ASSA January 2003
Cliometric Society Sessions

The Cliometric Society will sponsor three sessions at the ASSA meetings in Washington, D.C. January 3-5, 2003. The cocktail party will be held Saturday night, January 4th, from 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. in Mike Haupert's suite at at the Grand Hyatt.

Session 1: Death, Taxes, and Public Spending in Economic History
(Saturday, January 4, 8:00am, Convention Center, Room #9)

Chair: Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona

• Joerg Baten, University of Tuebingen and Andrea Wagner, University of Munich - Autarchy
  Title: Market Disintegration, and Health: The Mortality and Nutritional Crisis in Germany During the Early Years of the Nazi Regime, 1933-1937
  Discussant: John Brown, Clark University
• Werner Troesken, Pittsburgh, and Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern
  Title: Death in the City: Mortality and Access to Public Water and Sewer in Chicago, 1880
  Discussant: Melissa Thomasson, Miami (Ohio) University
  

• John Wallis, Maryland
  Title: Debt, Default, and Revenue Structure: State Government Finances in the 1840s
  Discussant: John James, University of Virginia
  

• Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor, Arizona, and Ryan Johnson, Brigham Young University
  Title: Welfare Programs and Crime in Cities During the Great Depression
  Discussant: T.B.A.
  

Session 2: Money, Banking and the Gold Standard
(Saturday, January 4, 10:15AM, Convention Center, Room #9)

Chair: Joseph Mason, Drexel University

• Paul Auerbach, Kingston University, and Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse
  Title: Bank Response During the American Civil War
  Discussant: Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt
  

• Christopher M. Meissner, Cambridge
  Title: Committee Structure and the Success of Connected Lending in Nineteenth Century New England Banks
  Discussant: Peter Temin, MIT
  

• Mark Carlson, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, and Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University
  Title: The Effects of Branching on Bank Competition and Financial Stability
  Discussant: Joe Mason, Drexel
  

• Michael Bordo and John Landon Lane, Rutgers University, and Angela Redish, University of British Columbia
  Title: Deflation and Depression: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
  Discussant: Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna
  

Session 3: The Nature and Sources of Modern Economic Growth
(Saturday, January 4, 2:30PM, Convention Center, Room #9)

Chair: Lee A. Craig, North Carolina State University

• Timothy Hatton, University of Essex
  Title: Can Productivity Growth Explain the NAIRU? Long-Run Evidence from Britain, 1871-1913
  Discussant: Chris Hanes, Mississippi
  

• Alvaro S. Pereira, University of British Columbia
  Title: When Did Modern Economic Growth Really Start?
  Discussant: Ken Sokoloff, UCLA
  

• Naomi Lamoreaux, UCLA, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, UCLA and INRA-LEA
  Title: Organizational Choice and Economic Development: A Comparison of France and the United States During the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  Discussant: Tom Geraghty, UNC-Chapel Hill
  

• Marianne Ward, Loyola College of Maryland, and John Devereux, Queens College
  Title: New Evidence on Catch-Up and Convergence after 1872
  Discussant: Areendam Chanda, North Carolina State University