Friday, 16 February 2024
Opening Reception at Japanese Restaurant ZIGU
435 Seaside Avenue in the heart of Waikiki.
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Beer, wine, soft drinks, and Japanese food. Our reservation ends promptly
at 7:30 pm!
Saturday, 17 February 2024
All sessions are held at the Shidler College of Business, University of
Hawai‘i-Mānoa, corner of University Ave and Maile Way in Mānoa Valley,
about 2 miles from most hotels in Waikiki.
8:15 AM Registration and coffee
8:45 AM Conference Opening
Session 1: Saturday, Feb. 17, 9 am – 10:30 am Room G103
Session Chair: Xiaojun Wang, University of Hawai‘i, USA
Paper 1: Christian Missionaries and Foreign Trade, 1580-1936
Authors: Zhiwu Chen, Xinhao Li, and Chicheng Ma
Presenter: Chicheng Ma, The University of Hong Kong, China
Paper 2: The Cultural Revolution and Present-day Household Finance
Authors: Jianan Lu, Wenxuan Hou, and Brian Main
Presenter: Brian Main, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK
Paper 3: Economic relations between Southeast Asia and China from the 10th to the 18th Century
Author and Presenter: Stephen Morgan, Nottingham University Business School, UK
Session 2: Saturday, Feb. 17, 9 am – 10:30 am Room C101
Session Chair: Pam Nickless, University of North Carolina, USA
Paper 4: Early-modern Globalization & the Extent of Indigenous Agency: Trade, Commodities, & Ecology
Authors: Ann Carlos, Erik Green, Calumet Links, and Angela Redish
Presenter: Ann Carlos, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Paper 5: The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
Authors: Daniel Grossman, Umair Khalil, and Laura Panza
Presenter: Laura Panza, University of Melbourne and CEPR, Australia
Paper 6: The Spanish Colonization of the Micronesia at the 19th century: New Colonies for Developing the Empire and Keeping the Power away from its Border
Author and Presenter: David Manzano Cosano, University of Cádiz, Spain
10:30 -11 AM Coffee break
Session 3: Saturday, Feb. 17, 11 am -12:30 pm Room C101
Session Chair: Jeff Chan, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Paper 7: Who Lent to Black Homeowners in the 1930s?
Authors: Price Fishback, Jonathon Rose, Ken Snowden, and Thomas Storrs
Presenter: Price Fishback, University of Arizona, USA
Paper 8: An Interwar Lender Encumbered: Home Mortgages and Red Lines in North Carolina
Author and Presenter: Thomas Storrs, University of North Carolina, USA
Paper 9: Prisons and Homophobia
Authors: Maxim Ananyev and Michael Poyker
Presenter: Michael Pokyer, University of Melbourne, Australia
Session 4 Saturday, Feb. 17, 11 am-12:30 pm Room G103
Session Chair: Claire Wright, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Paper 10: Lying Bastards? Comparing Age Information Provided by Prisoners & Soldiers
Authors: Pamela Dilworth, Heidi Ing, Kris Inwood, Rebecca Kippen, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, and John Wilson
Presenter: Heidi Ing, University of South Australia, Australia
Paper 11: Height and Place of Birth for 19th Century Prisoners and Soldiers
Authors: Pamela Dilworth, Heidi Ing, Kris Inwood, Rebecca Kippen, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, and John Wilson
Presenters: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, University of New England, Australia, and Kris Inwood, University of Guelph, Canada
Paper 12: Class and Inequality in a Convict City
Authors: Trudy Cowley, Simon Cocker, Pamela Dilworth, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Monika Schwarz, and Richard Tuffin
Presenters: Monika Schwartz, University of Tasmania, Australia, and Richard Tuffin, University of New England, Australia
12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 PM Business Meeting, Economic History Society of Australia & New Zealand
Room G103
Session 5: Saturday, Feb. 17, 2:30 pm – 4 pm Room G103
Session Chair: Sang-Hyop Lee, University of Hawai‘i, USA
Paper 13: Monopolists for competition? Incumbent action by state-controlled businesses in the era of deregulation
Authors: Erik Lakomaa and Rasmus Nykvist
Presenter: Erik Lakomaa, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Paper 14: From Tabi to Tyres: The Absorption of Foreign Knowledge and Technology in the Japanese Rubber Industry, 1908–1937
Author and Presenter: Thomas Learmouth, London School of Economics, UK
Paper 15: Policy Performance Analysis of Korea's High-Growth Automobile Industry
Author and Presenter: Seungjin Hwang, Seoul National University, South Korea
Session 6: Saturday, Feb. 17, 2:30 pm – 4 pm Room C101
Session Chair: Miroslav Gabrovski, University of Hawai‘i, USA
Paper 16: Trade Policy and Productivity: Evidence from US Industries, 1870-1900
Authors: Alex Klein and Christopher Meissner
Presenter: Christopher Meissner, University of California, Davis, USA
Paper 17: The Impact of Trade Shocks and Trade Policy in the US 19th Century
Author and Presenter: Jeff Chan, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Paper 18: Rise of the paper tigers? UN Sanctions in Rhodesia and South Africa
Authors: Leigh Gardner and Martine Mariotti
Presenter: Martine Mariotti, Australian National University, Australia
4 - 4:30 PM Break
Session 7: Noel Butlin Lecture 4:45 pm – 6 pm Room A101
Session Chair: Lionel Frost, Monash University, Australia
Presenter: Professor Zhiwu Chen, The University of Hong Kong
Presentation is open to the public.
6:15 - 8:45 PM Reception & dinner at College Hill, just a 5-7 walk from
conference site.
Sunday, 18 February 2024
8:15 AM Coffee
Session 8: Sunday, Feb. 18, 9 am – 10:30 am G103
Session Chair: Tim Halliday, University of Hawai‘i, USA
Paper 19: Capitalising Equality: Firm-level Drivers of Women in Corporate Leadership
Author and Presenter: Claire E. F. Wright, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Paper 20: Meritocracy & Its Discontents: Long-run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms
Authors: Mari Tanaka, Yusuke Narita, and Chiaki Moriguchi
Presenter: Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Paper 21: Escape from Biology: Highlighting the Differences between the Agrarian Revolution and the Birth of the Modern World
Presenter: Emanuele Felice, IULM University, Milan, Italy
Session 9: Sunday, Feb. 18, 9 am – 10:30 am Room C101
Session Chair: Brian Main, University of Edinburgh, UK
Paper 22: The Price of Survival: The Origins and Outcomes of Decentralization in Qing China, 1850-1894
Authors: Qianmao Zhu and Rui Wang
Presenter: Rui Wang, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Paper 23: Reason for Treason: The Push and Pull Effects of Military Officer Defections
Authors: Xinyu Fan, Zhihao Xu, Sicheng Zhao
Presenter: Zhihao Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Paper 24: Understanding Conflict: Evidence from China's Warlord Era
Author and Presenter: Kexin Feng, California Institute of Technology, USA
10:30 -11 AM Coffee break
Session 10: Sunday, Feb. 18, 11 am - 12:30 pm Room C101
Session Chair: Ann Carlos, University of Colorado, USA
Paper 25: An Alternative Institutional Path towards Capitalism: Manila’s Religious Funds and the Financing of the Trans-Pacific Trade, 1668-1833
Author and Presenter: Juan Jose Rivas Moreno, University College London & Insitute of Historical Research, UK
Paper 26: Using the Mail to Build a Global Financial Network: The Evolution of the International Postal Money Order System during the First Globalization
Author and Presenter: Florian Ploeckl, University of Adelaide, Australia
Paper 27: The Role of Rumors in the Domestic Sovereign Debt Market: Evidence from Prewar China
Authors: Dan Li and Yajie Wang
Presenter: Dan Li, Fudan University, China
Session 11: Sunday, Feb. 18, 11 am – 12:30 pm Room G103
Session Chair: Edwyna Harris, Monash University, Australia
Paper 28: Constructing an amenities index for Hobart, 1888-1900
Authors: Richard Tuffin, John Wilson, Martin Shanahan, and Lionel Frost
Presenters: Richard Tuffin, University of New England, Australia, and Lionel Frost, Monash University, Australia
Paper 29: Linking Tasmania's Population
Authors: Michael Charleston, Rebecca Kippen, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, and Paul Wilson
Presenter: Paul Wilson, University of Tasmania, Australia
Paper 30: Urban-rural penalties revisited: Infant mortality and real wages in colonial Tasmania
Authors: John Wilson, Lionel Frost, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Martin Shanahan, and Richard Tuffin
Presenter: John Wilson, University of South Australia, Australia
12:30 - 1:15 PM Lunch
Session 12: Sunday, Feb. 18, 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Room G103
Session Chair:
Paper 31: Did Improving the Lot Improve the Lots of the People? Evaluating the Economic Mobility from the Homestead Act
Authors: Steven Smith, Eric Alston, Joe Price, and Bryan Leonard
Presenter: Steven Smith, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Paper 32: Ancient Societies’ Human Development Index for the Near East between the Neolithic and the Iron Age
Authors: Alessandra Tagini, Joerg Baten, Giacomo Benati, and Arkadiush Szoltysiak
Presenter: Alessandra Tagini, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Paper 33: Aboriginal Populations in South Australia, 1788 and 1836
Authors: Edwyna Harris and Sumner La Croix
Presenter: Sumner La Croix, University of Hawai‘i, USA
Session 13: Sunday, Feb. 18, 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm Room C101
Session Chair: Martine Mariotti, Australian National University, Australia
Paper 34: The Capacity of Commerce: The Political Participation of Merchant Groups during the Taiping Rebellion
Presenter: Cai Heqi, London School of Economics, UK
Paper 35: Evolutionary Empire: Demystifying State Formation in Mughal South Asia 1556-1707
Author and Presenter: Safya Morshed, London School of Economics, UK
Paper 36: Cultural Links and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Industry in Late Imperial Russia
Authors: Tamar Matiashvili and Timur Natkov
Presenter: Tamar Matiashvili, Stanford University, USA
Conference is adjourned! 2:45 pm on 18 February 2024