• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Lewis Willcocks , Panarat Anamwathana , Simon Unger , Robin Adams
• Timing: Wednesdays from 12:45-2pm
• Organising department: Nuffield College

Wednesday 14 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Male and female living standards in Bruges 1780-1880 (Anthropometrics)
  Ewout Depauw (Ghent)

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - In Search of the Perfect Scarlet: Rent-Seeking and Agrarian Entrepreneurship in 17th Century West Country
  Yasir Nawaz (Oxford)

Wednesday 28 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Causes of bank distress during the AustroHungarian “Gründerkrach”
  Kilian Rieder (Oxford)

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Fiscal Capacity, Tax Composition and the (in)stability of Government Revenues in the Interwar Period
  Andrea Papadia (LSE)

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Squeezing the Bears: Cornering Risk and Limits on Arbitrage during the British Bicycle Mania, 1896-1898
  William Quinn (QUB)

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The Making and Possessing of Quality: The Metalware Trade in England, c.1675-1785
  Rachael Morton (Warwick)

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The 1866 Banking Crisis and Trade
  Chenzi Xu (Harvard)

Wednesday 2 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Women’s wages in Pre-Industrial Scandinavia
  Kathryn Gary (Lund)

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Does sterilised central bank intervention have long term effects on exchange rate? The case of the British Exchange Equalisation Account, 1945-1972
  Alain Naef (Cambridge)

Wednesday 3 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The 1931 Crisis in Central Europe – Causes, Contagion and the Role of Policy
  Flora Macher (LSE)

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Accounting for banking distress in Italy during the Great Depression. The long roots of small and medium banks
  Marco Molteni (Oxford)

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Shocking Racial Attitudes: The Cultural Legacy of Black G.I.s in Europe
  Mark Westcott (LMU Munich)

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Trade in Germany 1880-1913
  Fabian Hungerland (Berlin)
• 17:00 - Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire
  Professor Andrei Markevic (New Economic School, Moscow)

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Merchant Bank Acceptances and the British Economy, 1870-1913
  Walter Jansson (Cambridge)

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Top Income Shares in Prussia 1852 - 1891
  TBA

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The role and function of animals in the Roman debate on "luxuria"
  David Schmidt (University of Freiberg)