Preliminary Programme

Showing: Economics (all days)
Wed 22 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 23 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

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

All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:45
D-2 ECO01 Growth & Inequality
Room D
Networks: Economics , Social Inequality Chair: Paul M Hohenberg
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Joerg Baten, Dorothee Crayen : Inequality and Growth
Concha Betran, Maria A. Pons & Javier Ferri : Wage Inequality and Globalisation: What can we learn from the Past?: A calibration general equilibrium model approach
Bruno Blondé, G. Verbist : Economic growth and social inequality in the early modern Southern Netherlands



Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:15
N-3 ECO02 Increasing or decreasing inequality
Room N
Network: Economics Chair: Ulbe Bosma
Organizers: - Discussants: Joerg Baten, David Mitch
Peter Foldvari, Bas Van Leeuwen : Economic growth in three worlds: On the efficiency of human capital in the USA, Hungary and Indonesia
Ewout Frankema : The Double Income Gap: Relative sector and factor income shares in twentieth century Latin America
Daan Marks : The service sector and economic growth in Indonesia from an international perspective
Jan-Pieter Smits : Exploring international differences in economic performance from a “social capital” perspective: 1910-2000



Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30
A-4 ECO09 Explorations in Economic History
Room A
Network: Economics Chair: Joerg Baten
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anne Mccants : Public Goods versus Private Spending:Surplus production, capital accumulation, and monumental architecture in Medieval Europe
Daniel Schiffman : Monetary Instability and the Evolution of Jewish Monetary Doctrine: The Ottoman Empire, 1500-1700



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
K-5 ECO06 From Economics to History - and back? Looking for feedback into theory
Room K
Network: Economics Chair: Dorothee Crayen
Organizers: Alexander Engel, Ulf Christian Ewert Discussants: -
Alexander Engel : A Tale of Two Disciplines. The Story of Price History in the 1920s and 30s
Ulf Christian Ewert, Stephan Selzer : The Hansa as a Virtual Organisation: Some Historical Remarks on the Network Paradigm
Douglas Puffert : Paths Through History: Contingency in Economic Outcomes
Jochen Streb : Incentives versus Transaction Costs: Regulating Construction in the Third Reich



Thursday 23 March 2006 10:45
N-6 FAM04 International Families IV. The management of Capital
Room N
Networks: Economics , Family and Demography Chair: Simon Teuscher
Organizer: Ghislaine Lydon Discussant: Laurence Fontaine
Oscar Gelderblom : Family Capital and the Expansion of Trade in Pre-Industrail Europe
Ghislaine Lydon : Family Finance or the Limits of Cooperative Behavior in nineteenth Century Trans-Saharan Trade
Huibert Schijf : International Jewish Bankers 1850-1914, the Case of the Koenigswarters in Amsterdam
Francesca Trivellato : Marriage, Dowry, and Diaspora: Sephardic Merchant Families in Livorno (17th and 18th Centuries)



Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15
N-7 ECO07 Dynamics of Regional Interaction in Northwestern Europe
Room N
Network: Economics Chair: Paul M Hohenberg
Organizers: - Discussant: Anne Mccants
Martin Bellamy : Labour migration and technology transfer in early modern Danish shipbuilding
Leos Müller : Scandinavian shipping and markets for shipping services, 1700-1800
David Ormrod : Commercial growth and the long industrial revolution: a world systems approach
Christiaan van Bochove, Jelle van Lottum : Shifting focus? The dynamics of economic interaction in the early modern North Sea region



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
D-10 ECO08 Human Capital and Engineering
Room D
Network: Economics Chair: Jan-Pieter Smits
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Simon Niklas Hellmich : A Co-evolutionary Approach to Institutional and Technological Change in Industrial Regimes: Vocational Training, Technologies and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany 1900-1933
Camilla Josephson : The productivity slowdown and the catching up in Swedish manufacturing industries 1952-2001
Nikolaus Wolf, Steve Redding & Daniel Sturm : Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
P-11 ECO05 Role of Gender in Economic and Social development
Room P
Network: Economics Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maria Ågren : Protecting Women Through Their Legal Property Rights -- Or In Other Ways? Sweden in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compared to some other European countries
Amy Erickson : Identifying women's occupations in early modern London
Ariadne Schmidt : Female access to the labour market and guilds in the early modern Netherlands.
Maria Sjöberg : "Mutter Courage" - Facts and Fiction



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
K-12 ECO10 Historical Economic Geography
Room K
Network: Economics Chair: Oscar Gelderblom
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Elisende Paluzie, Miren Lafourcade : European Integration, FDI and the Internal Geography of Trade: Evidence from Western-European Border Regions
Joan R. Roses, Daniel A. Tirado : Regional Convergence and Industrialization in Spain: a long-run



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
L-13 LAB05 Partners in Business. Husbands and wives working together. Part I: Married couples working together in commerce, 1500-1800
Room L
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Margaret Hunt
Lili-Annè Aldman : Who’s the boss? Merchants and shopkeepers in Stockholm during early modern times
Christina Dalhede : Merchant Families in Gothenburg and Lübeck in Early Modern Time
Matthias Steinbrink : Representative or merchant woman? Verena Meltinger from Basel
Danielle van den Heuvel : The cooperation of spouses in commerce in the Dutch Republic



Saturday 25 March 2006 10:45
L-14 LAB06 Partners in Business. Husbands and wives working together. Part II: The division of labour between spouses in industry, 1500-1800
Room L
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Danielle van den Heuvel
Organizers: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Ulrich Pfister
Christof Jeggle : Households, Workshops, and the Division of Labour between Spouses in the Linen Trades in Munster/Westphalia in the 17. Century
Leigh Shaw-Taylor : The roles of husbands, wives and widows in manufacturing businesses in mid-nineteenth century England
Marjolein van Dekken : Husbands and wives working together: The production and selling of beverages in the early modern Northern Netherlands.
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk : Couples co-operating? Dutch textile workers and the family economy, c. 1600-1800



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
K-15 ECO12 The role of institutions and networks in technological learning
Room K
Network: Economics Chair: Joerg Baten
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Celia Lozano Lopez De Medrano : Location of vocational schools and regional industrialization in Spain, 1857-1936.
David Mitch : The Economic Causes and Consequences of theRise of University Trained and Professionally certified engineers in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Jeroen Touwen : Learning and urgency: policy renewal in the Netherlands, 1970-1985


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