BETA, UMR 7522 CNRS-Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg
Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion - Pôle Européen de Gestion et d’Economie
61, Avenue de la Forêt Noire, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France

2nd BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics

Friday, 5 May

9.15-9.20 LLERENA, P. (BETA-Strasbourg): Welcome Address.
9.20-9.30 DIEBOLT, C. (BETA-Strasbourg): Introduction to Economic Growth and Cycles.
Session 1 – Chair: EGE, R. (BETA-Strasbourg).
9.30-10.15 WITT, U. (Max Planck Institut-University of Jena): Accounting for Historical Contingencies in Economic Theory vs. Theorizing about Economic History.
10.15-11.00 HAGEMANN, H. (University of Hohenheim): Research Institutes on Business Cycles in the German Language Area in the Interwar Period.
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break.
Session 2 – Chair: DOS SANTOS FERREIRA, R. (BETA-Strasbourg).
11.15-12.00 SOLOMOU, S. (Cambridge University): Episodic Long Swings in Economic Growth: the 19th and 20th Centuries.
12.00-12.45 FIELD, A. (Santa Clara University): US Economic Growth in the Gilded Age.
12.45-14.00 Lunch.
Session 3 – Chair: KOEBEL, B. (BETA-Strasbourg).
14.00-14.45 METZ, R. (St. Gallen University & ZHSF Cologne): Long Waves in Higher Education in Germany.
14.45-15.30 LJUNGBERG, J. & NILSSON, A. (Lund University): Human Capital and Economic Growth: Sweden 1870-2000.
15.30-15.45 Coffee Break.
Session 4 – Chair: DIEBOLT, C. (BETA-Strasbourg).
15.45-16.30 RITSCHL, A. & UEBELE, M. (Humboldt University Berlin): Stock Markets and Business Cycle Comovement in Germany before World War I: Evidence from Spectral Analysis.
16.30-17.15 SILVERBERG, G. (Maastricht University): The Statistical Phenomenology of Innovation in the Longue Durée.
17.15-18.00 MISHRA, T. (BETA-Strasbourg): Shocks and History: Retrospecting Interrelatedness and the Need for New Methodology.
19.30 Dinner.

Saturday, 6 May

Session 5 – Chair: KERN, F. (BETA-Strasbourg).
9.30-10.15 REATI, A. (Technical University of Lisbon) & TOPOROWSKI, J. (Amsterdam University): An Economic Policy for the Fifth Long Wave.
10.15-11.00 BISMANS, F. & MOUGEOT, C. (BETA-Nancy): Business Cycles in France: Measurement and Forecasting.
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break.
Session 6 – Chair: PARENT, A. (BETA-Strasbourg).
11.15-12.00 RUBIO, M. (University Pompeu Fabra): Protectionist but Globalized? Latin American Custom Duties and Trade during the Pre-1914 Belle Epoque.
12.00-12.45 HUBERMAN, M. (University of Montreal): A Ticket to Trade. Belgian Labour and Globalisation before 1914.
12.45-14.00 Lunch.
Session 7 – Chair: LLERENA, P. (BETA-Strasbourg).
14.00-14.45 SCHULZE, M.S. (London School of Economics) & WOLF, N. (Free University of Berlin): Harbingers of Dissolution? Grain Prices, Borders and Nationalism in the Habsburg Economy before the First World War.
14.45-15.30 HEINEMEYRE, H.C. (Free University of Berlin): What was really the Effect of World War I on Economic Disintegration in Central Europe? An Evaluation of the Pre- and Post- War Trade of German and Polish Regions.
15.30-16.00 Conclusion.