28/03/2025 Melanie Xu – QUCEH Seminar Series
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
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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
Councils and Indirect Rule in British Africa Abstract: How did Western colonial rule affect political institutions in Africa? We study the institutional makeup
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
Professor Jane Humphries will give the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 27th February 2025 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre
Climate Politics in the United States Abstract: We study the effects of climate change and mitigation on U.S. politics. We combine 2000-2020 precinct-level voting
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/
Religious Competition and Provision of Public Services Abstract: We argue that competition created through foreign influence in education, between missionaries and ethno-religious minorities can
The Bankruptcy Express: Market Integration, Organizational Changes, and Financial Distress in 19th Century Britain Jean Lacroix is an Associate Professor at the
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/
We look forward to the WEast 2024 Dublin workshop taking place on December 13th and 14th 2024: Hidden Connections: Eastern Europe through a comparative
Religion has played a pivotal role in shaping Ireland’s political economy, especially through community-building and conflict. The division between Christian denominations impacted access
Commodity Price Busts and Financial Stability: Evidence from the 1920s Kilian Rieder is a FWF Schrödinger Prize Fellow at Northwestern University‘s Department of Economics and Paris School of Economics
Shaping growth: different types of human capital and European regional incomes (1870-1950) Gabriele Cappelli is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the
Abstract: This paper documents that large cities played a unique role in women’s economic and social advances in the early 20th century. We first
Superstition, fertility, and modernization: evidence from Japan John Tang is an Economic Historian in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University.
Abstract: Education is a main facilitator of social mobility, and higher education (HE) plays a major role in this. But while returns to HE
Agriculture is pivotal to the story of Ireland, both historically and today. It provided employment, drove exports and dominated policy debates deep into the twentieth
Elections can have profound economic and social consequences. Almost half of the global population went to the polls in 2024, and understanding the potential long-term
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
The Wealth Divide: Has Inequality Doomed The 2024 Elections? Are societies on the brink of fracture due to economic inequality? As 2024 shapes up to
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
Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence Abstract: We examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts.
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