| Friday, 5 October 2001 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Chiaki Moriguchi (Northwestern University) | |
| Canceled and to be rescheduled. | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Loren Brandt |
| Friday, 15 March 2002 | 0:00– 5:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University) | |
| Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837 | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 21 March 2002 | 3:30– 5:00 |
| Economic history/Macroeconomics | |
| Greg Clark (UC-Davis) | |
| The Meaning and Significance of the Industrial Revolution. | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 4 October 2002 | 2:00– 3:30 |
| Economic history/Macroeconomics | |
| Gregor Smith (Queen's University) | |
| Transfer Problem Dynamics: Macroeconomics of the Franco-Prussian War Indemnity | |
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(joint with Michael B. Devereux)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 5 December 2002 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Michelle Alexopoulos (Harvard) | |
| Centralized Wage Bargaining and Structural Change in Sweden | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 24 January 2003 | 14:40–16:00 |
| Economic history | |
| Mauricio Drelichman (Northwestern) | |
| The Curse of Moctezuma: American Silver and the Dutch Disease, 1501-1650 | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 7 March 2003 | 14:30–16:00 |
| Economic history | |
| Ann Carlos (University of Colorado - Boulder) | |
| Purchasing Strategies: Royal African Company Trade, 1672-1699 | |
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(joint with Yongmin Chen and Ron Smith)
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| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 21 March 2003 | 2:00– 4:00 |
| Economic history/Macroeconomics | |
| Brad DeLong (Berkeley) | |
| SEMINAR IS CANCELLED | |
| Munk Centre, room 108N | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 11 April 2003 | 14:30–16:00 |
| Economic history | |
| John Munro (University of Toronto) | |
| SEMINAR MOVED TO NEXT THURSDAY | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 17 April 2003 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Economic history | |
| John Munro (University of Toronto) | |
| The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Financial Revolution: Overcoming Impediments from Church and State | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 25 April 2003 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Larry Neal (University of Illinois-Urbana) | |
| CANCELLED | |
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(joint with Lance Davis, Eugene White)
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| Woodsworth, room 120 | Organizer: Loren Brandt |
| Wednesday, 24 September 2003 | 4:10– 5:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University) | |
| Constitutions and Commitment: Evidence on the Relationship between Institutions and the Cost of Capital | |
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(joint with Yishay Yusef)
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| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Loren Brandt |
| Friday, 31 October 2003 | 14:30–16:00 |
| Economic history | |
| Chiaki Moriguchi (Dept of Economics) | |
| Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach Their Implicit Contracts | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Loren Brandt |
| Friday, 12 March 2004 | 12:10– 1:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Larry Neal (University of Illinois) | |
| The Development of the Rules and Regulations of the London Stock Exchange, 1801-1914. | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Loren Brandt |
| Friday, 22 October 2004 | 14:40–16:00 |
| Economic history | |
| Joseph P Ferrie (Northwestern University) | |
| The Rich and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the U.S., 1850-1860 | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 4 November 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Joachim Voth (NYU-Stern) | |
| The Speed of the Financial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 25 November 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Michael Huberman (NYU-Stern) | |
| Small was Beautiful: Belgian Workers and Free Trade Before 1914 | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 25 November 2004 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Michael Huberman (University of Montreal) | |
| Small was Beautiful: Belgian Workers and Free Trade before 1914 | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 4 February 2005 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Bruce Campbell (Queen's University of Belfast) | |
| England c.1290 - a view from the periphery | |
| Coach House Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 11 March 2005 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Maristella Botticini (Boston University) | |
| From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History | |
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(joint with Zvi Eckstein (there is a 2nd empirical paper on this topic: see hyperlink))
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| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 24 March 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Ken Moure (UCSB) | |
| Curing the Thermometer: The Contrôle Économique and the Battle with French Prices, 1940-48 | |
| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Donald E. Moggridge |
| Friday, 1 April 2005 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA) | |
| Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994 | |
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(joint with Thomas Piketty, Gilles Postal-Vinay)
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| Front Conference Room | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 7 October 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Stan Engerman (University of Rochester) | |
| Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-run Paths of Development | |
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(joint with Ken Sokoloff)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 10 November 2005 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Karl Gunnar Persson (University of Copenhagen) | |
| Feeding the British: Convergence and Market Efficiency in 19th century Grain Trade | |
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(joint with Mette Ejrnaes and Soren Rich)
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| Sidney Smith, room 2131 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 31 March 2006 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Louis Cain (Loyola University and Northwestern) | |
| EPIDEMICS, DEMONSTRATION EFFECTS, AND MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT IN SANITATION CAPITAL | |
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(joint with Elyce Rotella)
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| Sidney Smith, room 1087 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 7 April 2006 | 13:10–14:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Ken Sokoloff (UCLA) | |
| Inequality and the Evolution of Institutions of Taxation: Evidence from the Economic History of the Americas | |
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(joint with Eric Zolt)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 21 April 2006 | 14:10–15:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Bill Collins (Vanderbilt University) | |
| The Demographic Effects of Household Electrification in the United States, 1925-60 | |
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(joint with Martha Bailey)
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| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 25 May 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Marilyn Gerriets (University of St. Francis-Xavier) | |
| Agriculture, Space and Scale: The Origins of Disparity in 19th Century Canada | |
| Sidney Smith, room 1087 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 27 October 2006 | 14:40–16:00 |
| Economic history | |
| Zorina Khan (Bowdoin University) | |
| Does Copyright Piracy Pay? U. S. International Copyright Laws and the Market for Books, 1790-1920. | |
| Ramsay Wright, room 141 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Wednesday, 15 November 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| International trade/Economic history | |
| Sukkoo Kim (Washington University) | |
| British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Bernardo Blum |
| Thursday, 16 November 2006 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Ran Abramitzky (Stanford) | |
| The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz | |
| Sidney Smith, room 1069 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Monday, 9 April 2007 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history/Macroeconomics | |
| Alex Field (Santa Clara University) | |
| Procyclical TFP and the Cyclicality of Growth in Output per Hour, 1890-2004 | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Wednesday, 19 September 2007 | 15:10–16:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Susan Wolcott (SUNY - Binghamton) | |
| MicroCredit in Colonial India | |
| Sidney Smith, room 5017A | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 28 March 2008 | 16:00–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba) | |
| The town with no poverty: guaranteed annual income field experiments in North America | |
| Sidney Smith, room 1078 | Organizer: Sandra Grant |
| Friday, 26 September 2008 | 10:10–11:30 |
| Industrial organization/Economic history | |
| Dhanoos Sutthiphisal (McGill University) | |
| Does it Matter Who Has the Right to Patent: First-to-Invent or First-to-File? Lessons from Canada | |
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(joint with Shih-tse Lo)
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| Sidney Smith, room 3041 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 25 September 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Economic history | |
| Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine) | |
| Public-Private Partnerships and Efficiency: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways | |
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(joint with Latika Chaudary)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gillian C. Hamilton and Robert McMillan |
| Friday, 16 October 2009 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Economic history | |
| Leah Platt Boustan (UCLA) | |
| "Europe's tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration." | |
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(joint with Ran Abramitzky and Katherine Eriksson)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Monday, 18 January 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Law and economics/Economic history | |
| Noam Yuchtman (Harvard University) | |
| How Green Was My Valley? Coercive Contract Enforcement in 19th Century Industrial Britain | |
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(joint with Suresh Naidu)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 1 October 2010 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Economic history | |
| Richard H. Steckel (Ohio State University) | |
| The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century | |
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(joint with et al)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Thursday, 10 March 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Macroeconomics/Economic history | |
| Stefania Albanesi (Columbia) | |
| Maternal health and fertility | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Michelle Alexopoulos and Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Friday, 1 April 2011 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics/Economic history | |
| Richard Hornbeck (Harvard University) | |
| Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater Access" | |
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(joint with Pinar Keskin)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Gillian C. Hamilton |
| Wednesday, 5 December 2012 | 16:30–18:00 |
| International trade/Economic history | |
| M. Scott Taylor (University of Calgary) | |
| Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies | |
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(joint with Juan Moreno Cruz (Georgia Institute of Technology))
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| Rotman, room 147 | Organizers: Gillian C. Hamilton and Peter Morrow |
| Tuesday, 16 January 2018 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Marco Tabellini (MIT) | |
| Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Victor Aguirregabiria |
| Friday, 26 January 2018 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| 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 | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Shari Eli |
| Tuesday, 30 January 2018 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Lingwei Wu (Hong Kong University of Science) | |
| The Economic Motives for Foot-binding | |
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(joint with Xinyu Fan (UCLA))
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Aloysius Siow |
| Tuesday, 20 February 2018 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Eduardo Jose Montero (Harvard University) | |
| Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Arthur Blouin |
| Friday, 8 February 2019 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Sara Lowes (Bocconi University) | |
| The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa | |
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(joint with Eduardo Montero)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Gustavo Bobonis |
| Friday, 22 January 2021 | 12:10–13:30 |
| International trade/Economic history | |
| Sebastian Ottinger (UCLA) | |
| Immigrants, Industries and Path Dependence | |
| Online | Organizers: Gueorgui Kambourov and Serdar Ozkan |
| Monday, 25 January 2021 | 13:10–14:30 |
| Economic history | |
| Tianyi Wang (University of Copenhagen) | |
| Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin | |
| Online | Organizer: Loren Brandt |
| Wednesday, 14 April 2021 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Financial economics/Economic history | |
| Carola Frydman (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) | |
| Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley | |
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(joint with Richard B. Baker and Eric Hilt)
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| Online | Organizers: Peter Cziraki and Anton Tsoy |