Fifth Financial History Workshop
Speakers
Abstract
Program: |
9.30-10.00 |
Coffee and Welcome |
10.00-11.30 |
Session 1 |
Carola Frydman (MIT): “Predators or Watchdogs? Bankers on Corporate Boards in the Age of Finance Capitalism” (with Eric Hilt) | |
Kim Oosterlinck (ULB): “Was the Emergence of the Gold Standard Expected? Melodramatic Evidence from Indian Government Securities” (with Marc Flandreau) | |
11.30-11.45 | Coffee break |
11.45-12.30 | Session 2 |
David Chambers (Cambridge University) : “Keynes the Stock Market Investor” (with Elroy Dimson) | |
12.30-15.00 | Lunch with speech |
Randall Morck (University of Alberta): “Economics, History, and Causation” | |
15.00-16.30 | Session 3 |
Marc Deloof (University of Antwerp): "Long Run Stock Returns: Evidence from Belgium 1838-2008" (with Jan Annaert and Frans Buelens) | |
Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University): “From Competition to Cartel: Bank Mergers in the U.K. 1885 to 1925” (with Narly Dwarkasing and Lyndon Moore) | |
16.30-16.45 | Coffee break |
16.45-17.30 | Session 4 |
Stephanie Collet (ULB/LSE): “A Window Dressing Story: Sovereign Bonds during the Netherlands-Belgium Break-up” | |
17.30 | End and Drinks |
Information and registration: |
Abe de Jong |