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[EHRG] UC Davis Economic History Reading Group

2007

Mondays 5-6pm in the department library

Monday February 26, 5pm

5 min talks

Taylor, Alan M. 2002. A Century of Purchasing Power Parity. Review of
Economics and Statistics 84 (February): 139–50
Franklin F. Mendels, "Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of the Industrialization Process," The Journal of Economic History 1972
Kris Mitchener, "Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Instability during the Great Depression." NBER Working Paper (May 2004).

Paper presentation

Go, Sun and Peter Lindert, "Curious Dawn of American Public Schools", Working Paper 2007

Reading List:
Rowena Gray -
- Taylor, A. M., and J. G. Williamson. "Capital Flows to the New World as an Intergenerational Transfer." Journal of Political Economy 102 (April 1994): 348-71.
- Taylor: A Century of Current Account Dynamics. Journal of International
  Money and Finance 21 (November): 725–48.
- Taylor, Alan M., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. “Convergence in the Age of
  Mass Migration.” European Review of Economic History 1 (1997): 27—63
- Taylor, Alan M. “Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass Migration to
  the River Plate, 1870–1914.” Explorations in Economic History 34, no. 1
  (1997): 100–32.
- Taylor, Jacks et al: Stuck on Gold: Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the
  Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard
- Taylor, Alan M. 2002. A Century of Purchasing Power Parity. Review of
  Economics and Statistics 84 (February): 139–50
- Taylor, Alan M. “Sources of Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century.”
  European Economic Review 43 (1999): 1621—45
- Eichengreen and Taylor: The Monetary Consequences of a Free Trade Area of
  the Americas.
- *Taylor, Alan M. “On the Costs of Inward-Looking Development: Price
  Distortions, Growth, and Divergence in Latin America.” Journal of
  Economic History 58 (1998): 1—28
- Obstfeld, Maurice, and Alan M. Taylor. “Globalization and Capital
  Markets.” In Globalization in Historical Perspective, edited by Michael
  D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Chicago: University
  of Chicago Press, 2002
Will Ambrosini - "pre-modern growth (a.k.a. "don't forget Japan!"), inequality and the great depression"

Jason Lee - "the grand American tradition of bank failures"
- Kris Mitchener, "Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Instability during the Great Depression." NBER Working Paper (May 2004).
- Charles Calomiris. "Is Deposit Insurance Necessary? A Historical Perspective" JEH 50 (June 1990): 283-295
- Lee J. Alston, Wayne Grove, and David Wheelock, " Why do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s". EEH 1994, pp. 409-431.
- Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason, "Contagion and Bank Failures During the Great Depression" NBER Working Paper (Sept 2000)
- Richard Grossman, "The Shoe that Didn't Drop: Explaining Banking Stability in the Great Depression" JEH, September 1994.
- Michael Bernstein, "The Contemporary American Banking Crisis in Historical Perspective" Journal of American History, March 1994.
Sun Go - "some recent papers [on human capital] interesting to me"
- Go, Sun and Peter Lindert, "Curious Dawn of American Public Schools", Working Paper 2007
- Ran Abramitzky and Fabio Braggion, "Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas" The Journal of Economic History, Volume 66, Issue 04, December 2006, pp 882-905
- Jason Long, "The Socioeconomic Return to Primary Schooling in Victorian England" The Journal of Economic History, Volume 66, Issue 04, December 2006, pp 1026-1053
- Marco Manacorda, "Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members, Evidence from 1920 America" American Economic Review, December 2006, 96(5) 1788-1800.