Preliminary Programme

Showing: room G (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



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



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'



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?



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



Thursday 24 April 2014 16.30 - 17.30
G-8 ELI00 Network meeting Elites and forerunners
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Network: Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



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



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
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



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



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


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