SI 2018 Development of the American Economy

Walker Hanlon, Petra Moser, and Matthew S. Jaremski, Organizers

July 23-26, 2018

NBER

Summer Institute 2018 master schedule

Monday, July 23
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:10 am	Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER Elliot S.M. Oh, University of Maryland Who Owned Citibank? Familiarity Bias and Business Network Influences on Stock Purchases, 1925-1929
10:05 am	Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER Opening the Black Box of the Common-Law Legal Regime: Contrasts in the Development of Corporate Law in Britain and the United States
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Amanda G. Gregg, Middlebury College Steven Nafziger, Williams College The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Egg-Timer Session I
	Jaqueline Craig, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER Gregory Niemesh, Miami University and NBER Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility for Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850-1910
	Mario Chacon, New York University Abu Dhabi Jeffrey Jensen, NYU Abu Dhabi De Facto Power, Democracy, and Taxation: Evidence from Military Occupation during Reconstruction
	Jhacova Williams, American University Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks
1:40 pm	Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Donna Feir, University of Victoria Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto Maggie Jones, Emory University and NBER The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains
3:40 pm	Elena Esposito, Université de Lausanne Side Effects of Immunity: The Rise of African Slavery in the US South
4:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 24
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER Katharine Liang, Northwestern University Jackson, the Bank War and the Panic of 1837: New Evidence
9:55 am	Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University and NBER Silverback Bankers
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER David C. Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Banking on the Boom, Tripped by the Bust: Banks and the World War I Agricultural Price Shock
11:50 am	Lunch
12:50 pm	Egg-Timer Sesson II
	Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University Dominic P. Parker, University of Wisconsin Terry L. Anderson, Stanford University Poverty from Incomplete Property Rights: Evidence from American Indian Reservations
	Michael Leeds, Temple University Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University and NBER Jim Crow in the Saddle: the Expulsion of African American Jockeys from American Racing
	Sanjiv Das, Santa Clara University Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College and NBER Systemic Risk and the Great Depression
	Anton Bonnier, Uppsala University Adam Izdebski, Jagiellonian University in Krakow Tymon Sloczynski, Brandeis University Grzegorz Koloch, Warsaw School of Economics Katerina Kouli, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Landscape Change and Market Integration in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data
1:55 pm	José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Yale University Santiago Truffa, Universidad de Los Andes Playing Checkers in Chinatown
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER Daniel Sturm, London School of Economics The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London
3:50 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 25
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Growth
9:55 am	Bruno Caprettini, University of St Gallen Fabio S. Schmidt-Fischbach, University of Oxford Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich From Welfare To Warfare: New Deal Spending and Patriotism During World War Ii
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse School of Economics Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics Taxing Unwanted Populations: Fiscal Policy and Conversions in Early Islam
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin Forgotten Booms and Busts: New Sale and Rental Price Indices for US Housing, 1890-1990
1:55 pm	Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Contract Choice in the Interwar US Residential Mortgage Market
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER Outside Options (Now) More Important than Race in Explaining Tipping Points in US Neighborhoods
3:50 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner -- Meridien Hotel
Thursday, July 26
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Philipp Ager, University of Mannheim Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War
9:55 am	David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Ciprian Domnisoru, Aalto University Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Era of Upward Mobility (slides)
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Dora Costa, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Noelle Yetter, NBER Heather DeSomer, NBER The Intergenerational Transmission of Paternal Trauma: Evidence from US Civil War Ex-POWs
11:50 am	Lunch and Adjourn