For further details please contact Dr Matthias Morys.
Meetings take place in the meeting room on the second floor in the Economics Department on Tuesdays between 13.15 and 14.15, unless otherwise stated.
Sandwiches,
water, fruit, tea and coffee provided
All welcome
All titles to be confirmed at a later date
17 January
Karen Mumford
On Job Satisfaction, Gender and Relative Wages
24 January
Matteo Pazzona
Migrating Mafia
31 January
Judith Spicksley
Why had enslavement for debt largely disappeared from Europe by
the early modern period?
7 February
Matthias Morys
Business Cycles in South-East Europe 1870 – 2000: A Bayesian Dynamic Factor Model
14 February
Andrew Pickering
Ideology and the Growth of US State Government
21 February
Charles Ndongmo
28 February
Eugenia Shevtsova
International Trade and Productivity: Empirical Evidence from Ukraine
6 March
Mozaffar Qizilbash
18th October
Introductory meeting
25th October
Alex Sadler, Nathalie Sinyard and Sue Bowden (Economics)
Title: What activates respiratory tuberculosis? An economic interpretation
1st November
Paul Mosley (Sheffield University)
Title: Arthur Lewis:1954, Annus Mirabilis
8th November
Sanjoy Bhattacharya (History)
Title: tbc
15th November
David Higgins (Management School)
Title: 'Forgotten Heroes and Forgotten Issues': Business and Trade Mark History to 1914
22nd November
Matteo Pazzona (PhD, Economics)
Title: The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Insights from the Caribbean
29th November
Domna Michailidou (University of Cambridge)
Title: Financial crises in Middle-Income Developing
Countries: A study of excess global liquidity, surges in inflows and liberalised capital accounts
6th December
Nathalie Sinyard and Sue Bowden (Economics)
Title: Short time working in the interwar years
18 Jan
Alex Sadler
Title: Modelling avoidability for tuberculosis mortality
25 Jan
Nathalie Sinyard
Title: Lessons from the 1930s
1 February
Emma Tominey
Title: Dynamic Fertility, Labour Supply Choices and Child Human Capital
8 February
Paul Mosley
Title: Arthur Lewis, Economic Historian
15 February
David Clayton
Title: Water scarcity in Hong Kong in the post-war period
22 February
Hasan Basarir
Title: The effect of relative wealth on subjective health: Evidence from Indonesia
1 March
Sabine Clarke
Title: Economic development plans for the British West Indies, 1940-1960
9 March
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Title: 'A celebration of variation: South Asia in the global smallpox eradication programme'
16 March
Matteo Pazzona
Title: The Determinants of Organised Crime in Italy: a Provincial Analysis
Week 2 (19th October)
Dr. Matthias Morys, University of York:
“The original sin that started only later: How Austria-Hungary’s paper debt turned golden, 1870s – 1914”
The presentation will be preceded by a welcome to new members of CHERRY and some general remarks on the purpose and the activities of CHERRY in the autumn term.
Week 3 (26th October)
Dr. Judith Spicksley, University of York:
“Death, debt and labour: slavery as a form of exchange”
Week 4 (2nd November)
Dr. Martin Uebele, University of Muenster, Germany:
"Market Integration and International Business Cycles - Applying Dynamic Factor Models"
Week 5 (9th November)
Prof. Sue Bowden, University of York
tba
Week 6 (16th November)
Week 7 (23rd November)
Dr. Mark Koyama, University of York :
"Medieval Microcredit? Credit Markets in 14th Century England"
Week 8 (30th November)
Kiril Kossev, Nuffield College, University of Oxford:
“Finance and Growth in Historical Perspective: International Investment and Domestic Productivity in South-East Europe, 1919-1941”
Week 9 (7th December)
Matteo Pazzona, University of York:
"Organised crime and growth in Italy"
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Spring Term
Tuesday 19th January
Overview and update - Sue Bowden, University of York:
Extending Broadcast Technology in the British Colonies during the 1950s – joint work with Alvaro Pereira and David Clayton
Tuesday 26th January
Paul Mosley, University of Sheffield:
Politics, public expenditure and the evolution of poverty in Africa 1920-2007
Tuesday
2nd February
Sue Bowden, University of York:
TB in Europe: gains and losses in the Golden Age (joint work with Alvaro Pereira)
Tuesday 9th February
Nathalie Sinyard, University of York:
Applying Labour Economic Theories to the Historical Past: some initial ideas
Tuesday
16th February (ARRC Seminar Room)
Exam Paper Scrutiny Meeting
Tuesday
23rd February
Sakir Yilmaz, University of York:
The Credit Crunch: Is There any Exit Policy?
2nd March
Alex Sadler, University of York:
Health utilities – evidence from WHO Health Surveys – some initial ideas
Tuesday
9th March
Tim Beatty, University of York:
Children's Respiratory Health: A Cohort Analysis
Tuesday 16th March
Matthias Morys, University of York:
Business Cycles in South-East Europe 1870s to 2000 (joint work with Martin Ivanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
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Autumn Term
Tuesday 20th October
Matthias Morys (University of York):
Monetary policy under the Classical Gold Standard
Tuesday 27th October
Mark Holloway (PhD student, University of York):
Changing Factors Affecting Morbidity & Mortality in the British Youth Population (1918- 39); The Effect on Long Run Economic Development: An Introduction and Overview
Tuesday 3rd November
Kerry Hickson (University of York):
Quantifying Health Gains in Twentieth Century England and Wales: An Initial Contribution
Tuesday 10th November
Matteo Pazzona (PhD student, University of York):
Socio-economic determinants of the origins of the mafia: a comparative analysis between Sicily and Sardinia
Tuesday 17th November
Tuesday 24th November
Martin Foster (University of York):
Applying Survival Analysis in Historical Research
Tuesday 1st December
Susana Martinez Rodriquez (University of York):
Were cooperatives once corporations? Business law and cooperatives law in Spain (1869-1931)
Tuesday 8th December
David Clayton (University of York):
The Political Economy of Radio Broadcasting in the British Empire
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Spring Term
Week 2: 20th February: no meeting
Week 3: 27th February: no meeting
Week 4: 3rd February
Dr Martin Ivanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences):
“Modernisation of a Peripheral Economy: Bulgaria in the Gerschenkronian Mirror”
Week 5: 10th February
Prof. Josephine Maltby (University of York):
“Working-class women and Saving in the UK in the 19th century”
Week 6: 17th February
Prof. Larry Neal (London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
tba
Week 7: 24th February
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (University of Oxford):
“The structure of the news market in Britain, 1870-1914”
Week 8: 3rd March
Lord Meghnad Desai (London School of Economics and Political Science):
tba
We would also like to point out another economic history presentation in week 8:
Dr Martin Forster (University of York)
Prof. Simon D. Smith (Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull):
"Surviving Slavery. Mortality at Mesopotamia, a Jamaican sugar estate, 1762 - 1832"
5th March, 1.15 - 2.45 pm, DERS workshop, ARRC Seminar Room (AC/010)
The Abstract and Discussion Paper for this presentation can be accessed through the Department of Economics' Thursday Workshops webpage.
Week 9: 10th March
Coskun Tuncer (London School of Economics and Political Science):
"The International Financial Control in the Peripheries of the Gold
Standard: The Ottoman Empire, 1880-1914"
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Autumn Term
21st October 2008: no meeting
28th October 2008
Rui Esteves (Economics, Oxford):
“Remittances, capital flows and financial development during the mass migration period, 1870-1913”
4th November 2008
Jas Ellis (LSE):
“Son preference and sex ratios: how many “missing women” are missing?”
11th November 2008 - no meeting
18th November 2008
Scott Urban ( Oxford):
“Floating out of the Depression? Classifying 1930s exchange rate regimes”
25th November 2008 - **CANCELLED**
David Epstein ( York):
“Developing an economic framework to evaluate the social determinants of health.”
2nd December 2008
Max Schulze (LSE)
title tba
9th December 2008
David Higgins (CHERRY) and Sue Bowden (CHERRY)
"Credit Crunches – Old Fashioned Style"
16th December 2008
Katrina Honeyman ( Leeds),
"Child labour and the parish in early British manufacturing"