[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
- 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.
- Will Ambrosini - "pre-modern growth (a.k.a. "don't forget Japan!"), inequality and the great depression"
- The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and... - Google Book Search
- Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of the Industrialization Process
- Bringing the Covert Structure of the Past to Light
- Pre-Modern Economic Growth Revisited: Japan And The West
- Inequality, Arnold Kling
- The Theory of the Leisure Class - Google Book Search
- INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1913-2002*
- Family Income Mobility – How Much Is There and Has It Changed?
- The New Deal Legacy, Arnold Kling
- The Great Crash 1929 - Google Book Search
- Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression
- Does Monetary Policy Matter? A New Test in the Spirit of Friedman and Schwartz
- Monetary factors in the great depression
- Forecasting the Depression: Harvard versus Yale
- Prices During the Great Depression: Was the Deflation of 1930-1932 Really Unanticipated?
- 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.