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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Enterprising America: Business, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective

William Collins and Robert Margo, Organizers

December 14, 2013

Vanderbilt University

Central Library, Community Room

Nashville, TN

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Saturday, December 14:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Revisiting American Exceptionalism: Business Organizational Forms and Corporate Governance in Comparative Perspective
	Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER
	Discussant: Margaret Blair, Vanderbilt University School of Law
9:50 am	Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
	Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
	Discussant: Claudia Rei, Vanderbilt University
10:40 am	Break
11:10 am	Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing Revisited: A Resolution of the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem
	Robert Margo, Boston University and NBER
	Discussant: William Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch, Community Room, Central Library
	Speaker:  Larry Neal, University of Illinois and NBER
1:30 pm	Were Antebellum Cotton Plantations Factories in the Field?
	Alan C. Olmstead, University of California-Davis
	Paul W. Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
	Discussant: Tom Weiss, University of Kansas and NBER
2:20 pm	The Evolution of Bank Boards of Directors in New York, 1840-1950
	Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University and NBER
	Eugene White, Rutgers University and NBER
	Discussant: Larry Neal, University of Illinois and NBER
3:10 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Did Railroads Make Antebellum U.S. Banks More Sound? Linking Rail Locations with Bank Balance Sheets and Survival Rates
	Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University and NBER Matt Jaremski, Colgate University and NBER Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University and NBER
	Discussant: David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
4:30 pm	Differences in Sources of Credit by Sector: An Exploration of Bankruptcy Records from Mississippi, 1929-1936
	Mary Eschelbach Hansen, American University
	Discussant: Alan Dye, Barnard College
5:20 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Dinner
	Tin Angel Restaurant at 3201 West End Avenue.