2020
| February 5, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Olga Goldfayn-Frank (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Expectation Formation in a New Environment: Evidence from the German Reunification more... |
| February 6, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Cathrin Mohr (LMU) - Carrots and Sticks: Targeting the Opposition in an Autocratic Regime more... |
| February 18, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Melissa Rubio Ramos (University of Gothenburg) - From Plantations to Prisons: The Legacy of Slavery on Black Incarceration in the US more... |
| April 16, 2020 |
Macrohistory Webinar – Michael Poyker (Columbia University) - Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System. more... |
| April 23, 2020 |
Macrohistory Webinar – Dmitry Kuvshinov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - The Expected Return on Risky Assets: International Long-run Evidence. more... |
| April 30, 2020 |
Macrohistory Webinar – Feicheng Wang (University of Göttingen) - Gender effects of trade liberalization and structural change in China. more... |
| May 07, 2020 |
Macrohistory Webinar – Selim Gulesci (Bocconi University) - Repayment Flexibility and Risk Taking: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh more... |
| May 14, 2020 |
Macrohistory Webinar – Erik Bengtsson (Lund University) - What Happened to the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-level Data, 1909–1950 more... |
| May 28, 2020 |
Macrohistory Webinar – Luis Bauluz and Filip Novokmet (University of Bonn) - The Great Divergence: Wealth Accumulation and Distribution since 1980 more... |
| June 18, 2020 |
Macrohistory Webinar – Casper Worm Hansen (University of Copenhagen) - The 1918 Epidemic and a V-shaped Recession: Evidence from Municipal Income Data |
| June 25, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Alina Bartscher (University of Bonn) - It Takes Two to Borrow: The Effects of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act on Homeownership and Mortgage Debt of Married Couples more... |
| July 02, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Pablo Martinelli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - Tracking Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Home Values, Expectations and House Price Dynamics more... |
| July 09, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Sofie Waltl ( Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research – LISER) - Tracking Owners’ Sentiments: Subjective Home Values, Expectations and House Price Dynamics more... |
| July 16, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Felipe Valencia Caicedo (Vancouver School of Economics) - Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay more... |
| October 29, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Melanie Xue (New York University Abu Dhabi) - Folklore (with Stelios Michalopoulos) more... |
| November 5, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Lara Loewenstein (FED) - The Price-Rent Ratio During the Boom and Bust: Measurement and Implications more... |
| November 12, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Ethan Ilzetki (London School of Economics) - Government Purchases and Plant-Level Productivity: Evidence from World War II more... |
| November 19, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – David Schönholzer (Institute for International Economic Studies) - Creative Destruction in the European State System: 1000-1850 (with Eric Weese) more... |
| November 26, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Johannes Buggle (HEC Lausanne) - The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany more... |
| December 3, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Esther Eiling (University of Amsterdam) - Homeowners' Risk Premia: Evidence from Zip Code Housing Returns”, joint work with Erasmo Giambona, Ricardo Lopez Aliouchkin and Patrick Tuijp more... |
| December 10, 2020 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Kai Gehring (University of Zurich) - The origins of common identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine more... |
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2019
| January 10, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Fabio Mariani (Université Catholique de Louvain) - Structural change and human handedness: how economic development can shape evolutionary forces more... |
| January 24, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics) - Fiscal Policy and Conversions in Early Islam more... |
| April 4, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Ludger Woessmann (Ludwig Maximilian University & IZA Institute of Labor Economics) - Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education more... |
| April 11, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Li Yang (Paris School of Economics) - Robin Hood or Crony Capitalism? Income Inequality Trends in Malaysia (1984-2014) Under Protracted Affirmative Actions more... |
| April 25, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Pawel Bukowski (London School of Economics and Political Science) - Rent Sharing and Inclusive Growth more... |
| May 2, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Matt Lowe (University of Bonn & Briq Institute) - Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration more... |
| May 9, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Lars Lønstrup (University of Southern Denmark) - The Rise and Fall of Family Size: Efficient Human Capital Investment and Fertility more... |
| May 16, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Erik Hornung (University of Cologne) - Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration more... |
| May 23, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Erik Prawitz (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN) - Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration, and the Rise of Innovation more... |
| June 6, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Pamfili Antipa (Sciences Po) - Regimes of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in England during the French Wars (1793-1821) more... |
| June 28, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago) - Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia more... |
| July 11, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Ronan Lyons (Trinity College Dublin) - Forgotten Booms and Busts: New Sale and Rental Price Indices for US Housing, 1890-1990 more... |
| October 10, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Selma Walther (University of Sussex) - Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality more... |
| October 17, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Maëlys de la Rupelle (Université de Cergy-Pontoise) - The Great Famine and Household Saving in China more... |
| October 24, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University of London) - Technology Adoption and Access to Credit via Mobile Phones more... |
| November 7, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Jonathan Goupille-Lebret (ENS Lyon) - Inequality and Redistribution in France, 1900-2018: Evidence from Post-Tax Distributional National Accounts more... |
| November 14, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Anna Bindler (University of Gothenburg) - The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions more... |
| November 21, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Giacomo Gabbuti (University of Oxford) - Inheritances and the concentration of personal wealth in Italy from Unification to the Great War (1862-1915) more... |
| November 28, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Yining Geng (University of Liverpool) - Intergenerational Mobility in China across Space and Time more... |
| December 5, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Cambridge) - Was Domar Right? Serfdom and Factor Endowments in Bohemia more... |
| December 12, 2019 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Andrei Markevich (New Economic School) - Democratic Support for the Bolshevik Revolution: An Empirical Investigation of 1917 Constituent Assembly Elections more... |
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2018
| April 19, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Laura Hering (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Looking for the bright side of the China Syndrome: Rising export opportunities and life satisfaction in China, joint with Matthieu Crozet and Sandra Poncet more... |
| May 17, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Elena Esposito (University of Lausanne) - The Sense of the State more... |
| June 7, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Clara Martinez-Toledano Toledano (Paris School of Economics) - Housing Bubbles and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Spain more... |
| June 14, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Eric Chaney (Oxford University) - Scientific Revolution: Institutions and the Intellectual Rise of the Western World more... |
| June 21, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia) - Tordesillas, Slavery and the Origins of Brazilian Inequality, joint with Thomas Fujiwara and Humberto Laudares more... |
| July 5, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Kaspar Zimmermann (University of Bonn) - The Big Bang, joint with Dmitry Kuvshinov more... |
| July 12, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Anna Baiardi (University of Bonn) - The Persistent Effect of Gender Division of Labour: African American Women After Slavery, Anna Baiardi more... |
| July 12, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Dmitry Kuvshinov (University of Bonn) - The time varying risk puzzle, Dmitry Kuvshinov more... |
| July 19, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Omer Moav (University of Warwick) - The Emergence of Hierarchies and States: Productivity vs. Appropriability, joint with Joram Mayshar, Zvika Neeman, and Luigi Pascali more... |
| October 18, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick) - Community Origins of Industrial Entrepreneurship: Evidence from India more... |
| October 25, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Martin Dohmen (Bonn University) - Entrepreneurial Freedom as a driving Institution during the German Industrial Take-off more... |
| October 31, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Dmitry Kuvshinov (Bonn University) - The Time Varying Risk Puzzle more... |
| November 8, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Matthijs Korevaar (Maastricht University) - Booms and Busts in Housing Markets: Prices and Turnover in Amsterdam, 1582-1810 more... |
| November 15, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Fabian Wahl (University of Hohenheim) - You Reap What You Know: Origins and Dynamics of State Capacity more... |
| November 22, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Pablo Selaya (University of Copenhagen) - “Don’t get mad, get even” more... |
| November 29, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Christoph Koenig (University of Bristol) - Stabs in the Back – Veterans, Propaganda and the Fate of Weimar Democracy more... |
| December 6, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Giorgio Chiovelli (London Business School) - Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethnolinguistic Diversity more... |
| December 20, 2018 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Mintra Dwarkasing (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Household Inequality, Entrepreneurial Dynamism and Corporate Financing more... |
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2017
| January 12, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Alice Kuegler (UCL) - The Responsiveness of Inventing: Evidence from a Patent Fee Reform more... |
| January 18, 2017 |
Special Macrohistory Seminar: Anna Baiardi (University of Warwick) - The Persistent Effect of Gender Division of Labour: African American Women After Slavery more... |
| January 19, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Alessia De Stefani (University of Edinburgh) - Waves of optimism: house price history, biased expectations and credit cycles more... |
| January 26, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Guy Michaels (LSE) - Flooded Cities more... |
| February 2, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University) - News vs. Novelas: Can Entertainment Media Undermine Dictatorships? more... |
| February 9, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University) - Surviving the Killing Fields. The cultural and political heritage of the Khmer Rouge more... |
| May 11, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar - Gisela Rua (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)(University of Warwick) - The Local Impact of Containerization more... |
| May 18, 2017 |
Kolloquium Recht und Ökonomie - Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn) - Conscience or Strategy: Voting in the Bundestag and the Weimar Republic more... |
| 1 June, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – John Turner (Queen’s University Belfast)- News Media and Stock Market Returns over the Long Run more... |
| 22 June, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Maria Waldinger (London School of Economics)- The Economic Effects of Long-Term Climate Change: Evidence from the Little Ice Age more... |
| 29 June, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Joost Jonker (University Utrecht)-Pre-industrial money markets: a functional and comparative approach. more... |
| 06 July, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar - Mintra Dwarkasing (University Rotterdam)-The Dark Side of Social Capital? Battles and Mortgage Lending more... |
| 13 July, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar - Solomos Solomou (University of Cambridge)-Banking Crises and Economic Recoveries: Post-War and Inter-War Evidenceg more... |
| 20 July, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar - Oliver Bush (London School of Economics)-Monetary Versus Macroprudential Policies: Causal Impacts of Interest Rates and Credit Controls in the Era of the UK Radcliffe Report more... |
| 12 October, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar - Bruno Caprettini (University of Zurich)-Rage against the machines. Labor-saving technology and social unrest in England, 1830-32, with Hans-Joachim Voth more... |
| 19 October, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar - Raphael Franck (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)-The Persistent Effect of the Neolithic Revolution on Health and Life Expectancy: A Double-Edged Sword" (with Oded Galor (Brown University) and Omer Ozak (Southern Methodist University)). more... |
| 26 October, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Julia Cagé (Sciences Po Paris)-Sex and the Mission: The Conflicting Effects of Early Christian Investments on sub-Saharan Africa's HIV Epidemic with Valeria Rueda (Oxford University). more... |
| 02 November, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Sara Lowes (Bocconi University)-Mistrust in Medicine: The Legacy of Colonial Medical Campaigns in Central Africa more... |
| 09 November, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics)-Migrants and the Making of America: The Short and Long-Run Effects of Immigration during the Age of Mass Migration more... |
| 16 November, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Imran Rasul (University College London)-Delivery Agents, Social Ties and Group Identity: "Theory and Evidence from a Two-Layered Field Experiment", joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Robin Burgess (LSE), Erika Deserranno (Kellogg Northwestern), Ricardo Morel (BRAC) and Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC & StC) more... |
| 23 November, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark)-"A Land ‘of Milk and Butter’: The Role of Elites for the Economic Development of Denmark" joint with: Peter Sandholt Jensen (University of Southern Denmark), Markus Lampe (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and Christian Volmar Skovsgaard (University of Southern Denmark) more... |
| 30 November, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford)-"Growing, shrinking and long run economic performance: historical perspectives on economic development" with John Wallis (University of Maryland). more... |
| 07 December, 2017 |
Macrohistory Seminar – Erik Hornung (University Cologne)-"Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline" more... |
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2016
| January 14, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Francesco Cinnirella (ifo) - The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Economic Development: Evidence from Post-Malthusian Prussia more... |
| January 21, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Faustine Perrine (Lund University) - Gender equality during the French Development Process more... |
| February 21, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Bernhard Winkler (European Central Bank) - A flow-of-funds perspective on the financial crisis - the role of sectoral leverage and balance sheets more... |
| April 14, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Ulrike Malmendier (University of California, Berkeley) - The Making of Hawks and Doves: Inflation Experiences and Voting on the FOMC more... |
| April 21, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna) - The Legacy of Political History 1000-1800 for Attitudes Towards the State: Disaggregated Analysis for Italy more... |
| April 28, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Andreea Maerean (University of Southern Denmark) - The effects of monetary policy on stock markets: cross-country evidence more... |
| May 12, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Sebastian Siegloch (University of Mannheim) - The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany more... |
| June 1, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Charlotte Bartels (DIW) - Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2011 more... |
| June 3-4, 2016 | 1st European Macrohistory Workshop more... |
| June 9, 2016 | Macrohistory Seminar: Jeremiah Dittmar (London School of Economics) - State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany more... |
| June 16, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar Gregory Clark (University of California, Davis) - For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls: Demography and the Wealth of Nations more... |
| June 23, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Jonathan Goupille-Lebret (Paris School of Economics) - Measuring the Distribution of Wealth: Methods and Estimates for France, 1800-2014 more... |
| June 30, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Ferdinand Rauch (University of Oxford) - Of mice and merchants: trade and growth in the iron age more... |
| July 7, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University) - Credit Rationing and Social Stability: Evidence from 1930s China more... |
| July 14, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Sascha Becker (University of Warwick) - Religion, Division of Labor and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in German Regions over 600 Years more... |
| October 20, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Mara Squicciarini (Northwestern University) - Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th Century France more... |
| October 27, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Carl-Johan Dalgaard (University of Copenhagen) - The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development more... |
| November 3, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Marta Reynal-Querol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Ethnic Diversity and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence more... |
| November 10, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Ola Olsson (University of Gothenburg) - Roman Roads to Prosperity? The Long-Run Impact of Infrastructure on Economic Activity more... |
| November 17, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Jeanet Bentzen (University of Copenhagen) - Acts of God? Religiosity and Natural Disasters Across Subnational World Districts more... |
| November 24, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Melanie Xue (University of California) - Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China more... |
| December 1, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Benjamin Elsner (Institute of Labor Economics) - Immigration, Voting, and Redistribution: Evidence from Post-war Population Transfers more... |
| December 8, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Philipp Ager (University of Southern Denmark) - The Kindergarten Movement and the US Demographic Transition more... |
| December 15, 2016 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Fabian Waldinger (University of Warwick) - Frontier Knowledge and the Creation of Ideas: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science in the Wake of World War I more... |
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2015
| October 22, 2015 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Luigi Pascali (University of Warwick) - The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development more... |
| October 29, 2015 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Kirill Shaknov (European University Institute) - The Allocation of Talent: Finance vs. Entrepreneurship more... |
| November 5, 2015 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Natacha Postel-Vinay (University of Warwick) - What caused Chicago Bank Failures in the Great Depression? A Look at the 1920s. more... |
| November 12, 2015 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Olivier Accominotti (London School of Economics) - Global Banking and the International Transmission of the 1931 Financial Crisis more... |
| November 19, 2015 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Chris Meissner (University of California, Davis) - Fiscal and Financial Crises more... |
| December 3, 2015 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Silvia Miranda Aggripino (Bank of England) - Unsurprising Shocks: Measuring Responses to Monetary Announcements using High-Frequency Data more... |
| December 10, 2015 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Carlos Alvarez Nogal (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - Fiscal problems, Financial Crisis and Credit Markets in Castile under Philip II more... |
| December 17, 2015 |
Macrohistory Seminar: Mohammed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics) - The Cotton Boom and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt more... |