​QUCEH Seminar Schedule: 2024-2025
Seminars take place Friday 1PM-2.30PM fortnightly, in the QBS Conference Hub Seminar Room (01.012).

Semester 1

Week 1: 20 September 2024
Joost Jonker (University of Amsterdam)
The evolution of early modern financial systems: A comparative functional analysis of the Low Countries, 1500-1800
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Week 3: 4 October 2024
Peter Koudijs (New York University Stern School of Business)
​Collateral damage: The financial economics of slavery​

Week 5: 18 October 2024
Karine van der Beek (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Land Reform and Access to Credit: The Response of Bankruptcies to Land Enclosures in England, 1750-1830 ​

Week 7: 1 November 2024
Niamh Brennan (University College Dublin)
A Royal Principal-Agent Relationship: Insights from a Chartered Company
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Week 10: 22 November 2024
John Tang (Utrecht University)
Superstition, fertility, and modernization: evidence from Japan
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Week 11: 29 November 2024
Gabriele Cappelli (University of Siena)
Shaping growth: different types of human capital and European regional incomes (1870-1950)​

Semester 2

Week 15: 17 January 2025
Muhan Hu (University of Strathclyde)

Week 17: 31 January 2025
Marc Deloof (University of Antwerp)

Week 19: 14 February 2025
Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics)

Week 21: 28 February 2025
Christian Maruthiah (Trinity College Dublin)

Week 23: 14 March 2025
Regina Grafe (University of Cambridge)

​Week 25: 28 March 2025
Melanie Xu (London School of Economics)
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