Conference

IAST Economic History Mini-Conference: Trade and History

March 20, 2015, 09:00–18:30

Toulouse, France

Room MS 001

IAST Economic History Mini-Conference:

Trade and History

Toulouse, Friday March 20, 2015

Manufacture des Tabacs - S Building - Room MS001

 

Program

 

09:00 - 10:20  Guy Michaels (LSE): "Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012" (joint with Ferdinand Rauch)

10:50 - 12:10  Ferdinand Rauch (Oxford) : "A Dissection of Trading Capital: Culture persistence in the aftermath of the fall of the Iron Curtain" (joint with Matthias Beestermoeller) 

13:40 - 15:00  Walker Hanlon (UCLA): "Temporary Schocks and Persistents Effects in the Urban System: Evidence from British Cities after the U.S. Civil War"

15:20 - 16:40  Dennis Novy (Warwick) : "Asymmetric Trade Costs: Evidence from Sailing and Steamships" (joint with Natalie Chen and Luigi Pascali

17:10 - 18:30  Mohamed Saleh (IAST - TSE): "The Cotton Boom, Slavery, and Land Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Egypt"

 

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This event has been funded by a French government subsidy managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the framework of the investissements d'avenir programme reference ANR-11-LABX-0052.

Reference

IAST Economic History Mini-Conference: Trade and History, Toulouse, France, March 20, 2015, 09:00–18:30, room MS 001.