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
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
Week 10: 22 November 2024
John Tang (Utrecht University)
Superstition, fertility, and modernization: evidence from Japan
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)
The Original Gangsters: The Big 4 Auditors in Their Early Days
Week 17: 31 January 2025
Marc Deloof (University of Antwerp)
Entrepreneurship in King Leopold’s Congo Free State
Week 18: 7 February 2025
Elissa Iorgulescu (University of Hohenheim)
Commodity Spot-Future Spreads and Inflation Expectations, 1877-2020
Week 21: 28 February 2025
Christian Maruthiah (Trinity College Dublin)
Coercive Assimilation Policy Across Generations: Evidence from American Indian Boarding Schools
Week 22: 7 March 2025
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick (NYU-Abu Dhabi)
Off the Map: Informational Capacity and Local Development in Colonial Ireland
Week 23: 14 March 2025
Regina Grafe (University of Cambridge)
Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Week 25: 28 March 2025
Melanie Meng Xue (London School of Economics)
Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China
Week 15: 17 January 2025
Muhan Hu (University of Strathclyde)
The Original Gangsters: The Big 4 Auditors in Their Early Days
Week 17: 31 January 2025
Marc Deloof (University of Antwerp)
Entrepreneurship in King Leopold’s Congo Free State
Week 18: 7 February 2025
Elissa Iorgulescu (University of Hohenheim)
Commodity Spot-Future Spreads and Inflation Expectations, 1877-2020
Week 21: 28 February 2025
Christian Maruthiah (Trinity College Dublin)
Coercive Assimilation Policy Across Generations: Evidence from American Indian Boarding Schools
Week 22: 7 March 2025
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick (NYU-Abu Dhabi)
Off the Map: Informational Capacity and Local Development in Colonial Ireland
Week 23: 14 March 2025
Regina Grafe (University of Cambridge)
Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Week 25: 28 March 2025
Melanie Meng Xue (London School of Economics)
Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China