Author: Andrea Ramazzotti (Universitas Mercatorum) Motivation Do minimum wages create spatial mismatches in local labour markets by affecting migration decisions? Internal migration is key to the efficient allocation of labour within a country, underpinning agglomeration economies and moderating aggregate unemployment. However, internal migration has fallen across high-income countries in the past three decades, despite spatial […]
An Illusory Feeling of Stability: Bank Failures in France in the 1920s
Author: David Demilly (Banque de France, CRED & Paris-Panthéon-Assas University) Economic historians often describe the 1920s in France as a period of remarkable banking stability. This new article argues that this calm was, at least in part, an illusion. Drawing on previously unexploited archival data from Crédit Lyonnais, the Banque de France and French commercial […]
Capital and Coercion: Why Slavery Persisted after Britain Banned the Trade
Author: Igor Martins (Lund University) In 1807, Britain outlawed the slave trade across its empire. Yet in the Cape Colony, households continued accumulating slaves for decades afterwards. New evidence from digitised tax censuses suggests the answer lies not in labour demand, but in the financial value of enslaved people as capital assets. A supply shock […]
Post-doctoral Positions in the Economic History Program Yale University
Now Accepting Applications for Post-doctoral Positions in the Economic History Program, Yale University The Economic History Program, housed within the Department of Economics and the Economic Growth Center, seeks an exceptional candidate for a Postdoctoral Associate position for the 2025-2026 academic year. This is a one-year, full-time appointment, with the possibility of renewal. This position […]
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Title: Postdoctoral Associate Section: US: Other Academic (Visiting or Temporary) Location: New Haven, CT, United States Now Accepting Applications for Post-doctoral Positions in the Program of Ethics, Politics, and Economics. The Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics (EP&E), Yale The Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics sponsors interdisciplinary teaching and research in the Social Sciences […]
Call for Papers: The Financial History of (De)Colonisation in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Call for Papers: The Financial History of (De)Colonisation in the 19th and 20th Centuries University of Antwerp, 16-17 May, 2025 In May 2025 we will host a workshop dedicated to exploring the financial dimensions of colonisation and decolonisation. This event is the first of a series of workshops, organised by the University of Antwerp and […]
Call for papers: 2024 Annual Cliometric Conference
The 2024 Annual Cliometric Conference will be held on Friday-Saturday, May 31 – June 1, 2024, in Washington DC, sponsored by American University and the National Science Foundation. The conference will pay most travel and lodging expenses for faculty and graduate students chosen to attend. Proposals to present a paper, or to attend the conference without […]
The Highs and The Lows- Swedish Bank Failures through Inflation and Deflation (1914-26)
by Seán Kenny, Anders Ögren, and Liang Zhao Paper available here In the current context, it is difficult to imagine any policy discussion that does not involve interest rate movements and rising prices. The dual shock of supply chain disruptions induced by Covid-19 and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine have led to inflation rates that […]
Terms of trade during the first globalization: new evidence, new results
David Chilosi, Giovanni Federico, Antonio Tena-Junguito Read the full paper here The debates. Did trends or volatility of terms of trade hold back the global periphery? Economists and economic historians have asked this question since the 1950s, when Prebisch and Singer argued that the worsening of terms of trade of peripheral countries from the beginning of the […]