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QUCEH Seminar Schedule: 2016-2017


Date: 14 October 2016, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Karol Borowiecki (Southern Denmark)
Title: 'The Origins of Creativity: The Case of the Arts in the United States since 1850'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 28 October 2016, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Liam Kennedy (QUB)
Title: 'Whatever Happened to Limbo? A social and demographic analysis​' (with introduction by Prof. Sean Connolly)
Room: BDO Library

Date: 4 November 2016, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: William Quinn (QUB)
Title: 'Riding the Bubble or Taken for a Ride? Investors in the British Bicycle Mania'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 11 November 2016, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Peter Conti-Brown (Wharton, Pennsylvania)
Title: 'Central Bank Independence, Revisited: The Many Meanings of the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951'
Room: BDO Library 

Date: 25 November 2016, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: John Gent (LSE)
Title: 'Different 'golden dreams': Bank business models in the early industrial revolution, 1780-1832'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 9 December 2016, 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Mike Adams (Bath)
Title: 'Adverse or propitious selection? Health insurance & alcohol consumption in early twentieth century Sweden'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 16 December 2016, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Dan Bogart (UC Irvine)
Title: 'Railways and employment: evidence from 19th century England and Wales'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 3 February 2017, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Gabriel Geisler Mesevage (Grad. Institute Geneva/Oxford)
Title: 'Logrolling for Private Interest: British MPs during the Railway Mania of 1845'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 17 February 2017, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
Title: 'The Quality of English Patents, 1700-1850: Some new Estimates using Multiple Indicators'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 10 March 2017, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Nikita Lychakov (QUB)​
Title: 'Government-made bank distress: industrialization policies and the 1899-1902 Russian financial crisis'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 24 March 2017, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Bernard Harris (Strathclyde)
Title: 'Social policy by other means?  Mutual aid and the origins of the modern welfare state in Britain during the 19th and 20th centuries'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 31 March 2017,  12:00-13:30
Speaker: Peter Koudijs (Stanford)
Title: 'For Richer, For Poorer: Banker's Skin-in-the-game and Risk Taking in New England, 1867-1880'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 7 April 2017, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Stuart Henderson (QUB)​
Title: 'Market entry, social outreach and early performance in rural banking in the Netherlands at the turn of the twentieth century'
Room: BDO Library

Date: 5 May 2017, 13:30-15:00
Speaker: Guido Alfani (Bocconi)
Title: 'Economic inequality in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800'
Room: BDO Library
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