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VI Banco de España Seminar in Economic History

8 October 2020
Banco de España, Madrid

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The Banco de España cordially invites you to attend the VI Seminar in Economic History, which will be held next October 8th 2020.

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.

The registration will be open in September.

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Presentations

8 October 2020
 
09.00 - 09.45
Keynote speech

Welcome address and chair: Oscar Arce (Director General for Economics, Statistics and Research, Banco de España)

Nathan Sussman (Graduate Institute of Geneva).

09.45 - 10.55
FIRST SESSION

Chair: Pablo Martín-Aceña (Universidad de Alcalá)

The value of a quote. Stock market listing for sovereign bonds, 1872-1911
Pedro Rui Esteves (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) | Marc Flandreau (University of Pennsylvania)

Discussant: Juan Flores (Université de Genève)

The war next door or the Reds are coming: the Spanish civil war and the Portuguese stock market
Diogo Leitão | João Pereira | José Tavares (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) | Jaime Marques Pereira (Bocconi University)

Discussant: Elena Martínez (Universidad de Alcalá)

10.55 - 11.10
Break
11.10 - 12.20
SECOND SESSION

Chair: Galo Nuño (Banco de España)

International banks: re-agents of globalization?
Wilfried Kisling (University of Oxford) | Christopher M. Meissner (University of California, Davis and NBER) | Chenzi Xu (Dartmouth College)

Discussant: María Ángeles Pons (Universidad de Valencia)

Discrimination, managers, and firm performance: evidence from ”aryanizations” in nazi Germany
Kilian Huber (Chicago Booth) | Volker Lindenthal | Fabian Waldinger (University of Munich)

Discussant: Laura Hospido (Banco de España)

12.20 - 12.30
Break
12.30 - 13.40
THIRD SESSION

Chair: Eva Ortega (Banco de España)

Historical wage Phillips curves
Ricardo Duque (Bonn Graduate School of Economics)

Discussant: Mario Izquierdo (Banco de España)

Paving the way to modern growth? Evidence from Bourbon roads in Spain
Miquel-Ángel García-López (Autonomous University of Barcelona & Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) | Alfonso Herranz-Loncan (University of Barcelona) | Filippo Tassinari | Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal (Autonomous University of Barcelona & Institut d’Economia de Barcelona)

Discussant: Marta Santamaría (University of Warwick)

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