Chiaki Moriguchi (Northwestern University)

Canceled and to be rescheduled.

Friday, October 5 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Loren Brandt

Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University)

Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837

Friday, March 15 2002 00:00–05:30, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Greg Clark (UC-Davis)

The Meaning and Significance of the Industrial Revolution.

Thursday, March 21 2002 03:30–05:00, Coach House Conference Room

Series: Economic history/Macroeconomics, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Gregor Smith (Queen's University)

Transfer Problem Dynamics: Macroeconomics of the Franco-Prussian War Indemnity (joint with Michael B. Devereux)

Friday, October 4 2002 02:00–03:30, Coach House Conference Room

Series: Economic history/Macroeconomics, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Michelle Alexopoulos (Harvard)

Centralized Wage Bargaining and Structural Change in Sweden

Thursday, December 5 2002 16:10–17:30, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Mauricio Drelichman (Northwestern)

The Curse of Moctezuma: American Silver and the Dutch Disease, 1501-1650

Friday, January 24 2003 14:40–16:00, Coach House Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Ann Carlos (University of Colorado - Boulder)

Purchasing Strategies: Royal African Company Trade, 1672-1699 (joint with Yongmin Chen and Ron Smith)

Friday, March 7 2003 14:30–16:00, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Brad DeLong (Berkeley)

SEMINAR IS CANCELLED

Friday, March 21 2003 02:00–04:00, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Series: Economic history/Macroeconomics, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

John Munro (University of Toronto)

SEMINAR MOVED TO NEXT THURSDAY

Friday, April 11 2003 14:30–16:00, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

John Munro (University of Toronto)

The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Financial Revolution: Overcoming Impediments from Church and State

Thursday, April 17 2003 14:10–15:30, Coach House Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Larry Neal (University of Illinois-Urbana)

CANCELLED (joint with Lance Davis, Eugene White)

Friday, April 25 2003 16:10–17:30, Woodsworth, room 120

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Loren Brandt

Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University)

Constitutions and Commitment: Evidence on the Relationship between Institutions and the Cost of Capital (joint with Yishay Yusef)

Wednesday, September 24 2003 04:10–05:30, Coach House Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Loren Brandt

Chiaki Moriguchi (Dept of Economics)

Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach Their Implicit Contracts

Friday, October 31 2003 14:30–16:00, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Loren Brandt

Larry Neal (University of Illinois)

The Development of the Rules and Regulations of the London Stock Exchange, 1801-1914.

Friday, March 12 2004 12:10–01:30, Coach House Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Loren Brandt

Joseph P Ferrie (Northwestern University)

The Rich and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860

Friday, October 22 2004 14:40–16:00, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Joachim Voth (NYU-Stern)

The Speed of the Financial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank

Thursday, November 4 2004 16:10–17:30, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Michael Huberman (NYU-Stern)

Small was Beautiful: Belgian Workers and Free Trade Before 1914

Thursday, November 25 2004 16:10–17:30, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Michael Huberman (University of Montreal)

Small was Beautiful: Belgian Workers and Free Trade before 1914

Thursday, November 25 2004 16:10–17:30, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Bruce Campbell (Queen's University of Belfast)

England c.1290 - a view from the periphery

Friday, February 4 2005 14:10–15:30, Coach House Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Maristella Botticini (Boston University)

From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History (joint with Zvi Eckstein (there is a 2nd empirical paper on this topic: see hyperlink))

Friday, March 11 2005 14:10–15:30, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Ken Moure (UCSB)

Curing the Thermometer: The Contrôle Économique and the Battle with French Prices, 1940-48

Thursday, March 24 2005 16:10–17:30, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Donald E. Moggridge

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA)

Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994 (joint with Thomas Piketty, Gilles Postal-Vinay)

Friday, April 1 2005 14:10–15:30, Front Conference Room

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Stan Engerman (University of Rochester)

Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-run Paths of Development (joint with Ken Sokoloff)

Friday, October 7 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Karl Gunnar Persson (University of Copenhagen)

Feeding the British: Convergence and Market Efficiency in 19th century Grain Trade (joint with Mette Ejrnaes and Soren Rich)

Thursday, November 10 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 2131

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Louis Cain (Loyola University and Northwestern)

EPIDEMICS, DEMONSTRATION EFFECTS, AND MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT IN SANITATION CAPITAL (joint with Elyce Rotella)

Friday, March 31 2006 14:10–15:30, Sidney Smith, room 1087

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Ken Sokoloff (UCLA)

Inequality and the Evolution of Institutions of Taxation: Evidence from the Economic History of the Americas (joint with Eric Zolt)

Friday, April 7 2006 13:10–14:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Bill Collins (Vanderbilt University)

The Demographic Effects of Household Electrification in the United States, 1925-60 (joint with Martha Bailey)

Friday, April 21 2006 14:10–15:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Marilyn Gerriets (University of St. Francis-Xavier)

Agriculture, Space and Scale: The Origins of Disparity in 19th Century Canada

Thursday, May 25 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 1087

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Zorina Khan (Bowdoin University)

Does Copyright Piracy Pay? U. S. International Copyright Laws and the Market for Books, 1790-1920.

Friday, October 27 2006 14:40–16:00, Ramsay Wright, room 141

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Sukkoo Kim (Washington University)

British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India

Wednesday, November 15 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Series: International trade/Economic history, Organizer: Bernardo Blum

Ran Abramitzky (Stanford)

The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz

Thursday, November 16 2006 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 1069

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Alex Field (Santa Clara University)

Procyclical TFP and the Cyclicality of Growth in Output per Hour, 1890-2004

Monday, April 9 2007 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Series: Economic history/Macroeconomics, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Susan Wolcott (SUNY - Binghamton)

MicroCredit in Colonial India

Wednesday, September 19 2007 15:10–16:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba)

The town with no poverty: guaranteed annual income field experiments in North America

Friday, March 28 2008 16:00–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 1078

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Sandra Grant

Dhanoos Sutthiphisal (McGill University)

Does it Matter Who Has the Right to Patent: First-to-Invent or First-to-File? Lessons from Canada (joint with Shih-tse Lo)

Friday, September 26 2008 10:10–11:30, Sidney Smith, room 3041

Series: Industrial organization/Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine)

Public-Private Partnerships and Efficiency: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways (joint with Latika Chaudary)

Friday, September 25 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Economic history, Organizers: Gillian C. Hamilton and Robert McMillan

Leah Platt Boustan (UCLA)

"Europe's tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration." (joint with Ran Abramitzky and Katherine Eriksson)

Friday, October 16 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Noam Yuchtman (Harvard University)

How Green Was My Valley? Coercive Contract Enforcement in 19th Century Industrial Britain (joint with Suresh Naidu)

Monday, January 18 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Law and economics/Economic history, Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton

Richard H. Steckel (Ohio State University)

The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (joint with et al)

Friday, October 1 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Economic history, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Gillian C. Hamilton

Stefania Albanesi (Columbia)

Maternal health and fertility

Thursday, March 10 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Macroeconomics/Economic history, Organizers: Michelle Alexopoulos and Gillian C. Hamilton

Richard Hornbeck (Harvard University)

Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater Access" (joint with Pinar Keskin)

Friday, April 1 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Economic history, Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Gillian C. Hamilton

M. Scott Taylor (University of Calgary)

Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies (joint with Juan Moreno Cruz (Georgia Institute of Technology))

Wednesday, December 5 2012 16:30–18:00, Rotman, room 147

Series: International trade/Economic history, Organizers: Gillian C. Hamilton and Peter Morrow

Marco Tabellini (MIT)

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

Tuesday, January 16 2018 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Victor Aguirregabiria

Victor Gay (The University of Chicago)

The Legacy of the Missing Men: The Long-Run Impact of World War I on Female Labor Force Participation

Friday, January 26 2018 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Economic history, Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Shari Eli

Lingwei Wu (Hong Kong University of Science)

The Economic Motives for Foot-binding (joint with Xinyu Fan (UCLA))

Tuesday, January 30 2018 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Economic history, Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Aloysius Siow

Eduardo Jose Montero (Harvard University)

Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador

Tuesday, February 20 2018 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Economic history, Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Arthur Blouin

Sara Lowes (Bocconi University)

The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa (joint with Eduardo Montero)

Friday, February 8 2019 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis

Sebastian Ottinger (UCLA)

Immigrants, Industries and Path Dependence

Friday, January 22 2021 12:10–13:30, Online

Series: International trade/Economic history, Organizers: Gueorgui Kambourov and Serdar Ozkan

Tianyi Wang (University of Copenhagen)

Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin

Monday, January 25 2021 13:10–14:30, Online

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Loren Brandt

Carola Frydman (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)

Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley (joint with Richard B. Baker and Eric Hilt)

Wednesday, April 14 2021 16:10–17:30, Online

Series: Financial economics/Economic history, Organizers: Peter Cziraki and Anton Tsoy

Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)

The Great North American Union Divergence: New Evidence from Survey Data - LOCATION: 1 Devonshire, Campbell Conference Facility

Friday, October 13 2023 17:00–18:15, Munk School at Trinity, room 108N

Series: Economic history, Organizer: Shari Eli

Victor Gay (University of Toulouse)

Weapons of Mass Production. World War I and the Modernization of the French Economy

Friday, January 26 2024 15:00–16:30, Munk School at Trinity, room 208N

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Economic history, Organizer: Shari Eli

Allison Shertzer (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

The Long-Run Impacts of Zoning the Suburbs

Tuesday, March 5 2024 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Series: Urban and real estate economics/Economic history, Organizers: Shari Eli, Aradhya Sood, and Yue Yu