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Queen's University Centre for Economic History Inaugural Workshop

One-day workshop, 28 June 2012

Welcome (09:15-09:30) 
  • John Turner (QUB) 

Session 1 (09:30-11:00) 
Chair: Graeme Acheson (University of Ulster) 
  • Leslie Hannah (LSE), 'Counting Corporations: Numbers and Capital in the US and the UK 1776-1914' 
  • Christopher Coyle (QUB), 'Law, Politics and Financial Development: The Great Reversal of the UK Corporate Debt Market' 

11:00-11:30 Coffee

Session 2 (11:30-13:00) 
Chair: Graham Brownlow (QUB) 
  • Stephan Werner (LSE), 'The Development of German Reinsurance Companies during the 1920s'
  • Stefano Battilossi (Carlos III Madrid), 'Pricing Red Scare. Investors and Political Shocks at the Onset of the Spanish Civil War, 1930-36' 

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Session 3 (14:00-16:30) 
Chair: Gareth Campbell (QUB) 
  • Janette Rutterford (Open University), 'A Preliminary Study of Investor Portfolios, 1870 to 1902'
  • Natacha Postel-Vinay (LSE), 'What Caused Chicago Bank Failures in the Great Depression? A Look at the 1920s' 
15:30-15:45 Coffee
  • Chris Colvin (EUI and QUB), 'The Determinants of Bank Failure: Evidence from the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s' 
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