Joint CEPR and Ninth Banco de España Economic History Seminar

Speakers

29 September

• • 08:30h - 09:45h
  • Welcome address: Carlos Thomas Borao (Associate Director General Economics and Research, Banco de España)
• • 09:45h - 11:15h
  • International Finance

    Chair: Jacopo Timini (Banco de España)

    Missing Markets: Market Microstructure and Market Failure on the 19th Century London Stock Exchange

    Rui Esteves and Gabriel Mesevage  (3 MB) (King’s College London)

    Discussant: María Rodríguez Moreno  (677 KB) (Banco de España)

    Golden Fetters or Credit Boom gone bust? A reassessment of Capital Flows in the Interwar Period

    Lukas Diebold  (1 MB) (University of Manheim)

    Discussant: Rui Esteves  (453 KB) (CEPR, Geneva Graduate Institute)

• • 11:15h - 11:45h
  • Coffee break
• • 11:45h - 13:15h
  • Central Banking

    Chair: Eva Ortega (Banco de España)

    Central banks and the absorption of international shocks

    Guillaume Bazot, Eric Monnet, and Matthias Morys  (495 KB) (University of York)

    Discussant: Irma Alonso  (655 KB) (Banco de España)

    Central bank retail deposits and bank runs: evidence from city-level panel data in Spain, 1922-1934

    Enrique Jorge Sotelo  (1 MB) (University of Barcelona)

    Discussant: Mª Ángeles Pons  (343 KB) (Universidad de Valencia)

• • 13:15h - 14:30h
  • Lunch break
• • 14:30h - 16:00h
  • International Migrations

    Chair: Stephen Broadberry (CEPR, University of Oxford)

    From Global to Local: Trade Shocks and Regional Growth in Italy during the First Globalization

    Matteo Gomellini  (839 KB) (Banca d’Italia), Anna Missiaia and Dario Pellegrino

    Discussant: Pablo Martinelli  (276 KB) (Universidad Carlos III)

    Gambling for America: The First Wave of Migration to the Americas,1492-1540

    Leticia Arroyo Abad  (2 MB) (CEPR, City University of New York), José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Yannay Spitzer and Ariell Zimran

    Discussant: João Pereira dos Santos   (93 KB)(ISEG)

• • 16:00h - 16:30h
  • Coffee break
• • 16:30h - 18:00h
  • Long run development

    Chair: Rui Esteves (CEPR, Geneva Graduate Institute)

    American treasure and the decline of Spain

    Carlos J. Charotti, Nuno Palma, João Pereira dos Santos  (3 MB) (ISEG)

    Discussant: Rodolfo Campos  (532 KB) (Banco de España)

    Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Mongol Empire and the Great Divergence

    Rafael Torres-Gaviria  (4 MB) (Universidad de Los Andes)

    Discussant: Stephen Broadberry  (796 KB) (CEPR, University of Oxford)

• • 18:00h - 18:00h
  • Farewell conclusions by the members of the Scientific Committee