Spring All-UC Group in Economic History Conference

Institututions Everywere:

All-UC Group in Economic History Conference in Honor of Founding Member Roger L. Ransom

Conference Program

Conference papers:

"Cities, Institutions, and Growth: The Emergence of Zipf's Law"

Jeremiah Dittmar (UC Berkeley)

"Identifying the Effects of a Lender of Last Resort on Financial Markets: Lessons from the Founding of the Fed"

Marc Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna and NBER), Asaf Bernstein (Harvey Mudd), Eric Hughes (Univ. of Colorado and Claremont McKenna)

"How Green Was My Valley? Labor Market Coercion in Late 19th Century Industrial Britain"

Suresh Naidu (Harvard) and Noam Yuchtman (Harvard)

"Slack and Slacker: Job-Seekers, Job Vacancies, and Matching Functions in the U.S. Labor Market during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Contraction, 1924-1932"

Woong Lee (UC Irvine)

"Ottoman Guilds and the State in 18th Century Istanbul"

Fariba Zarinebaf (UC Riverside)

"Lead, Mortality, and Productivity"

Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon), Werner Troesken (Univ. of Pittsburgh and NBER) and Michael Haines (Colgate University and NBER)

"The Perils of Moving from Personal to Impersonal Exchange in International Finance, 1700-2010"

Larry Neal (University of Illinois, Urbana)

"Warfare, Location of Manufacturing, and Economic Growth in China and Europe"

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech) and R. Bin Wong (UCLA)

"Towards a Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities: Credit Lending, the Federal Budget, and the Politics of Debt Management"

Sarah Quinn (UC Berkeley

"The Performance of Life Insurance Companies: 1860-1905"

Tony Yang (UC Riverside)

"Imagined Economies: Economic Nationalism in the American and Confederate Independence Movements"

John Majewski (UC Santa Barbara)

"Were Notaries in Nineteenth Century Mexico the Original Micro-Financers?"

Juliette Levy (UC Riverside)