The UC3M Ph.D. Program in Economic History holds an Annual Workshop where doctoral researchers present and discuss with faculty members their ongoing research.
The 8th Edition will take place on Thursday, February 22, 2024 in classroom 15.1.01.
09:30-11:30
Chair: Juan Carmona
Yu-Chien Jen: "The Eruption of Mount Tambora and the Long-Term Measures for Rice Production"
Leo Dolan: “Mining the Past: Labour, Economics, and Institutional Dynamics in 20th-Century African Diamond Mines (1915-1985)”
Boyu Fang: “Chain Entrepreneurship and Social Networks among Overseas Chinese: Historical Evidence from Indonesia (1890-1940)”
11:45 -13:45
Chair: Dácil Juif
Ángel Muñiz: "The Economic Lifeline: Spanish Emigrants Remittances and their Impact on Public Finances"
Nicolás Varela: "After the Institutions, Franco? The Assemblage of Monetary Policy during the Francoist Dictatorship (1939-1975)"
Onur Yükçü: “Barriers to Trade: Ethnoreligious Networks in Post-Ottoman Istanbul”
LUNCH
14.45-16:05
Chair: Nicolás Varela
(Online Session)
Afolabi Opeyemi: "From Parents to Children, from Youth to Adulthood: Social Class Mobility in Spain across Generations and Life Stages (1850-1936)"
Pierre Brassac: "Wealth Accumulation in WW2 Paris"
16:15-17:35
Chair: Leo Dolan
(Online Session)
Ana Catelén: “The Pendulum of Argentine Economic Policy in the Long-Run”
David Forero: “The long-term positive effects of trade integration in Latin America on exports’ diversification and sophistication: 1913-2013”
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The 7th Edition took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 in classroom 18.1.A5.
09:30-10:50
Chair: Juan Carmona
Yu-Chien Jen: "The Comparison Research of the Agricultural Production between the United Kingdom and Taiwan from 1809 to 1818: The Contextual Influence of the Eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815"
Ángel Muñiz: "The Persistence of the ‘Foros’ System in Galicia and its Effect on Wages"
11:00 -12:20
Chair: Miguel Artola
Leo Dolan: “Fixing a Flawed Diamond: From Coercive Policies to Inclusive Practice. Angola, 1918 – 1974”
Boyu Fang: “Trading Forces and Chinese Immigrant Population in the Far East Waters in Early Modern Time (1500-1860)”
12.30-13:50
Chair: Stefan Houpt
Pierre Brassac: "Wealth Accumulation in WW2 Paris"
Nicolás Varela: "Old Policies Call for Old Data: Assessing Spanish Monetary Policy Through High-Frequency Coetaneous Indicators"
15:00-16:20
Chair: Antonio Tena
Afolabi Opeyemi: "Rural Development in an Unequal Region"
Onur Yükçü: “New Cotton Elites in Turkey during the Nation-Building Process”
16:30-17:50
Chair: Pierre Brassac
Ana Catelén: “Are all Business Cycles Alike? A Study of Argentinian Economic Recessions in the Long 20th Century”
David Forero: “The Three Mechanisms that Make Industrialization an Engine of Economic Growth in Latin America (1913-2013)”
You can download below the Workshop Programme.