43rd Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
May 30, 2018 – June 2, 2018
Preliminary Conference Program
Updated April 9, 2018. Also available and better viewed on Google Calendar.
Wednesday (May 30, 2018)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Registration (Agora)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Keynote Address (Deirdre Nansen McCloskey):
What We Need to Know in Business and Economic History: The Conditions for Exchange-Tested Betterment
7:00 - 9:00 PM: Opening Reception (Agora)
Sponsored by Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History.
Thursday (May 31, 2018)
8:15 AM – 4:00 PM: Registration (Capitolium)
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Concurrent Sessions
310101 Transaction Costs, Risk, and Maritime Averages
Where: TBA
Chair: Jari Ojala, University of Jyväskylä
Paper 1: Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
Maria Fusaro, University of Exeter
Paper 2: The Last Voyage of the Jan Maria: Business Strategies of Small Shipping Companies in the Age of Steam and Sail
Sabine Go
Paper 3: From Lex Mercatoria to English common law: the case of maritime averages
Adrian Leonard, University of Cambridge
Paper 4: The impact of the Great Debasement on English cloths exports: evidence from Gresham’s Daybook
Ling-Fan Li, National Tsing-Hua University
310102 International Banking
Where: TBA
Chair: Mark Billings
Paper 1: Activities of the Foreign Banks in Japan during the Meiji-Era
Takeshi Nishimura, Kansai University
Paper 2: BOLSA and the euro-dollar markets in the 1960s
Ayumu Sugawara, Tohoku University
Paper 3: The Home Market Effect on Post-acquisition Integration
Qing Lu, Hull University Business School
310103 Training Elites, Leadership, and Human Capital
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Does the training of elites matter for economic growth?: 1800–2010
Elise S. Brezis, Bar-Ilan University
Paper 2: The intellectual life of Camelot: leadership and learnedness during the Kennedy Presidency
Simon Mollan, University of York
Leo McCann, University of Manchester
Paper 3: Irving Fisher’s Radical Materialism: Literal Human Capital Theory in “The Nature of Capital and Income” of 1906
Olli Turunen, University of Jyväskylä
310104S Stock Exchanges at the Times of Imperialism, War, and Public Bankcruptcy
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Gold, Finance and Imperialism: The Johannesburg Stock Exchange, 1887–1901
Mariusz Lukasiewicz, University of Leipzig
Paper 2: The Clock is Ticking for the Ottomans: Approaching Bankruptcy, European Powers, and Local Debtors in the Ottoman Satirical Press, 1870–1876
Gul Karagoz Kizilca, Ankara University
Paper 3: Ottoman stock returns during the Turco-Italian and Balkan Wars of 1910–1914: Political risks and the Ottoman companies
Avni Onder Hanedar, Sakarya University
Elmas Yaldız Hanedar, Sakarya University
Paper 4: The Ghosts of the Stock Market: Lingering around in the East and Spirited Away in the West
Deryuan Yang, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
310105 Medieval Bells, Credit, and Banking
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Credit risk and default rates in medieval London, 1285–1363
Tony Kevin Moore, University of Reading
Miriam Marra, University of Reading
Paper 2: The impact of public banking on municipal public debt in Barcelona in the long sixteenth century (1479–1598)
Jacopo Sartori, University of Cambridge
Paper 3: The Bell Curve: Regional Economic Activity in Central Europe, 12th to 18th centuries
Mark Spoerer, University of Regensburg
Paper 4: Debts and Claims Records in the Czech Lands in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Pavla Slavickova, Palacky University in Olomouc
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Coffee Break
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM: Concurrent Sessions
310201 Re-assessing the Early Modern Growth: Nordic Experiences
Where: TBA
Chair: Samuel H. Williamson, President of MeasuringWorth and Miami University (Emeritus)
Paper 1: Reconstructing Swedish historical national accounts – How far in time can we go?
Rodney Edvinsson, Stockholms Universitet
Paper 2: Historical Danish National Accounts, 1750–1895
Paul Sharp, Southern Denmark
Paper 3: GDP from the production side: methodological and empirical framework
Ola Honningdal Grytten, Norwegian School of Economics
Paper 4: Explaining multiple currency regime in the 1800s Finland. Why Russia failed to eradicate Swedish currency from a conquered region?
Riina Turunen, University of Jyväskylä
Miikka Voutilainen, University of California, Davis (visiting scholar)
Jari Ojala, University of Jyväskylä
Paper 5: Economic Convergence in the Nordic Societies in the Long Run: Europe and Other Comparative Mirrors
Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University
Jari Ojala, University of Jyväskylä
Jaakko Pehkonen, University of Jyväskylä
Lars Christian Bruno, BI Norwegian Business School
310202 Human Capital: School Resources, Highways and POWs
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: School Resources and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century Georgia
Richard B. Baker, The College of New Jersey
Paper 2: Highways, Schooling, and Race in the U.S. South: 1920–1932
Fan Fei, Northwestern College
Paper 3: On the economics of forced labour: Was it POW employment that depressed German coal mining productivity during the First World War?
Tobias A. Jopp, Universität Regensburg
310203 Keep it in the Family (Business) in Theory and Practice
Where: TBA
Chair: Neil Forbes, Coventry University
Paper 1: The invention of tradition: History as a social construction in a business family
Fco. Javier Fernandez-Roca, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla)
Jesús D. López-Manjón, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla)
Paper 2: The evolution of business activities and organisational form in the 18th century: A case study of John Kenyon and Co of Sheffield
Chris Corker, University of York
Paper 3: From Kasos and Syros to London and New York. The business group of the ship-owners of Kasos from the end of the 19th century to the mid–20th. The evolution of the Greek maritime businesses from local to global
Dimitra Chrysoula Kardakaris, Ionian University
310204 Banks and Homeowners in Distress – Britain and Sweden
Where: TBA
Chair: Mitchell J. Larsson, University of Central Lancashire
Paper 1: Can bank characteristics predict bank distress? Evidence from the 1907 crisis in Sweden
Anna Grodecka, Sveriges Riksbank
Seán Kenny, University of Lund
Anders Ögren, University of Lund
Paper 2: Post-crisis governance reforms in British bank boards: recommendations and reality
Sophie Louise Hatton, University of Exeter Business School
Mark Billings, University of Exeter Business School
Paper 3: A housing price index for Stockholm 1840–2015
Rodney Edvinson, Stockholm University
Klas Eriksson, Stockholm University
Gustav Ingman, Stockholm University
310205 Economic Ideas and Ideology
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Beginning and Evolution of the Idea of Opportunity Costs
Sheetal Bharat, Bengaluru Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics
Paper 2: Was the Lighthouse Ever a Public Good?
Vincent Geloso, Texas Tech University
Rosolino Candela, Brown University
Paper 3: Economics & Ideology: A juxtaposition of Financialism and Marxism
Tuomas Henrik Pakarinen, University of Jyväskylä
310206 Maps, Clashes, and Mobility
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Clash and Cash? Revisiting the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Thesis
Erik Benson, Cornerstone University
Paper 2: Beyond the Stock Market – Maps as a „Cultural Dividend“ in 19th century overseas expeditions
Alexander Sievers, University of Mannheim
Paper 3: Future mobilities: a challenge for economic and business historians?
Simone Fari, University of Granada
Massimo Moraglio, Technische Universität Berlin
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Lunch Break
12:45 – 2:15 PM: Concurrent Sessions
310301 Thriving and Failing Nations
Where: TBA
Chair: Juha-Antti Lamberg, University of Jyväskylä
Paper 1: The Origins of Disorder: Why do Nations Fail to Thrive?
Anne EC McCants, MIT
Dan Seligson
Paper 2: The state does not live by warfare alone: State capacity and armed conflict in the long nineteenth century
Augustín Goenaga, Lund University
Oriol Sabaté, Lund University
Jan Teorell, Lund University
Paper 3: China: Some Pre–1978 Origins of the Post–1978 Economic Takeoff
Minquan Liu, Peking University
310302 New Perspectives on Business and the Economy in Japan in the Early Modern-to-Modern Transition
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Closed Countries, Open Countries: Tokugawa and Meiji Japan in Changing Economic Worlds
Steven Bryan, Independent Scholar, Tokyo
Paper 2: Guns and Leather: Nishimura Katsuzōand Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan
Martha Chaiklin, Hosei University
Paper 3: Confucian or Crony Capitalism?: Shibusawa Eiichi and Relationships between the Government and Private Sectorin Meiji Japan
John Sagers, Linfield College
Paper 4: Smithian Rhetoric, Listian Practice: The Matsukata “Retrenchment” and Industrial Policy, 1881–1885
Steven J. Ericson, Dartmouth College
310303 Work in Progress: Developing Professional Competencies in Students
Where: TBA
Chair: Erik Benson, Cornerstone University
Paper 1: Living in the Real World’: Students as Partners in Researching and Writing Economic and Business History
Billy Frank, University of Central Lancashire
Paper 2: Making Economic History Relevant for All Students
Nicola Tynan, Dickinson College
Paper 3: Digital Literacy for Digital Natives
Mitchell Larson, Lancashire School of Business & Enterprise
310304 Trade on the Baltic and the High Seas
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: The Growth of Long Distance International Trade of Finland in 1557–1856 – Re-routings of vessels after some institutional changes and their effects on growth rates
Timo Tiainen, University of Jyväskylä
Paper 2: The impact of global competition on the Russian grain trade in the first half of the nineteenth century
Werner Scheltjens, University of Leipzig
Paper 3: Wreckage Recycled Salvage: Auctions, Shipbuilding and Seafaring in 18th Century Sweden
Juha-Matti Granqvist, University of Helsinki
Paper 4: Municipal finances in times of global wars: Lisbon’s tonnage taxation on vessels during the French invasions
Rodrigo Costa Dominguez, University of Minho, University of Porto
Maria Cristina Moreira, University of Minho
310305 From Gold Standard Stock Market Integration to 1950s Shareholder Feminism
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: International stock market integration during the Gold Standard
Rebecca Stuart, Central Bank of Ireland
Paper 2: Debating Banking in Britain: The Colwyn Committee, 1918
Mark Billings, University of Exeter
Philip Garnett, University of York
Simon Mollan, University of York
Paper 3: The Gadflies: Appraising the Rise of Female Shareholder Activism in Mid Twentieth Century America
Janice Traflet, Bucknell University
Robert E. Wright, Augustana University
2:15 – 2:30 PM: Coffee Break
2:30 – 4:00 PM: Concurrent Sessions
310401 Knowledge and networks as a key factor of industrial growth in the Nordic Countries 1750–1920
Where: TBA
Chair: Kustaa H.J. Vilkuna, University of Jyväskylä
Paper 1: Knowledge-making and urban workshop practices: metal manufacturing in Stockholm during the late eighteenth century
Måns Jansson, Uppsala University
Paper 2: Foreign networks and the Birth of the Cotton Industry in Finland, 1820–1870
Jarmo Peltola, University of Tampere
Paper 3: Networks, knowledge and markets: Finnish cutlery industry during the years 1875 and 1920
Juha Laakkonen, University of Jyväskylä
310402 Natural Resource Use in the Long Run
Where: TBA
Chair: Timo Särkkä, University of Jyväskylä
Paper 1: Using history to anticipate the future: A case study on natural resource use in the long-run
Jan Kunnas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Paper 2: Palm oil industry 1970–2010: Do we see a flying geese pattern emerging?
Lars Christian Bruno, BI Norwegian Business School
Paper 3: The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Oyle Seed for Textiles
Amy Coombs, University of Chicago
310403 Jewish Business in England, Israel, and the USA
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Edmond de Rothschild’s investment in the land of Israel/ Palestine from 1882–1914 and the economic development of the land in the turn of the 20th century: A successful example of an unintended infant industry policy
Andrew Jay Schein, Netanya Academic College
Paper 2: Defining and Defending Valid Citizenship during War: Jewish Immigrant Businesses in World War I England
Stephanie Seketa, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper 3: Early American Jewish Capitalism in the Chesapeake A Business History of the Cohen Brothers of Baltimore
Candace Jackson Gray, Morgan State University Baltimore
310404 Transformations of Economic History
Where: TBA
Chair: Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University
Paper 1: Douglass North and the Cliometrics Movement
Mike Haupert, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Paper 2: Economic History Goes Digital: Topic Modeling the Journal of Economic History
Lino Wehrheim, University of Regensburg
Paper 3: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the role of economic history
Simone Fari, University of Granada
310405 Diverse Effects of Colonialism and Colonization
Where: TBA
Chair: Billy Frank, University of Central Lancashire
Paper 1: Paper money, seigniorage, and the transition to a modern economy: two case studies
Jane E. Knodell, The University of Vermont
Paper 2: The Economics and Economic Thought of Colonial Indian Nationalism
Sheetal Bharat, Bengaluru Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics
Paper 3: ‘Send Me, Sir, if You Please’: Consumer Preferences and Trans-Imperial Trade in Colonial Boston
Jeremy Land, University of Tennesee
4:10 PM – 5:30 PM: Board of Trustees Meeting
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM: Members’ Meeting
7:30 PM: Evening Program (dinner in groups)
Friday (June 1, 2018)
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM: Registration (Capitolium)
9:00 – 10:30 AM: Plenary Session (Uskali Mäki):
Accessing the Past: Challenges of Representation, Evidence, and Interdisciplinarity in Historical Sciences
10:30 – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Concurrent Sessions
010201 Open Economy Forces and the Welfare State (Pre-WEHC panel)
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Smooth Sailing towards a Welfare State? Nordic Institutional and Economic Developments Paths in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University
Jari Ojala, University of Jyväskylä
Oriol Sabaté Domingo, Lund University
Paper 2: Globalization and Welfare State in Spain, 1880–2000
Sergio Espuelas Barroso, UB School of Economics
Paper 3: Open for Welfare? Openness to Trade and Social Spending in the OECD, 1920–1995
Peter Hedberg, Uppsala University
Lars Karlsson, Uppsala University
Henric Häggqvist, Uppsala University
Paper 4: From Famine and Civil War to the Welfare State: Income and Wealth Inequality in Finland, 1865–2016
Petri Roikonen, University of Helsinki
010202 From Later Imperial to Soviet Business and Industry
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia
Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Paper 2: Soviet Crowdsourcing: Social Movement to Develop Aviation in The Soviet Russia in 1920s
Svetlana Ulyanova, Saint-Petersburg State University
Paper 3: Cluster Models in Planned Economy: Territorial-Production Complex in the Soviet Economic Geography
Nooa Nykänen, University of Jyväskylä
010203 German Economic History History from Hanse to the Great Depression
Where: TBA
Chair: Dan Giedeman, Grand Valley State University
Paper 1: What is Hanse? Rethinking a central factor in medieval and early modern economic development
Angela Ling Huang, Research Centre for Hanse and Baltic History (FGHO) at the European Hansemuseum
Paper 2: A Novel Institution - the Zollverein and the Origins of the Customs Union
Florian Ploeckl, University of Adelaide
Paper 3: The Great Depression in Germany - frictions from the credit or the labor market?
Hendrik Steinbrecher, Technische Universität Dortmund
010204 Economic Institutions and Trade in India
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Trust for trade: Emperor Asoka’s Action Across the Contract Spectrum
Sheetal Bharat, Bengaluru Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics
Paper 2: Asset Markets, the Agency Problem and Gifts to the Early Medieval Buddhist Sangha in India
Plachikkat Viswanath, Pace University
Paper 3: The Urban Economy of Sind under the Mughals in the Seventeenth Century
Amita Paliwal, University of Delhi
010205 Industrial Revolutions: Catching Up, Diverging, and Converging
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Divergence, convergence, and the history-augmented Solow model
Vadim Kufenko, University of Hohenheim
Klaus Prettner, University of Hohenheim
Vincent Geloso, Texas Tech University
Paper 2: Testing the Neoclassical Growth Theory for Catch-up Process of the United States: 1820–1913
Onur Yukcu, Dokuz Eylul University
Erdost Torun, Dokuz Eylul University
M. Erdem Ozgur, Dokuz Eylul University
Paper 3: A Pull-Push Theory of Industrial Revolutions
Bernard Beaudreau, Université Laval
12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00 PM: Concurrent Sessions
010301 Economic Inequality
Where: TBA
Chair: Vincent Geloso, Texas Tech University
Paper 1: Measuring wealth inequality in pre-modern South-Western Germany
Michael Buchner, Saarland University
Paper 2: Inverted mortality, informal credits and household wealth in nineteenth-century Sweden. An in-depth study of the Kalmar region
Håkan Lindgren, Stockholm School of Economics
Paper 3: The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution
Theresa Finley, Susquehanna University
Raphaël Franck, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Noel Johnson, George Mason University
010302 The Middle Way in the Third World: Swedish business opportunities in the era of decolonization
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: From idea to ideal: The construction of Swedish Foreign Aid in the early and mid–1960’s
Maria Hoff Rudhult, Uppsala University
Paper 2: ”Markets of the future” Swedish economic diplomacy in Africa and Asia during the 1950s
Nikolas Glover, Uppsala University
Paper 3: “To Profit from the Swedish State?” Coordination and Contradictions between Swedish Business and Aid in Liberia, 1959–1972
Karl Bruno, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
010303 Resources, Empire Building, and Rent Seeking
Where: TBA
Chair: Niklas Jensen-Eriksen, University of Helsinki
Paper 1: French Oil Protectionism and the International Political Economy of Rent Seeking
Julien Brault, SciencesPo
Paper 2: Multinational Enterprise, Profits and Taxation: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in the 1920s
Neil Forbes, Coventry University
Paper 3: The British Paper Trade and Empire: The Quest for Imperial Raw Materials, c. 1850 to c. 1950
Timo Särkkä, University of Jyväskylä
010304 State-Owned Enterprises and East-West Economic Embargoes
Where: TBA
Chair: Nooa Nykänen, University of Jyväskylä
Paper 1: British and German Industry and the 1980s CoCom Embargos against the Eastern Block
Armin Grünbacher, The University of Birmingham
Paper 2: Leviathans facing Globalization: Governance and Internationalization of State-Owned Enterprises
Pasi Nevalainen, University of Jyväskylä
Andrea Colli, Bocconi University
Paper 3: Post-Communist Societies and the Management of Former State-owned Enterprises
Anna Soulsby, University of Nottingham
010305 Industry Studies: Ships, Building and Dairy
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Cold War Shipbuilding in Finnish style
Saara Matala, Aalto University
Paper 2: The rise of the modern industrialized building business: Innovations and organizational issues in the precast concrete industry 1950–1980
Jørgen Burchardt, National Museum of Science and Technology
Paper 3: The dynamics of coopetition in the dairy industry – transformation and change in the Baltic Rim across two decades
Paulina Ines Rytkönen, Södertörn University
Marcus Box, Södertörn University
Mikael Lönnborg, Södertörn University
010306 Managing and Funding Art
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Legacy and innovation in organised arts fundraising: The Contemporary Art Society 1910–1970
Marta Herrero, University of Sheffield
Paper 2: The Paris Opera in 1750 - 1751: An attempt at an annual report
Staffan Albinsson, University of Gothenburg
3:00 – 3:30 PM: Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 PM: Concurrent Sessions
010401 Poor Law Policy and Regulation in Late Victorian England
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Inequality and poor law policy in late-Victorian England
Jonathan Chapman, New York University Abu Dhabi
Paper 2: Cankerous-worms of ruin or the poor man’s banker? An analysis of government social expenditure and pawnbroking activity in Britain from 1872–1914
Walter Jansson, University of Cambridge
Craig McMahon, University of Cambridge
Paper 3: London’s East End: Shellfish, Sewage, and Typhoid
Nicola Tynan, Dickinson College
010402 The ‘Ideal’ Company. Commercial Cooperation and Global Trade in Northern Europe
Where: TBA
Chair: Benjamin Steiner, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main / Munich
Paper 1: Introduction: The Problem of a Normative Theory of Trading Company from a Global Perspective
Benjamin Steiner, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main / Munich
Paper 2: Companies, Partnerships, Corporations, and Firms: What is it that is universal?
Ulla Kypta, Universität Basel
Paper 3: Modes of Trade in Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Southeast Asia
Peter Borschberg, National University of Singapore
Paper 4: From Local to Global: European East India Companies and the Early Modern Vietnamese Integration: An Appraisal
Anh Tuan Hoang, Vietnam National University
010403 Surviving in Finland from Seventeeth to Early Nineteenth Century
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Emerging consumption and material culture in rural areas in early nineteenth century Finland
Merja Uotila, University of Jyväskylä
Maare Paloheimo, University of Greifswald
Paper 2: Resistance and Persuasion in the Context of Castle-Building: New Economic Burdens for Peasantry in Early 17th Century Northern Finland
Maria Julku, University of Oulu
Paper 3: Broken trust: A Blacksmith Herman Kaitlin’s debt litigations in the early nineteenth century rural Finland
Tiina Hemminki, Stockholm School of Economics
Merja Uotila, University of Jyväskylä
010404 Beer and Brewing on both sides of the Atlantic
Where: TBA
Chair: Ranjit Dighe, State University of New York at Oswego
Paper 1: Institutional Explanations for Belgium’s Renowned Beer Diversity
Jason Taylor, Central Michigan University
Eline Poelmans, KU Leuven
Paper 2: Brewers, Merchants, and Bankers: Financing Industrial Brewing in Early Modern Amsterdam
Richard Yntema, Otterbein University
Paper 3: Technology adoption and industrial leadership: How Brewing Moved West in the United States
Carlos Eduardo Hernandez, Universidad de los Andes
Paper 4: Dry Oases: Local Prohibitions of Alcohol in Montgomery County, Maryland
Ranjit Dighe, State University of New York at Oswego
010405 Americana in European Business
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: The merits and limits of the concept of Americanization in the Swedish advertising industry 1915–1945
Elin Åström Rudberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Paper 2: The Arrival of American Management Ideology to Turkey and Wage Debates Between Organized Labor and Capital, 1960–1980
Özgür Balkılıç, Abdullah Gul University
Paper 3: A US Corporation in Northern Europe: IBM World Trade’s multilevel identity in Finland and Sweden
Petri Paju, University of Turku
6:00 PM: Lake Cruise and Conference Banquet with live music (Savutuvan apaja)
Saturday (June 2, 2018):
9:00 – 10:30 AM: Concurrent Sessions
020101 Wealth, Credit, and Banking in Sweden and Finland
Where: TBA
Chair: Kustaa H.J. Vilkuna
Paper 1: Private Capital Accumulation in Scania (Sweden), 1700–1800 Pre-industrial Origins of Growth and Business Mirrored in Farmers´ Debt Logic in Oppmanna
Anders Perlinge, Institute for Economic and Business History Research (EHFF) at Stockholm School of Economics
Paper 2: Women and credit in Finland and Sweden 1790–1850
Tiina Hemminki, Stockholm School of Economics
Sofia Gustafsson, Stockholm School of Economics
Paper 3: Savings banks, savers and the risk of early deposit banking in Sweden
Kristina Lilja, Uppsala University
020102 Nobility as Entrepreneurs and Tax-payers
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: The puzzle of tax compliance in the early nineteenth-century Russia
Elena Korchmina, New York University in Abu Dhabi
Paper 2: Business, Investments and Innovation: New Insights on Nobility in Northern Italy (19th century)
Silvia Antonia Conca Messina, University of Milan
Catia Brilli, University of Milan
Paper 3: Monopsony and Industrial Development in Nineteenth Century Quebec: The Impact of Seigneurial Tenure
Vincent Geloso, Texas Tech University
Vadim Kufenko, University of Hohenheim
Alex Arsenault Morin, Queen’s University
020103 Managing and Funding Art
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Legacy and innovation in organised arts fundraising: The Contemporary Art Society 1910–1970
Marta Herrero, University of Sheffield
Paper 2: The Paris Opera in 1750 - 1751: An attempt at an annual report
Staffan Albinsson, University of Gothenburg
020104 Building American Economy from Antebellum Years to 1930s Recovery
Where: TBA
Chair: Fred B. Gates, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Paper 1: Friends of Industry and the Problem of Interest Group Mobilization in Antebellum United States
Martin Öhman, Gothenburg University
Paper 2: Creative “Disruption”: the Rise of Manufacturing, a Restructured Economy, and American Economic Policy, 1920 - 1933
John Austin Moore, Walsh College
Paper 3: Why So Slow? Another Look at Economic Recovery in the 1930s
Bernard Beaudreau, Université Laval
020105 Technology Diffusion, Management, and Financing
Where: TBA
Chair: TBA
Paper 1: Gatekeepers of New Technology: Patent Management in the Nordic Area at the Turn of the 20th Century
Matti La Mela, Aalto-University David E. Anderson, Linkoping University, Uppsala Centre for Business History
Paper 2: The annual cost of Watt vs. Newcomen engines and the threshold price of coal, 1774–1800: A study on the diffusion of competing technologies
Harilaos Kitsikopoulos, Unbound Prometheus program
Paper 3: ”Taken Up in the Course of an Hour": Share Offering Techniques for the First High Technology in History
John Laurence Busch
10:30 – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Concurrent Sessions
020201 From Moral to Market Economies
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Chair: TBA
Paper 1: The Poor, Merchants and the Government of the Grand Duchy: Harvest Failures and Grain Imports to Finland, 1856 – 1869
Timo Myllyntaus, University of Turku
Paper 2: Single, married, divorced. Family ties as a perspective on maritime human capital in the Baltic Sea Area, 1752–1950
Pirita Frigren, University of Jyväskylä
Jari Ojala, University of Jyväskylä
Paper 3: The Political Economy of “Moral Economies”: A Public Choice Approach
Vincent Geloso, Texas Tech University
020202 Banking in the Twentieth Century
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Chair: TBA
Paper 1: The Court of the Bank of England: an analysis of cohort characteristics and change over time
Chris Corker, University of York Simon Mollan, University of York Philip Garnett, University of York Mark Billings, University of Exeter
Paper 2: A comparative analysis of Regional Banking centres in India (1900–69)
Amol Agrawal, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Paper 3: Credit and Efficiency in Swedish Commercial Banking 1911–1938
Peter Hedberg, Lund University Lars Karlsson, Uppsala University
Henric Häggqvist, Uppsala University
020203 GDP, Economic Geography, and Industrial Production
Where: TBA
Chair: Jason Taylor, Central Michigan University
Paper 1: The Determinants of GDP before the Industrial Revolution
Robert Rogers, Ashland University
Paper 2: Market potentials in the Swedish realm in the early modern times
Ilkka Nummela, University of Jyväskylä
Kerstin Enflo, Lund University
Paper 3: The Industrial Revolution in a Europe Without Borders: A Spatial Analysis of Iron, Coal and Water Transport and the Optimal Location of Early Industry
John R. Lovett, Texas Christian University
020204 The Great Wars
Where: TBA
Chair: Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University
Paper 1: For patriotism and profit – the emergence of public-private cooperation in “war advertising”: The case of Sweden
Erik Lakomaa, Stockholm School of Economics
Paper 2: Economist as Cassandra: Karl Helfferich’s Opposition to Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Gregory R. Zieren, Austin Peay State University
Paper 3: The War Damage Commission: Britain’s Least Sung Heroes of World War II
Martin Cohen
020205 Economic Policies in the Iberian Colonies and Portuguese Economic Diplomacy
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Paper 1: Immigrants and Land Policy in São Paulo State, Brazil (1886–1930)
André Luiz Lanza, University of Sao Paolo
Paper 2: James M. Eder and the Economic Development of Valle del Cauca in Early Colombia
Alvaro Moreno, University of Virginia
Paper 3: ‘Economic diplomacy’ as a foreign policy goal? The case of Portugal
Pedro Sousa, New University of Lisbon