Thursday 28 July
09.15 - 10.30:
Gunnar Persson
Lecture 4: Yes, there is no
such thing as a free lunch: Non-rival goods and
European growth since 1870.
10.30 - 11.00:
Coffee and tea
11.00 - 12.00:
Stephen Broadberry
and Bishnupriya Gupta
“India and the Great Divergence:
An Anglo-Indian Comparison of
GDP per capita, 1600-1871”
Friday 29 July
09.15 - 10.30:
Gunnar Persson
Lecture 5: What banks do to economic
growth and fluctuations.
10.30 - 11.00:
Coffee and tea
11.00 - 12.30:
Kevin O’Rourke (title tbc)
12.30 - 14.00:
Lunch
14.00 - 15.00:
Student presentations:
The Role of Finance:
12.00 - 13.00:
Tirthankar Roy
“Empire, Law and Development”
Eoin McLaughlin: 'Philanthropy, Fraud and Failure:
13.00 - 14.30:
Lunch
Stephanie Collet: With or without the Rothschild?
14.30 - 16.00:
Student presentations:
Trade and Institutions:
Avni Hanedar: The Determinates of Bilateral Trade,
International Politics and Institutions: Evidence
from Late Ottoman Empire.
Jagjeet Lally: The Persistence of the Indo-Central
Irish Microfinance in the Great Famine'
Sovereign Bonds during the Netherlands-Belgium
Break-up.
15.00 - 15.30:
Coffee and tea
15.30 - 16.30:
Student Presentations:
Gains from Trade:
Asian Trade, 1600-1900 or Indian Indigo in Central
Asia: Interactions between the Global and the
Local.
Marie Gaarden Gaardmark: Gains from Trade?
Felix Mihram: Another Piece in the Great
change, international trade and economic growth:
a comparative analysis of New Zealand and
Uruguay in the 20th Century.
Divergence Puzzle: Empirical evidence on the
asymmetric effect of trade in the late 19th
Century.
16.00 - 16.30:
Coffee and tea
16.30 - 17.30:
Informal discussion with faculty.
Time Series Analysis for the U.S.
Jorge Alvarez Scaniello: Institutions, structural
CAGE
Summer School:
Historical
patterns of growth
and development
University of Warwick
25-29 July 2011
Programme
Monday 25 July
09.00 - 9.15:
09.15 - 10.30:
10.30 - 11.00:
11.00 - 12.30:
12.30 - 14.00:
14.00 - 15.30:
Welcome
Gunnar Persson
Lecture 1: Why Europe persisted as
an economic region despite
endemic wars. Insights from the
gravity theory of trade.
Coffee and tea
Debin Ma
Economic Development in China Over the Long Run.
Lunch
Student presentations:
The State and Development:
Matthius Blum: On the Characteristics of a
Successful State: State Efficiency Between
the 1850s and the 1980s. A Data Envelopment
Approach.
Leigh Gardener: What Role do Weak States Play
in Economic Development? Medieval Europe and
Colonial Africa Compared.
Marvin Susse: Political Fragmentation, Trade
Disintegration and Economic Collapse: The Soviet
Case.
15.30 - 16.00:
Coffee and tea
16.00 - 17.00:
Student presentations:
Land and development:
Liang Zhao: Land right transaction, allocation of
resources and family rise and fall ---- case study on
the land transactions of Fan family in 19th century
Taiwan.
Jackeline Velazco: Essays on the changing roles
of agriculture in the economic growth process:
Contrasting theory and evidence, the Peruvian case.
Tuesday 26 July
Wednesday 27 July
09.15 - 10.30:
Gunnar Persson
10.30 - 11.00:
Lecture 2: Is the world concave
or convex? A Smithian
perspective on the last two millennia.
Coffee and tea
11.00 - 12.00:
Nikolaus Wolf
12.00 - 13.00:
13.00 - 14.00:
14.00 - 15.30:
Borders and Nationalism in
Economic Development.
Herman de Jong
Why America? A comparative
analysis of the transatlantic
productivity gap 1900-1950.
Lunch
Student presentations:
German Economic Development:
Paul Galizia: 'German Regional GDP: Preliminary
Land-Level Estimates, 1871-1907.
Theresa Gutberlet: Mechanization and Industry
Agglomeration in the German Empire, 1875 – 1907.
Nikita Bos: British Decline versus German
Supergrowth. A Reassessment of the
Manufacturing Failure Hypothesis.
15.30 - 16.00:
16.00 - 17.30:
Coffee and tea
Student presentations:
Economy and Society:
Nina Boberg- Fazlic: New Findings from the
Cambridge Data on Societal Change in England,
1541-1871.
Paul Sharp: Religious Orders and Growth through
Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England.
Alfonso Minguela: Mating (Marriage) Patterns and
Economic Development.
09.15 - 10.30:
Gunnar Persson
10.30 - 11.00:
Lecture 3: Why Malthusians are
right about everything except the
historical record.
Coffee and tea
11.00 - 12.30:
Nicholas Crafts
12.30 - 14.00:
14.00 - 15.30:
British relative economic decline
revisited: The role of competition.
Lunch
Student presentations: American
Economic Development:
Elizabeth Perlman: 'The Impact of of Railroads
on Education and Skill Returns in the Nineteenth
Century United States'. Changkeun Lee: The Long-term Evolution of U.S.
Manufacturing, 1849-1992.
Pieter Woltjer: The One-man Productivity Race:
America’s unrivaled per capita income growth,
1870-1913.
15.30 - 16.00:
Coffee and tea
16.00 - 17.30: Student presentations:
The State and Well being:
Dacil Juif: On the Human Capital of Inca Indios before and after the Spanish Conquest.
Christina Mumme: The Political Economy of
Civil War Risk: Was there an Impact of Economic
Deprivation, 1816-2004?.
Katharina Muelhoff: Infectious Disease and the
State - The Economics of Smallpox Vaccination in
19th Century Germany.