Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China  Abstract: This paper investigates how ideas influence political institutions over time, focusing on Wang Yangming’s

  Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800 Abstract: Economic Historians have long assumed that colonial Spanish American finance was poorly developed.

  Off the Map: Informational Capacity and Local Development in Colonial Ireland  Abstract: How do changes in the state’s informational capacities shape the security of property

  Coercive Assimilation Policy Across Generations: Evidence from American Indian Boarding Schools Abstract: Throughout history, governments, colonial powers, and other state actors have sought to

  Commodity Spot-Future Spreads and Inflation Expectations, 1877-2020   Elissa Iorgulescu is a PhD candidate at the University of Hohenheim

  Entrepreneurship in King Leopold’s Congo Free State   Marc Deloof is a Professor of Corporate Finance at the University of Antwerp. https://marcdeloof.wordpress.com/

  The Original Gangsters: The Big 4 Auditors in Their Early Days​   Muhan Hu is a lecturer in Finance at Strathclyde Business School. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/humuhanmrs/

  Shaping growth: different types of human capital and European regional incomes (1870-1950)​   Gabriele Cappelli is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the

  Superstition, fertility, and modernization: evidence from Japan   John Tang is an Economic Historian in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University.

  A Royal Principal-Agent Relationship: Insights from a Chartered Company Niamh Brennan is Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin and Founder/Academic Director

  Land Reform and Access to Credit: The Response of Bankruptcies to Land Enclosures in England, 1750-1830 ​ Karine van der Beek is a senior lecturer

  Collateral damage: The financial economics of slavery​   Peter Koudijs is a Professor of Finance and History at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University

    Joost Jonker is based at the University of Amsterdam: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/j/o/j.p.b.jonker/j.p.b.jonker.html

  The event took place at the Student Hub Seminar Room 2 (0G.039B) and showcased first year PhD projects from Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity

  Skilled Labour Inflows and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from Post-War Germany​ Abstract: This study uses a novel county-level database on German World War

  Living La Vida Loca? Investing in Latin America 1870-1929   Áine Gallagher is a Lecturer (Education) in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast. https://ceph.ie/people-re/aine-gallagher/

  Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and socio-economic effects of Reconstruction in the American South​   Richard Grossman is Andrews Professor of Economics

  Reactionary Utopia: Radicalization and Violence in the Russian Empire​ ​Abstract: We examine the influence of left-wing terrorism in imperial Russia between the 1880s and

  Monetary policy at the periphery during the classical gold standard: Italy (1894-1913)   Abstract: Focusing on the dominant bank of issue of the time (the

  The Task and Skill Content of Past Technological Change: Job Creation and Job Quality in the US Transportation Revolution   Ben Schneider is a Postdoctoral

  Grandfathered Out:  Sheltering from Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain   Hillary is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economic History at the London

  Brokers in Turbulent Economies: Trust in Flux   Emily Buchnea is an Associate Professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/b/emily-buchnea/