8 October 2021
Banco de España, Madrid
The VII Seminar in Economic History took place past October 8th 2021. This year the event was held online.
The annual Seminar in Economic History of the Banco de España aims to bring together scholars from all over the world to discuss current academic work. The programme aims to contribute to the progress of the discipline, providing new insights in several historical periods and areas of investigation.
Chair: Pablo Martin-Aceña (University of Alcalá)
The aftermath of sovereign debt crises: a narrative approach (1 MB)
Rui Esteves | Jason Lennard (London School of Economics) | Sean Kenny
The aftermath of sovereign debt crises: a narrative approach Slides (597 KB)
One hundred years of CIP deviations
Olivier Accominotti (London School of Economics and CEPR) | Jason Cen | David Chambers | Victor Degorce
Chair: Stephen Broadberry (Oxford University)
Revisiting the Cobden-Chevalier network trade and welfare effects (1 MB)
Jacopo Timini (Banco de España)
Revisiting the Cobden-Chevalier network trade and welfare effects Slides (1 MB)
Measuring the carnation revolution: a synthetic control analysis of economic crisis in Portugal (1974-1980) (515 KB)
Luciano Amaral (Nova school of business and economics) | Bruno Lopes Marques | João Pereira dos Santos
Chair: Eva Ortega (Banco de España)
Local institutions and human capital formation in pre-industrial economies: evidence from the former kingdom of Valencia (1 MB)
Alfonso Díez-Minguela (Universitat de València) | Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia | Alicia Gómez-Tello | Julio Martinez-Galarraga | Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat
Local institutions and human capital formation in pre-industrial economies: evidence from the former kingdom of Valencia Slides (820 KB)
Chair: Soledad Núñez (Banco de España)
The economic consequences of the opium war (10 MB)
Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado and CEPR) | Carol H. Shiue
Despotism in Africa: centralized or decentralized? (1 MB)
Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen and CEPR) | Leigh Gardner | Jennifer Kohler | Jack Paine | James A. Robinson
Farewell conclusions