Research Seminar
Economic History, Growth & Development
Welcome to our research seminar! The following senior researchers are involved in the seminar:
Prof. Börner, Prof. Fertig, Prof. Grieben, Prof. Kopsidis
The seminar takes place Thursday in person (if not indicated otherwise) at 18:00 in room SRI in the department's main building (Große Steinstraße 73). In case of questions, please contact Dr. Hakon Albers (hakon.albers@wiwi.uni-halle.de).
We are happy to have the following presenters this term:
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 17. October 2024 |
Jordi Caum Julio, PhD (University of Manchester & Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development) |
Famines and labour returns in colonial India |
| 07. November 2024 | ||
| 21. November 2024 |
New Estimates of Daily Wages in Switzerland, 1750 - 1850 | |
| 5. December 2024 |
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| 12. December 2024 |
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| 9. January 2025 |
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| 23. January 2025 |
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In the summer term 2024, we had the following presenters:
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 24. April 2024 |
Prof. Sébastien Pouget, PhD (University of Toulouse, Toulouse School of Economics) |
The Development of Corporate Governance: Toulouse Companies from the Middle Ages onward |
| 08. May 2024 |
„So many insights ...”: New archaeological and big data strategies for long-term economic studies of the past 12,000 years | |
| 22. May 2024 |
Designing Heaven's Will: The job assignment in the Chinese imperial civil service | |
| 05. June 2024 | ||
| THURSDAY 13. June 2024, 12:15 Lecture hall/Hörsaal XXIII, AUDIMAX building |
Narratives from European-African encounters | |
| 3. July 2024 |
Swiss money, Portuguese ships and enslaved people from Angola: the Purry, Mellish Devisme company |
In the winter term 2023/24, we had the following presenters:
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Nov. 2023 | ||
| 15. Nov. 2023 |
Ass. Prof. Domenico Rossignoli, PhD (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) |
The Cross and the Sword. Religious Identity, Land Ownership, and Conflict: Evidence from Six Centuries of English History |
| 29. Nov. 2023 |
Currency Wars and Monetary Regime Disintegration | |
| 13. Dec. 2023 | ||
| 17. Jan. 2024 |
Ass. Prof. Felix Schaff, PhD (European University Institute Florence) |
Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy |
| 31. Jan. 2024, CHANGE TO ROOM 201 |
Prof. Martin Ivanov, PhD (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and Center for Advanced Study CAS Sofia ) |
Did Living Standards Actually Improve Under State Socialism? Evidence From Bulgaria 1924-1989 |
In the summer term 2023, we had the following presenters:
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19. April 2023 |
Stefan Nikolić, PhD (Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University) |
Spatial inequality in prices and wages: Town-level evidence from the First Globalisation |
| 17. May 2023 |
Prof. Mario A. Maggioni, PhD (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) |
The Elusive Quest: what I learned (and what I published) about experiments dealing with development and growth |
| THURSDAY 1. June 2023, 16:15 |
Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution | |
| 14. June 2023 |
Equilibrium Real Interest Rates and Monetary Policy (Mis)perceptions | |
| 28. June 2023 |
Prof. Jordi Domenech, PhD (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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Land Reform and Rural Voting in Interwar Europe: Evidence from Spain before Civil War |
| 12. July 2023 |
Dr. Chris Colvin (Senior Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast) |
Mind Your Language: The Decline of the Irish Language in the Nineteenth Century |
In the winter term 2022/23, we had the following presenters:
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19. October 2022 |
Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization? | |
| 02. November 2022 |
An economic model of ethnic maps and the endogenous unit area problem | |
| 16. November 2022 |
Dr. Lukas Kornher (ZEF, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn) |
The aid-nutrition link - does targeted development assistance related to food systems matter? |
| 30. November 2022 |
On the Short-Term Economic Costs of the Spanish Influenza in Germany: A Quantification Attempt for the Year 1918 | |
| 14. December 2022 |
The Dynamic Consequences of State-Building: Evidence from the French Revolution |
In the summer term 2022, we had the following presenters:
In the winter term 2021/22, we had the following presenters (all online due to corona pandemic):
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 04. November 2021 | ||
| 18. November 2021 |
Ass. Prof. José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, PhD (Yale University) | |
| 02. December 2021 |
Ethnic Homogenization and Public Goods: Evidence from Kenya’s Land Reform Program | |
| 16. December 2021 |
Bronze Age Trade, Elite Formation and Civilization | |
| 13. January 2022 |
State power, state capacity and economic growth: Germany in the "long" 19th century | |
| 10. February 2022 |
Valuing Hollywood’s Film Libraries: Technology Shocks and Copyright Portfolios in the Motion Picture Industry, 1948 – 2018 |
In the summer term 2021, we had the following presenters (all online due to corona pandemic):
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 22. April 2021 |
Trade and the rise of ancient Greek city-states | |
| 6. May 2021 | ||
| 20. May 2021 |
Dr. Alexander Klein (Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Kent) | |
| 03. June 2021 |
Dr. Florian Ploeckl (Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Adelaide) |
National rules, regional differences? Regional productivity, efficiency, and political preferences in the case of the German Reichspost. |
| 17. June 2021 |
Microstructure of the First Organized Futures Market: The Dojima Security Exchange from 1730 to 1869 | |
| 01. July 2021 |
The Toll of Tariffs: Protectionism, Education and Fertility in Late 19th Century France | |
| 15. July 2021 |
The Diaspora-State: Resolving commercial conflict in the British Atlantic |
In the winter term 2020/21, we had the following presenters (all online due to corona pandemic):
Given the Corona pandemic in the summer term 2020, we had to postpone all scheduled presentations.
In the winter term 2019/20, we had the following presenters visiting us:
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14.11.2019 | Market Design and Long-Run Economic Growth: An Interacted VAR Analysis for Pre-Modern City Data | |
| 28.11.2019 | ||
| 12.12.2019 | Liquidity and stock issues at the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1898–1913 | |
| 09.01.2020 | Finding the right balance: The case of Dutch loan funds, 1850-1920 The paper is joint work with Amaury de Vicq (Utrecht University). | |
| 16.01.2020 | Losing the Gains from Trade. Evidence from the Trade Multiplier of the Great Depression | |
| 30.01.2020 | The Deep Roots of Rebellion: Evidence from the Irish Revolution |
In the summer term 2023, we had the following presenters: