Seminar
The spring 2022 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 9 February to 4 May 2022 and will take place virtually every Wednesday at 17:00 (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with an extra optional 15 minutes for further discussion.
Registration and recordings of the autumn 2020 sessions
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Spring 2022 Programme
- 9 February 2022: The Journey of Humanity, Oded Galor (Brown University and CEPR)
- 16 February 2022: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action. Evidence from Imperial China, Melanie Meng Xue (LSE) and Boxiao Zhang (UCLA)
- 23 February 2022: Taxation in Africa from Colonial Times to the Present. Evidence from Former French Colonies 1900-2018, Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics), Yannick Dupraz (University College Dublin), Justine Knebelmann (Paris School of Economics) and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps (Paris School of Economics)
- 2 March 2022: The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution, Walker Hanlon (Northwestern University)
- 9 March 2022: The Rise and Fall of Global Currencies Over Two Centuries, Roger Vicquéry (LSE)
- 16 March 2022: Superstar Returns, Moritz Schularick (Bonn University and CEPR), Francisco Amaral (Bonn University), Martin Dohmen (Bonn University) and Sebastian Kohl (MPIfG Cologne)
- 23 March 2022: Trade, Financial Development, and Inequality: Evidence from US Railroads in the 19th Century, Dheeraj Chaudhary (University of Maryland)
- 30 March 2022: The Rise of Fiscal Capacity, Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and CEPR), Cathrin Mohr (Bonn University) and Matthias Weigand (Harvard)
- 6 April 2022: Bourbon Reforms, State Capacity in the Spanish Empire, Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia and CEPR), Luis Roberto Martinez (University of Chicago), Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes), Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo) and Juan David Torres (Stanford University)
- 13 April 2022: Riding the Bubble or Taken for a Ride? Investors in the British Bicycle Mania, Will Quinn (Queen’s University Belfast) and John Turner (Queen’s University Belfast)
- 20 April 2022: Easter break
- 27 April 2022: The Colonial Origins of Banking Crises in Africa, Lisa D. Cook (Michigan State University), Linguère Mously Mbaye (African Development Bank), Janet Gerson (University of Michigan) and Anthony Simpasa (African Development Bank)
- 4 May 2022: The Economic Consequences of the Opium War, Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado and CEPR) and Carol Shiue (University of Colorado and CEPR)