Charles W. Calomiris, Karen Clay, and Trevon D. Logan, Organizers
| Monday, July 11 |
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9:00 am
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Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China
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10:00 am
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Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
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11:15 am
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Purchasing Power Disparity: Who Could Consume More before 1914?
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11:16 am
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The Great Depression and the Cleansing Hypothesis
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11:17 am
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The Benefits of Commitment to a Currency Peg: Lessons from the National Banking System
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11:18 am
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Sovereign Risk and Fiscal (In)attention: A Look at the U.S. State Default of the 1840s
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11:19 am
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The Role of Irrigation in the Development of American Agriculture
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11:20 am
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Sweet Blood: Biological Human Capital and the Peril of Rapid Economic Growth
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11:21
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The Kindergarten Movement and the US Demographic Transition
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1:00 pm
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Recovery from the Great Depression: The Farm Channel in Spring 1933
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2:00 pm
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Bank Networks and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the National Banking Acts
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3:15 pm
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Bank Leverage Trends and Cycles during the National Banking Era
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| Tuesday, July 12 |
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9:00 am
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State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutions, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany
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10:00 am
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Elite Fragmentation, Co-option and the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Theory and a Tale of 14 Islands
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11:15 am
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Analysis of Stigma and Bank Behavior
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11:16 am
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Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?
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11:17 am
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The One-Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Data On the Concentration of Wealth in the United States
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11:18 am
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Colonial Virginia's Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774: Value Decomposition and Performance
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1:00 pm
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The Value of Rural Electricity: Evidence from the Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid
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2:15 pm
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Technological Revolutions and Occupational Change: Electrifying News from the Old Days
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| Wednesday, July 13 |
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9:00 am
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Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian-Americans
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10:00 am
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The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment
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11:15 am
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Blind Tigers and Red Tape Cocktails: Liquor Control and Homicide in Late Nineteenth-Century South Carolina
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1:15 pm
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First Possession of Water in the American West: An Economic Analysis of Property Rights
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2:15 pm
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Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from US Counties
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3:30 pm
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National Policy for Regional Development: Evidence from Appalachian Highways
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| Thursday, July 14 |
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9:00 am
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The Birth of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
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10:00 am
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Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the World War II Book Republication Program
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11:15 am
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Bones, Bacteria and Break Points: The Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of the Black Death and Long-Run Growth
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