The Centre for Finance and Development at The Graduate Institute Geneva organises currently two seminar series.
Our International Macro History Online Seminar, a collaboration with an international network of universities, brings macroeconomic history topics to an interested public on a weekly basis.
Our upcoming Finance and Development Online Seminar will focus on questions of financing development.
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The autumn 2020 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 23 September to 9 December 2020 and will take place virtually every Wednesday at 17:00 (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with extra an optional 15 minutes for further discussion (primarily with graduate students).
Registration and recordings of past sessions
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Contact: macrohist@graduateinstitute.ch
Programme
23 September 2020: Black Swans, Dragon Kings and Gray Rhinos: The World War of 1914-1918 and the Pandemic of 2020-?, Niall Ferguson
30 September: The Role of Sentiment in the Economy of the 1920s, Ali Kabiri & Harold James
7 October: Hidden Wealth, Neil Cummins
14 October: How Vulture Investors Draft Constitutions: North and Weingast 30 years Later, Marc Flandreau
21 October: Understanding Persistence, Morgan Kelly
28 October: When Property Rights Are Not Enough: Lessons from Renaissance Florence, Francesca Trivellato
4 November: The Berlin Stock Exchange in the ‘Great Disorder’, Caroline Fohlin
11 November: Corporate Finance of Industry in a Developing Economy: Panel Evidence from Imperial Russia, Amanda Gregg
18 November: What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?, Daniel Waldenström
25 November: Human Development in the Age of Globalisation, Leandro Prados de la Escosura
2 December: The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking Era, Mark A. Carlson
9 December: Contagion of Fear, Kris James Mitchener & Gary Richardson
About the International Macro History Online Seminar
The International Macroeconomic History Online Seminar Series, jointly organised by the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development and a consortium of numerous other universities and institutions from around the world, aims to keep the flow of intellectual debate active and to bring macroeconomic history topics to an interested public on a weekly basis.
A virtual format has important advantages, namely, by abolishing physical constraints, so we can have more participants joining in from compatible time zones than the conventional seminars. This is good for the presenters, who are exposed to a broader audience and also for the audience, who can choose to attend seminar series closer to their own research interests. This advantage is greater for specialized sub-disciplines. This is the reason why we launched a seminar in macro history. Finally, co-ordinating a joint seminar series provides economies of scale in time use.
Participant Institutions
Banque de France, The Graduate Institute, Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Judge Business School Cambridge, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, King’s College London, London School of Economics, NYU-Abu Dhabi, Paris School of Economics, Princeton University, Queen’s University Belfast, Rutgers University, Sciences Po, Solvay Business School, Universitat de Barcelona, University Carlos III Madrid, University College London, University of California, Berkeley, University of Geneva, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Yale University.