Banco de España hosted the II Seminar in Economic History on October 6th.
Research projects on Economic History financed by Bank of Spain together with other four papers on Spanish and international economic history were presented. The seminar also featured a conference by Professor Nicholas Crafts, and a short introduction to the Historical Archive of the Banco de España.
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Information
6 October 2016
Banco de España, Madrid
Speakers
6 October
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- 09:00h - 09:30h
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Seminar introduction
Head of Modelling and Macroeconomic Analysis Division: Juan Francisco Jimeno (Banco de España)
Organizer: Pablo Martín-Aceña (Universidad de Alcalá)
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- 09:30h - 11:00h
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FIRST SESSION
Papers financed by the Economic History Program of the Banco de España: academic year 2014-15
Chairman: Pedro Tedde de LorcaLa teoría cuantitativa del dinero. La demanda de dinero en España: 1883-1998.
(2 MB)
*Yolanda Blasco Martel y *Carme Riera i PruneraDiscussant: Gabriel Pérez Quirós (Banco de España)
Endeudamiento dinástico y crisis financieras en la España de los Austria, 1557-1647: Corpus documental y estudio histórico.
(1 MB)
*Carlos Javier de Carlos Morales (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)Discussant: Carlos Álvarez-Nogal (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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- 11:00h - 11:30h
- Pause: coffee
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- 11:30h - 12:30h
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CONFERENCE
The Great Depression: lessons for policy today
(1 MB)
*Nicholas Crafts (University of Warwick)
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- 12:30h - 13:00h
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HISTORIAL ARCHIVE
A short introduction to the Historial Archive of the Banco de España.
(21 MB)
*Mª Loreto de Inclán Sánchez (Banco de España)
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- 13:00h - 14:00h
- Pause: lunch
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- 14:30h - 16:00h
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SECOND SESSION
Monetary and financial history
Chairman: Juan Francisco Jimeno (Banco de España)Economic crises and the lender of last resort: evidence from 19th Century France.
(626 KB)
*Vincent Bignon (Banque de France)
Clemens Jobst (Osterreichische Nationalbank)
Discussant: James Costain (Banco de España)Central bank balance sheets and optimal government finance. The Bank of England during the French wars.
(837 KB)
*Pamfili Antipa (Banque de France and Paris School of Economics)
Christophe Chamley (Boston University)
Discussant: Galo Nuño (Banco de España)
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- 16:00h - 16:30h
- Pause: coffee
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- 16:30h - 18:00h
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THIRD SESSION
Inequality and welfare in historical perspective
Chairman: Pablo Martín-Aceña (Universidad de Alcalá)Voting for welfare? Comparative performance in Ibero-American democratization.
(645 KB)
*Cristián Ducoing Ruiz (Umea Universitet)
Sara Torregrosa Hetland (Lund University)
Discussant: Esteban A. Nicolini (Universidad Carlos III)Health and welfare in Western Europe, 1900-1950.
*Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (University of Groningen)
Comentarista: Daniel Tirado (Universidad de Valencia)
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- 18:00h - 18:30h
- Closing remarks