Cambridge Seminar in Quantitative Economic History

Past Seminars

2000-2003

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2002-2003

Richard Steckel, University of Ohio, LSE (28 November 2002)
Health and Nutrition in the Pre-Industrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe

David Greasley, University of Edinburgh, 14 November 2002
A New Monetary Regime and the End of the Great Depression in New Zealand

Cormac O'Grada, University College Dublin (31 October 2002)
Adam Smith and Amartya Sen: Markets and Famines in Pre-Industrial Europe

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2001-2002

Peter Temin, MIT and Harvard (25 April 2002)
Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire

Jean Laurent Rosenthal, UCLA/and INRA-LEA Paris 2001-2002 (14 March 2002)
The size of the Ante: Inequality, Financial Markets and Growth in Paris 1780-1907

Christopher M. Meissner, King's College, Cambridge (28 February 2002)
Mechanisms of Integrity: Nineteenth Century New England Banks and the Success of Connected Lending

Maristella Botticini, Boston University/University of Brescia 2001-2002 (21 February 2002)
Marriage Markets and Intergenerational Transfers in Comparative Perspective

Gail Triner, Rutgers University (17 January 2002)
Contagion in Brazil and Argentina in the 1890s

2000-2001

Liam Brunt, Nuffield College, Oxford (16 November 2000)
Climate, technology and wheat production in the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850

Oliver Grant, St John's, Oxford (9 November 2000)
The Kuznets Curve in 19th Century Germany

Stephen Broadberry, Warwick University (2 November 2000)
Explaining Comparative Productivity in Services: Technology and Organisation in Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990

N.F.R. Crafts, London School of Economics (19 October 200)
The Solow Productivity Paradox in Historical Perspective

Timothy Leunig, London School of Economics (12 October 2000)
Learning by Doing in the New England Textile Industry

Albrecht Ritschl, University of Zurich (5 October 2000)
Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?

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