Thursday, July 8, 2004
2:00 – 2:45 PM	Room: Auditorium Chair: John Wallis Contact Author: William J. Collins Co-Author: Robert A. Margo	“The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values”
	Room: 1E Chair: Gianni Toniolo Contact Author: Yarira Gonzalez De Lara	“The State as an Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: A Historical Institutional Analysis”
	Room: 1G Chair: Michael Haines Contact Author: Concepcion Garcia-Iglesias Co-Author: Juha K. Kilponen	“Trends, Cycles and Economic Growth in the Nordic Countries during the Classical Gold Standard Period”
2:45 – 2:50 PM	Five Minute Break
2:50 – 3:35 PM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Frank Lewis Contact Author: David S. Jacks	“What Drove 19th Century Market Integration?”
	Room: 1E Chair: Paul Rhode Contact Author: J. T. Toman	“The Papal Conclave: How Do Cardinals Divine the Will of God?”
	Room: 1G Chair: Lee Craig Contact Author: John D. Turner Co-Author: Charles R. Hickson	“Much Ado About Nothing: The Introduction of Limited Liability and the Market for Nineteenth-century Irish Bank Stock”
3:35 – 4:00 PM	Twenty-Five Minute Break
4:00 – 4:45 PM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Natalia Mora-Sitja Contact Author: Mary MacKinnon Co-Authors: Chris Minns, Alan Green	“The Costs of Doing Hard Time: A Penitentiary-based Regional Price Index for Canada, 1880-1925”
	Room: 1E Chair: Albrecht Ritschl Contact Author: Marc D. Weidenmier Co-Author: Kris James Mitchener	“How are Sovereign Debtors Punished? Evidence from the Gold Standard Era”
	Room: 1G Chair: Jason Long Contact Author: Haggay Etkes Co-Author: Miri Shefer	“Early Modern Globalisation and the De-urbanisation of the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Jerusalem”
4:45 – 4:50 PM	Five Minute Break
4:50 – 5:35 PM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Knick Harley Contact Author: David Mitch	“Was the Shift from Sail to Steam in Ocean Shipping, 1860 to 1912, Skill-biased?”
	Room: 1E Chair: John Murray Contact Author: Martin P. Shanahan Co-Authors: Livio Di Matteo, J.C. Herbert Emery	“Life Insurance and Wealth: Evidence from Ontario, 1892 and South Australia, 1905-1915”
	Room: 1G Chair: Rebecca Menes Contact Author: Alvaro S. Pereira	“Triple Engines of Growth: Why did Sustained Growth Emerge in Europe and not in Asia?”
7:00 PM	Dinner
Friday, July 9, 2004
8:30 – 9:15 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Debin Ma Contact Author: Samuel H. Williamson Co-Author: Lawrence H. Officer	“What is Something Worth?”
	Room: 1E Chair: Adolfo Meisel Contact Author: Giovanni Vecchi Co-Author: Michela Coppola	“Nutrition and Growth in Italy, 1861-1911. What Macroeconomic Data Hide”
	Room: 1G Chair: Giovanni Federico Contact Author: Brooks Kaiser Co-Author: James Roumasset	“Coase, Blackboard Economics and the Evolution of Marine Property in Hawaii”
9:15 – 9:20 AM	Five Minute Break
9:20 – 10:05 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Stephen Broadberry Contact Author: Jari Eloranta	“Struggle for Leadership? Military Spending Behavior of the Great Powers, 1870-1913”
	Room: 1E Chair: Jayne Toman Contact Author: Drew Keeling	“The Economics of Migratory Transport Between Europe and the USA, 1900-14”
	Room: 1G Chair: William Collins Contact Author: Dan Bogart	“Turnpike Trusts and the Transportation Revolution in 18th Century England”
10:05-10:25 AM	Twenty Minute Break
10:25-11:10 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Susan Carter Contact Author: Gavin Wright Co-Author: Gary Saxonhouse	“Stretching Cotton Fibers Around the World: Diffusion, Learning and Competing Paradigms in Spinning Technology, 1878-1933”
	Room: 1E Chair: Alan Taylor Contact Author: Adolfo Meise Co-Author: Margarita Vega	“A Tropical Success Story: A Century of Improvements in the Biological Standard of Living, Colombia 1910-2002”
	Room: 1G Chair: Joerg Baten Contact Author: Carsten Burhop Co-Author: Guntram B. Wolff	“A Compromise Estimate of Net National Product and the Business Cycle in Germany 1851-1913”
11:10-11:15 AM	Five Minute Break
11:15 - 12:00 Noon	Room: Auditorium Chair: Peter Howlett Contact Author: Concha Betran Co-Author: Maria A. Pons	“Wage Inequality and Globalisation: What Can we Learn from the Past?”
	Room: 1E Chair: Carol Leonard Contact Author: Steven Nafziger	“Land Redistributions and the Russian Peasant Commune in the Late-Imperial Period”
	Room: 1G Chair: Tsutomu Hirayama Contact Author: Debin Ma Co-Authors: Kyoji Fukao, Tangjun Yuan	“International Comparison in Historical Perspective: Reconstructing the 1934-36 Benchmark Purchasing Power Parity for Japan, Korea and Taiwan”
Noon – 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 PM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Kentaro Saito Contact Author: Susan B. Carter Co-Author: Richard Sutch	“Why Not In Australia? Immigration and Economic Growth in the Age of Mass Migration”
	Room: 1E Chair: Gavin Wright Contact Author: Bishnupriya Gupta Co-Author:	“Work and Efficiency in Cotton Mills: Did the Indian Entrepreneur Fail?”
	Room: 1G Chair: David Greasley Contact Author: Gerhard Kling Co-Author: Markus Baltzer	“Resiliency of the Pre-World-War I German Stock Exchange: Evidence from a Panel Vector Autoregression”
2:15 – 2:20 PM	Five Minute Break
2:20 – 3:05 PM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Jari Eloranta Contact Author: Christopher M. Meissner Co-Author: J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova	“Globalization and Democracy, 1870-2000”
	Room: 1E Chair: Martin Shanahan Contact Author: Andrew J. Seltzer	“Takeovers and Implicit Contracts During the First Great Merger Wave: Evidence from the Australian Banking Industry”
	Room: 1G Chair: Leandro Prados Contact Author: Marco Sunder	“On the 'Biological Standard of Living' of the Wealthy in 19th Century America”
3:05 – 3:30 PM	Twenty-Five Minute Break
3:30 – 4:15 PM	Room: Auditorium Chair: William Sundstrom Contact Author: Stephen N. Broadberry Co-Author: Douglas A. Irwin	“Labor Productivity in the United States and the United Kingdom During the Nineteenth Century”
	Room: 1E Chair: Samuel Williamson Contact Author: Gerben Bakker	“Setting the Standard: Path Dependence and the Economics of Standardisation in the Music Industry”
	Room: 1G Chair: Brooks Kaiser Contact Author: Les Oxley Co-Author: David Greasley	“The Pastoral Boom and Long Swings in New Zealand Economic Growth: Explaining the Long Depression of the 1920s”
4:15 – 4:25 PM	Ten Minute Break
4:25 – 5:10 PM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Alex Field Contact Author: Jeffrey G. Williamson Co-Author: David Clingingsmith	“Indian De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence”
	Room: 1E Chair: Robert Millward Contact Author: Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato Co-Author: Aldo Musacchio	“Organizational Choice in a French Civil-Law Underdeveloped Economy: Partnerships, Corporations and the Chartering of Business in Mexico, 1886-1910”
	Room: 1G Chair: Sevket Pamuk Contact Author: Aravinda Meera Guntupalli Co-Author: Joerg Baten	“Trends and Inequalities of Biological Welfare in North, West and East India, 1910-45”
7:00 PM	Dinner and Speech Speaker: Rehinold Müller	"Venice as a Financial Center"
Saturday, July 10, 2004
8:30 – 9:15 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Jeffrey Williamson Contact Author: C. Knick Harley	“The North Atlantic Meat Trade and it's Institutional Consequences, 1870-1913”
	Room: 1E Chair: Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur Contact Author: Angelo Riva	“The Competition Between Genoa and Milan Stock Exchanges Before 1914: A View from Industrial Economics”
	Room: 1G Chair: Price Fishback Contact Author: Javier Silvestre	“Institutional Change and Industrial Accidents: Spain, 1900-1936”
9:15 – 9:20 AM	Five Minute Break
9:20 – 10:05 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: David Mitch Contact Author: Kentaro Saito Co-Authors: Ken'ichi Tomobe, Tsutomu Hirayama	“Market Integration and Standards of Living in Modern Japan: 1899-1939”
	Room: 1E Chair: Alvaro Pereira Contact Author: Louis P. Cain Co-Author: David D. Haddock	“Those Peculiar Sports Leagues: An Economic History of Transatlantic Contrasts”
	Room: 1G Chair: Petra Moser Contact Author: Alan M. Taylor Co-Author: Reuven Glick	“Collateral Damage: The Economic Impact of War”
10:05-10:25 AM	Twenty Minute Break
10:25-11:10 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Richard Sutch Contact Author: Stefano Battilossi	“The Political Economy of Financial Repression in Europe, 1950-91: A Public Finance Story?”
	Room: 1E Chair: Chris Minns Contact Author: William A. Sundstrom Co-Author:	“The College Gender Gap in the United States, 1940-2000: Trends and International Comparisons”
	Room: 1G Chair: Les Oxley Contact Author: Pedro Lains	“Portugal's Growth Paradox, 1870-1950”
11:10-11:15 AM	Five Minute Break
11:15 - 12:00 Noon	Room: Auditorium Chair: Max-Stephen Shulze Contact Author: David Khoudour-Casteras	“International Migration and Exchange Rate Regimes: A Comparison Between the Classical and the Interwar Gold Standards”
	Room: 1E Chair: Angelo Riva Contact Author: Leandro Prados de la Escosura Co-Author: Isabel Sanz-Villarroya	“Property Rights and Economic Backwardness in Argentina: A Historical Perspective”
	Room: 1G Chair: Marc Wiedenmeier Contact Author: Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur Co-Author: Muriel Petit-Konczyk	“The Development of the Paris Bourse in the Interwar Period - What Old and New Stock Indices Tell Us”
12:00 Noon	Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 PM	European Historical Economics Society Trustees Meeting Afternoon Excursion to the Arsenale (Optional). There will be a separate charge.
5:30 – 6:30 PM	European Historical Economics Society General Meeting
7:00 PM	Dinner
Sunday, July 11, 2004
9:00 – 9:45 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: David Haddock Contact Author: Petra Moser	“Do Patents Facilitate Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from the Geography of Innovations at the Crystal Palace”
	Room: 1E Chair: Mary MacKinnon Contact Author: Mohammad Maljoo	“Iranian Teachers' Responses to Job Dissatisfaction in Post-Revolutionary Iran”
	Room: 1G Chair: Kris Mitchener Contact Author: Esteban A. Nicolini Co-Author: Fernando Ramos	“An Estimation of the Money Demand for Pre-industrial Economies: The Use of Probate Inventories and the Case of Spain in the 18th Century”
9:45 – 9:50 AM	Five Minute Break
9:50 – 10:35 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Stefano Battilosi Contact Author: Max-Stephan Schulze Co-Author: Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett	“Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the Dynamics of the International Income Distribution, 1950-1998”
	Room: 1E Chair: Eric Hilt Contact Author: Alexander J. Field	“Technological Change and U.S. Economic Growth: the Interwar Period and the 1990s”
	Room: 1G Chair: Yadira Gonzales de Lara Contact Author: Ran Abramitzky	“Risk Sharing, Adverse Selection and Institutional Change: The Case of the Israeli Kibbutz”
10:35–10:50 AM	Fifteen Minute Break
10:50-11:35 AM	Room: Auditorium Chair: Chris Meissner Contact Author: Conor Healy Co-Author: Klaus Veigel	“Bridging the Generational Divide - Currency Crisis in Theory and History”
	Room: 1E Chair: Lou Cain Contact Author: Vincent Bignon	“Black and Grey Markets of Illegal Exchanges in Post WWII Germany”
	Room: 1G Chair: Andrew Seltzer Contact Author: Natalia Mora-Sitja	“Exploring Changes in Earnings Inequality: Barcelona, 1856-1905”

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