Cliometrics is an approach to economic history that is all about the use of economic theory and quantitative methods to explain economic and institutional change.

The LSE Cliometrics Group is a student-run seminar held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is aimed as a forum to present early cliometric research to a friendly, helpful, audience of peers.

For more details on this term's LSE Cliometrics Group seminar series, click here visit the new webpage at the Department for Economic History.

Contact Chris Colvin (c.l.colvin@lse.ac.uk) if you are interested in attending or presenting in future. Alternatively, get in touch using this Facebook page.

Lent Term 2010

25 January
John A. James (University of Virginia)
'Panics and the disruption of private payments networks: The United States in 1893 and 1907' (with James McAndrews and David F. Weiman)
Download full paper from here.

8 February
Ali Coskun Tuncer (LSE)
'International financial control as a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval": An analysis of bond spreads'

22 February
Eoin McLaughlin (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
'Solving the Irish ‘land question’: Land reform and the Irish economy, 1870-1939'

26 February
Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
'Revealing failures in the history of school finance'
Download full paper from here.

8 March
Tom Nicholas (Harvard Business School)
'Real estate prices during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression' (with Anna Scherbina)
Downloaded full paper from here.

15 March
Kiril Kossev (University of Oxford)
'Did foreign money boost domestic productivity? International capital investment and industrial productivity performance of South East Europe during the interwar period'
 

Lent Term 2009

23 January
Chris Payne (Sociology, LSE)
"The crisis of neo-liberal governmentality: Thatcherism, financial liberalisation and the rational economy"

6 February
Chris Colvin
"How and where will the 1920s deflationary crisis hit the Dutch cooperative banking sector?"

13 February
Tamas Vonyo (Oxford)
"The economics of wartime destruction and post-war dislocation: Factor accumulation and productivity growth in West German industry between 1939 and 1950"
Download abstract [here] and full paper [here]

20 February
Gerben Bakker
"How standards become dominant: The half-life of first mover advantages in the music industry, 1873-1990"

27 February
Eric Golson
"A neutral free trade area during war? The Swiss-German klein grenzgebiet (small border area)"

6 March
Sarah Cochrane (Oxford)
"Explaining the City of London's changing position as a leading financial centre, 1870-1939"

Michaelmas Term 2008

24 October
Chris Minns (with Mary MacKinnon)
'The impact of school provision on pupil attendance: Evidence from the early 20th century'
Download the paper here

31 October
Neil Cummins
'Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850'

21 November
Mark Koyama (Oxford)
'Evading the 'Taint of Usury': Complex contracts and segmented capital markets'
Download the paper here

28 November
Fabian Waldinger (Economics, LSE)
'Peer effects in science: Evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany'
Download the paper here

LSE Cliometrics Group mini-conference, 23 May 2008

Session 1: Neil Cummins
Paper: "Malthus to Modernity: When and How did Fertility Behavior Change in the Demographic Transition in England?" (with Greg Clark) [PDF]

Session 2: Chris Minns
Paper: "How fluid were labour markets in pre-industrial Britain? New evidence from apprenticeship records" (with Tim Leunig and Patrick Wallis) [PDF]

Session 3: Marta Felis-Rota
Paper: "Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and its Synergies with Per Capita Income" [PDF]

Session 4:
Speaker: Felipe Tamega Fernandes
Paper: "Taxation and Welfare: The case of Rubber in the Brazilian Amazon (1870-1910)" [PDF]

Session 5: Nikolaus Wolf
Paper: "Endogenous Borders? The effects of new borders on trade in Central Europe 1885-1933" (with Max-Stephan Schulze and Hans-Christian Heinemeyer) [PDF]

Summer Term 2008

30 May
Speaker: John Dodgson
Paper: "TFP growth using perpetual inventory of capital: Midland railway locomotive power in the late nineteenth century" [PDF]

Lent Term 2008

11 January
Speaker: Morten Jerven
Paper: "The African Growth Evidence: Data Quality in East-Central Africa, 1965-1995" [PDF]

25 January
Speaker: Alexander Apostolides
Paper: "The Good the Bad and the Ugly: Lessons learnt in estimating the value added of Cyprus's primary sector and results" [PDF]

8 February
Speaker: Paolo Di Martino (Manchester)
Paper: "Law, class, and entrepreneurship. Bankruptcy and debt discharge in England and Wales, c.1890-1939" [PDF]

15 February
Speakers: David Chambers (Oxford) and Nick Crafts (Warwick)
Papers:
(1) "Were British railway companies well-managed in the early twentieth century?" [PDF]
(2) "Late Victorian railways and investor returns" [PDF]

22 February
Speaker: Xavier Duran
Paper: "The role of markets, governments, and new goods on transport improvements and the first globalisation era: Insights from the case of the Pacific railroad" [PDF]

7 March
Speaker: Peter Cirenza
Paper: "Melting pot or salad bowl? Assessing Irish immigrant assimilation into American society in the late nineteenth century" [PDF]

Michaelmas Term 2007

2 November
Speaker: Felipe Fernandes
Paper: "Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Rubber from British and American Data, 1870-1910" [PDF]

11 November
Speaker: Johann Custodis
Paper: "A model of Prisoner of War profitability, with application" [PDF]

30 November
First speaker: Kevin Tennent
Paper: "Management and Networks: How far were Free Standing Companies controlled from the Home Country? With reference to four Scottish examples" [PDF]

Second speaker: Marta Felis Rota
Paper: "Economic Geography and International Inequality: A Reappraisal" [PDF]

Last updated by Chris Colvin on 12 April 2010