface to a Study of Institutions and Trade in the Baltic Area, c. 1650-1880
Sheilagh Ogilvie, Roberta Dessi : Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds
Peter Stabel : Profiting from collectivity: the costs and benifits of merchant guilds at the Bruges market (14th - 15th centuries)



Friday 26 March 2004 16.30
V-12 ECO11 Migration, Communal Leadership and Institutional Developments in the Argentine-Brasilian Social Economic Context
Room Cie2
Networks: Economics , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Diana Epstein
Organizer: Celia López Discussant: Diana Epstein
Sonia Freitas : Migrant Memorial
Marilia Klaumann Canovas : The Gallego migrant in the pualista cultural coffee world. 1870-1930
Celia López, Javier Patricio Borche : European Leadership in the beginning- development and projection of Argentine agrarian cooperation, 1900-1960.
Lilia Zanotti De Medrano : From Migrant to Business Man: Nicolas Mihanovich's fluvial navy arm, XIX century



Saturday 27 March 2004 8:30
M-13 ECO12 Oil companies
Room M
Network: Economics Chair: Joost Jonker
Organizers: - Discussants: -
James Bamberg : Churchill, Thatcher and BP: Standing Guard over a National Champion
Keetie Sluyterman, Peter Koudijs : You win some, you lose some: the relation between oil prices and investment in the upstream and downstream busines
Jan Luiten van Zanden : A quite succesful transnational merger. The formation of Royal Dutch Shell in 1907



Saturday 27 March 2004 10:45
B-14 ECO13 Innovation
Room B
Network: Economics Chair: Markus Baltzer
Organizer: Uwe Fraunholz Discussants: -
Uwe Fraunholz : From Fat Gap to Protein Gap: Single Cell Protein and the failure of the national innovation system in the GDR
Kirsten Labuske, Et Al. : Did Network Externalities Turn Germany from a Poor into a Rich Country? Evidence from Patent and Capital Market Data
Manuel Schramm : Quantifying university - industry relations in 20th century Germany: honorary doctorates as indicator



Saturday 27 March 2004 14:15
G-15 ECO14 Capital Market Anomalies
Room G
Network: Economics Chair: Leonid Borodkin
Organizer: Joerg Baten Discussants: Stefano Battilossi, Leonid Borodkin
Gerhard Kling, Markus Baltzer : Efficiency of the pre-World War I German capital market: Applying a simple fad model
Margaryta Korolenko, Joerg Baten & Peter Beckschaefer : War, Crisis, and the Capital Market: The Anomaly of the Size Effect 1880-1990
Lyndon Moore, Steve Juh : 60 years before Black Scholes: How well did investors price warrants on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange



Saturday 27 March 2004 16:30
I-16 ECO15 New Developments
Room N1 O1
Network: Economics Chair: Joerg Baten
Organizers: - Discussant: Douglas Puffert
Gerben Bakker : Setting the standard: Path dependence and the economics of standardisation in the music industry
Joseph Ferrie : A Tale of Two Labor Markets: Career Mobility in the U.K. (1851-81) and U.S.
Rick Garside : Bitter harvest? Japan's economic crisis in historical perspective
Jens-Wilhelm Wessels : Economic Policy and Performance in Inter-war Austria. The History of Austrian Industrial Joint-Stock Companies in the Global Economy between 1918-1938


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