Coordinator: Michael Bordo
- The seminar meets on Mondays from 2:30-4:00 in New Jersey Hall Room 101, unless
specified otherwise. *Note new time - All members of the University Community, especially graduate students, are welcome.
See all Money, History, and Finance Workshops in the calendar
Spring 2012
Feb 4
Lee Alston, University of Colorado
"Beliefs, Leadership and Economic Development; Making the Critical Transition, Brazil 1964-2012"
Feb 11
Allison Shertzer, Pittsburgh University
"Immigrant Group Size and Political Mobilization: Evidence from the European Migration"
Feb 25
John Duca, Dallas Federal Reserve
"The Money Market Meltdown of the Great Depression"
March 11
Melanie Khamis, Wesleyan University
"Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes"
March 25
Robert Aliber, University of Chicago (Joint with Macroeconomics)
"#8FLOATING—THE CASE FOR FLOATING CURRENCIES ONCE AGAIN"
"THE STYLIZED FACTS ABOUT THE MONETARY HISTORY OF THE LAST FORTY YEARS"
April 1 (Joint with Macroeconomics)
Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University
"Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record"
April 8
Alan Dye, Barnard College
"The Political Economy of Land Privatization in Argentina and Australia, 1810-1850: A Puzzle"
April 22
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
"Economic Effects of Runs on Early ‘Shadow Banks’: Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907"
April 29
Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
"Sprague, the Man Who Wrote the Book on Financial Crises, and the Great Depression"
May 3 *Note day, Friday and time change: 2:00pm
Dave Donaldson MIT (Friday joint with Applied Micro)
"Can Openness to Trade Reduce Income Volatility? Evidence from Colonial India's Famine Era"
Fall 2012
September 24
Kim Oosterlinck, Free University Brussels
"Lending Money to the “Executioners1”: The Case of the 1906 Russian Loan”
September 25, 2:00-3:30 (Note change of time) Joint with Macro Theory
*Note change in Room: 3rd Floor Library
Subir Gokarn, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
“Boom, Crisis and Inflation Persistence: Challenges for Indian Monetary Policy”
October 1
Oyvind Etrheim, Norges Bank
"Resumption in Norway: the thorny road back to silver parity 1807-1842"
Money and banking in Norway 1816-2016
October 8
Petra Moser, Stanford University
"Dead Poet's Property: The Copyright Act of 1814 and the Price of Literature in the Romantic Period"
October 22
Scott Fulford, Boston College
"If financial development matters, then how? National banks in the United States 1870–1900"
October 29 - CANCELLED
John Duca, Dallas Federal Reserve
"The Money Market Meltdown of the Great Depression"
November 5
Rodney Ramcharan, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
"The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis: The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s"
November 12 (Joint with Macroeconomics)
Juan Flores, University of Geneva
"Closing the Loop? Testing for Moral Hazard before the Mexican crisis of 1982"
November 19 - CANCELLED
Steve Haber, Stanford University