Preliminary Programme

Showing: Economic History (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
G-1 ECO05 Regional Service Economies in the Baltic-North Sea Area during the Age of Mercantilism
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Philipp Roessner
Organizers: - Discussant: Javier Cuenca-Esteban
Jari Ojala : Converging the North European Trade, 17th to 19th Century: New Evidence from the Danish Sound
Klas Rönnbäck : Productivity Change in Early Modern Shipping – the Speed of Shipping in the Baltic Trades
Werner Scheltjens : The Changing Structure of Stettin’s International Trade and its Impact on the Pomeranian Littoral in the 18th Century
Toshiaki Tamaki, Yuta Kikuchi : The Commercial Significance of Hamburg: From 1730s to French Revolutionary Wars
George M. Welling : Comparing Amsterdam’s Atlantic and Baltic Trade in the Last Quarter of the 18th Century



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
G-2 ECO01 GDP, Sustainability, Well-Being, and Clio Infra: A Long-Term Economic Historical Perspective
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Networks: Economic History , World History Chair: Jan Luiten van Zanden
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jutta Bolt : Comparing Current and Constant GDP Series across Time and Space: Presenting a Historical Dataset on Nominal GDP for a Global Set of Countries
Kees Klein Goldewijk : Environmental Sustainability Indicators over the Past 500 Years


H-2 ECO14b Social Mobility 2: in the North Atlantic, 1850-1911
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Social Inequality Chair: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Organizers: - Discussant: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Kris Inwood, Luiza Antonie, Robert Evan and Peter Baskerville : Social Mobility in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1850-1911
Evan Roberts, Peter Baskerville & Kris Inwood : Social Mobility in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1850-1911
Ulla Rosén : A “Peasant Road to Agrarian Capitalism”
Kevin Schürer, Tatiana Penkova : Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis of Household Structure and Variation in England and Wales, 1881



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
G-3 ECO02 Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific Seaboard
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Catia Antunes
Organizers: - Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Kate Ekama, Erik Odegard : Geographies of Opposition: Interaction between Free Agents and the Dutch East and West India Companies
Alejandro Garcia Monton : Protecting Privileges, Contesting Exclusion: Clashing Transatlantic Networks within and across 17th Century Empires
Ana Sofia Ribeiro : Spreading Trading Investment around the Globe. A Comparative Study of Portuguese Merchants’ Cooperative Strategies in the East and in the Atlantic, 1580-1640
Joris van den Tol : Empire State of Mind: Colonial Collaboration between Free Agents and Dutch State Chartered Companies in Formosa and Brazil


H-3 ECO17 edu Private and/or Public Funding of Schools?
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Education and Childhood Chair: David Mitch
Organizer: Ingrid Brühwiler Discussant: David Mitch
Ingrid Brühwiler : Teachers’ Salaries and their Diverse Funding: Swiss Examples from c. 1800 - 1850
Gabriele Cappelli : One Size (didn’t) fit All: Municipal Institutions, Fiscal Capacity and Primary Schooling in Italy’s Provinces, c. 1871 – 1911
Madeleine Michaëlsson : Funding of Elementary Schools at Swedish Ironwork Communities, 1850-1930
Johannes Westberg : Taxation, Loans and Donations: the Funding of Swedish Schoolhouses, 1840-1900


I-3 LAB01a A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Change across Eurasia, 1840–1940 I
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Erik Buyst : Changing Occupational Structure and the Industrial Revolution in Belgium, 1846-1910
Dimitrios Kopanas, Leda Papastefenaki : Occupational and Structural Change in Greece, 1840 – 1940, A Gender Perspective
Alexis Litvine : Assessing Changes in the Occupational Structure of France during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
G-4 ECO03 Roundtable: Re-Thinking Merchants and Institutions in the Medieval and Early Modern European Economy, 1250–1650
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Catia Antunes
Organizers: Flavio Miranda, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz Discussant: Andrea Caracausi
Angela Huang : From ‘Merchants Good’ to Trademark: Institutions in Medieval Textile Trade.
Carsten Jahnke : The Hanse, a Merchant Institution for Cross-cultural Trade in the Eastern Baltic?
Christof Jeggle : Institutions and Organizations in Seventeenth-Century Transalpine Trade
Ulla Kypta : Coping with Divergence: Merchants and their Institutions at the Boundary between Lower and Higher Germany
Flavio Miranda : Merchants and Institutions in Fifteenth-Century Portugal
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz : 'Institutions of (Mercantile) Conflict Resolution. The Case of a Hanseatic Town (Danzig) in Context'


I-4 LAB01b A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Change Across Eurasia, 1840–1940 II
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Esin Uyar & Berkay Kucukbaslar : Occupational and Structural Change from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
Gijs Kessler, Timur Valetov : Occupational Change and Industrialization: from Russia to the Soviet Union (1897-1959)
Osamu Saito, Yoshifumi Usami : Changing Composition of the Workforce in British India, 1881-1931: with Special Reference to the Relationship between Principal and Subsidiary Occupations
Tokihiko Settsu, Osamu Saito : Changing Occupational Structure and Sectoral Labour Productivity Differentials in Japan’s Economic Growth before World War II



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
G-5 ECO10 The Growth of Public Finances 1850-1950
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Pertti Haapala
Organizers: - Discussant: Christopher Lloyd
Nadeem Aftab, Tehreem Husain : Land and Sind: A Short Account of Legal and Fiscal Regulation of Inherited Wealth in British India
Jari Eloranta : From Globalization to Crises: Public Debts and the Development of Financial Markets, from the 19th to the 21st Century
Ola Honningdal Grytten : Growth in Public Finances as Tool for Control: Norwegian Development 1850-1950
Matti Hannikainen, Sakari Heikkinen : Public Finances before the Welfare State: Finland 1850–1950
Hideaki Ito : The First Income Tax and Britons
Gudmundur Jonsson : Public Finance and Economic Development in Iceland 1870-1940



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
G-6 ECO06a Agency, Gender, Human Capital and World Economic Development I
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Sarah Carmichael
Organizers: Sarah Carmichael, Lotte van der Vleuten Discussant: Jane Humphries
Sandra de Pleijt : Human capital and economic development in England, 1300-1900
David Mitch : Funding Schooling for All and Schooling for Girls in England, 1600 to 1850: Educational Philanthropy in Theory and Practice
Auke Rijpma : Household Structure and School Enrolment
Martina Viarengo : Closing the Gender Gap in Education: What is the State of Gaps in Labor Force Participation for Women, Wives and Mothers?


I-6 LAB04a Das Haus/Households in Practice I
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Family and Demography , Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Dag Lindström
Organizer: Karin Hassan Jansson Discussant: Maria Ågren
Joachim Eibach : Doing House and Neighbourhood
Göran Rydén : Between the Divine and the Individual: Household Practices at Different Levels in Eighteenth-Century Swedish Society
Panu Savolainen : The Spatial Shaping of Early Modern Household in an 18th Century Swedish Provincial Town
Jane Whittle : Gender, Work and the Household in Rural England c.1500-c.1700



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
G-7 ECO06b Agency, Gender, Human Capital and World Economic Development II
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Lotte van der Vleuten
Organizers: Sarah Carmichael, Lotte van der Vleuten Discussant: Tracy Dennison
Selin Dilli : The Role of Female Agency in Politics: A Global Study, 1850-2000
Felix Meier zu Selhausen : What Determines Age at Marriage in Uganda? Empirical Evidence from Colonial and Post-colonial Marriage Registers, 1908-2008
Jacob Weisdorf, Jane Humphries : What did English Women earn in the Past? A Long-term Wage Series for Unskilled Female Workers, 1260-1860


I-7 LAB04b Das Haus/Households in Practice II
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Family and Demography , Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Göran Rydén
Organizer: Karin Hassan Jansson Discussant: Ariadne Schmidt
Karin Hassan Jansson : Households in Practice: Agency and Authority in Early Modern Sweden
Dag Lindström : House, Households and Spaces in 18th Century Swedish Towns
Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen : From Household to Streets: Female Food Sellers in 18th Century Turku (Åbo)



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
E-9 ECO09 Economic Development in the Age of Nation Building: New Perspectives on the Economic History of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the Late 19th and early 20 Centuries
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Alexander Klein
Organizer: Tamás Vonyó Discussant: Alexander Klein
Tomas Cvrcek, Miroslav Zajicek : School, What is it Good for? The Politics and Economics of Public Education in 19th Century Habsburg Empire
Matthias Morys : Central Banks and Nation-states in South-East Europe, 1878 – 1928
Max-Stephan Schulze, P. Caruana-Galizia : Empires Diverging: A Spatial Analysis of Habsburg and German Regional GDP, 1870-1910
Tamás Vonyó : By how much did socialist economies underperform? A cross-country investigation’



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
G-10 ECO04 Rent Seeking Institutions and the Little Divergence: The Economic Impact of Serfdom and Guilds in Pre-industrial Europe
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Jan Luiten van Zanden
Organizer: Mikolaj Malinowski Discussants: Tracy Dennison, Jan Luiten van Zanden
Alexander Klein, Sheilagh Ogilvie : Occupational Structure in the Czech Lands Under the Second Serfdom
Mikolaj Malinowski : Serfs and the city; market conditions, surplus extraction institutions and urban growth in Poland, 1500-1772
Miguel Peman : The Rise of the Craft Guild System. Evidence from Italy, Belgian and Dutch Cities (1200-1800).
Igor Zurimendi : Abolition of Serfdom and the Growth of Cities in Eastern Europe


ZC-10 TEC01 Patents and Technological Changes
UR Altre Geschichte
Networks: Economic History , Technology Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Maurizio Lupo : Technological Innovation in a Peripheral Area: Research about Patents in the Italian Mezzogiorno during the First half of XIXth Century
Peter Meyer : Aeronautical technology flows at the start of World War I
Alessandro Nuvolari, Michelangelo Vasta : Independent Inventjon in Italy during the Liberal Age, 1861-1913
Jochen Streb, Francesco Cinnirella : The Role of Human Capital in Prussia’s Economic Development: a Substitute for or a Complement to Technology?



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
D-11 AFR05 Political Economy and Social Conflict in Global and Transnational Perspective
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Economic History , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , World History Chair: Massimo Zaccaria
Organizers: - Discussant: Hanan Sabea
Luca Ciabarri : War and the Shaping of the Extraverted Society. Globalization in Somali-lands and Local-level Transformations in the New State of Somaliland
Sophia du Plessis, Stan du Plessis : Which comes First: Good Governance or Prosperity? A Case Study from the South African Republic and the Orange Free State
Giulia Meloni, Johan Swinnen : The Rise and Fall of the World’s Largest Wine Exporter (And Its Institutional Legacy)


G-11 ECO11 The Political Economy of the Post-War Welfare State, 1950-2000
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Social Inequality Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizer: Jeroen Touwen Discussants: -
Pierre Eichenberger : Employers and the Shaping of the Welfare State : The Swiss Post-war Experience (1948-1960)
Dennie Oude Nijhuis : Labor, Capital and the Notion of the Social Wage
Jeroen Touwen : Employers' Preferences in the Welfare State, 1920-1940
Bruno Valat : Were Health Expenditures Keynesian ? Questions and Evidence from the French Post-War experience



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
G-12 ECO12 New Views on Economic Development before and around WWI
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Jochen Streb
Organizers: - Discussants: Andrea Maestrejuan, Matthias Morys
Joël Floris, Kaspar Staub and Ulrich Woitek : Birth Weight as an Anthropometric Indicator for Socio-Economic Inequality in Basle during WWI
Tobias Alexander Jopp : Turning Points in World War I: Some Evidence from the Capital Markets
Alexandra Zhereb : Formation and Collapse of Capitalistic Institutions at the Turn of 19th to 20th Century in Russia



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
G-13 ECO13 Economic Aspects of Nationhood
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Theory Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizer: Oliver Kühschelm Discussant: Stefan Berger
Rosemarijn Hoefte : The Branding of a Young Nation in South America. The Case of Suriname
Aappo Kähönen : Optimal Planning, Optimal Economy, Optimal Life? The Kosygin Reform 1965–1972
Oliver Kühschelm : Nationalising Consumption: Buy-national Campaigns in a Comparative Perspective


R-13 TEC02 Meet the author session: Two books on Energy, Economy and European History
Hörsaal 42 second floor
Networks: Economic History , Technology Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari
Organizers: - Discussant: Alessandro Nuvolari
Astrid Kander : Kander, Malanima & Warde, Power to the People. Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries. Princeton University Press, 2014
Eric van der Vleuten : Högselius, Hommels, Kaijser & vd Vleuten, eds. The Making of Europe's Critical Infrastructure. Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
G-14 ECO15 Pawnbroking in Pre-modern Europe: from Economic Considerations to Moral Connotations
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Economic History Chair: Jochen Streb
Organizer: Mauro Carboni Discussant: Jochen Streb
Mauro Carboni : Lending to the Poor, lending to the Affluent: a Moral Approach to Consumer Credit
Claude Denjean : Funding Poverty, funding Business
Juan Vicente Garcia Marsilla : From Medieval Pawn Broking to "Mercy Arks"" in the Hispanic Kingdoms (XIII-XVI Centuries)
Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli : Religious Piety or Common Interest? At the Roots of Consumer Credit
Donatella Strangio : “Buon Governo” and Social Peace: Granting Cheap Loans to the Lower Classes in Rome



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
G-15 ECO16 Private Entrepreneurs in Early Modern Europe: Ideologies and Arguments for Private and Public Organization
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Magnus Linnarsson
Organizers: Mats Hallenberg, Magnus Linnarsson Discussant: Magnus Linnarsson
Mats Hallenberg : Self-interest Versus the Common Good: Political Disputes concerning the Organization of Public Services in Sweden, 1600–1800
Thomas Kaiserfeld : Manufacturing Manure: Ideologies of Science in Support of Public and Private Saltpetre Production
Erik Lindberg : The Market and the Lighthouse: Public Goods in Historical Perspective
David Parrott : Military Contracting and Early Modern Entrepreneurship


S-15 LAB36a Work and Property in Europe: Households and Communities (1500-1900)
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Organizer: Fabrice Boudjaaba Discussant: Luca Mocarelli
Lorena Álvarez Delgado : Friendship and Charity as Ingredients to Enlarge Family Links. Patronage and Artificial Kinship in 16th-Century Northern Spain.
Maria Luisa Ferrari, Gloria Vivenza : Property, Labour and Society: Patterns of Organization and Hierarchy in Italy and Great Britain
Dimitris Kalantzopoulos : Domestic Work in Cyprus, 1900-1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and Colonial Institutional Framework
Claudio Lorenzini : Who Practises in the Wood? Community Ties and Work in the Alpine Area of the Republic of Venice in Modern Age



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
G-16 ECO08 Innovation and Human Capital
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Technology Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Harry Kitsikopoulos : The Diffusion of Newcomen Engines, 1706-73: A Reassessment
Andrea Maestrejuan : Inventive Activity and Teamwork: Managing Employee Inventors in the Age of Corporate Intellectual Property Rights
Chiara Martinelli : Industrialization and Human Capital: the Role of Vocational and Workers' Tuition in Italian Industrialization (1861-1914)
Roberto Rossi : Productivity and Market in the Barcelona's Calico Printing in the Second Half of the XVIII Century


S-16 LAB36b Work and Property in Europe: Appropriations and Commodification (1500-1900)
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Michela Barbot
Organizer: Michela Barbot Discussant: Andrea Caracausi
Daniele Andreozzi, Loredana Paraniti : The Fluid Divergencies. Property and Work in Trieste (1850 - 1900)
Joern Janssen : Dynamics of Historical Transformation of Labour-Property Relations in Europe.
Niccolò Mignemi : Claiming for Land and Labour: Tenant Farming Co-operatives in Italy at the Beginning of 20th Century


U-16 SOC05 Economic Inequality in the Early Modern World
Hörsaal 47 second floor
Networks: Economic History , Social Inequality Chair: Osamu Saito
Organizer: Hulya Canbakal Discussant: Osamu Saito
Guido Alfani : Long-term Trends in Economic Inequality in Western Europe: the Case of Piedmont, Fourteenth - Eighteenth Centuries
Hulya Canbakal, Alpay Filiztekin : Wealth and Inequality in the Ottoman Balkans and Anatolia, 1500-1840
Carlos Santiago-Caballero, Eva Fernandez : Economic Inequality in Madrid, 1500-1850


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