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This graduate seminar is open to the public.
However, only graduate students in Economics (or, with instructor's
permission, in other departments) should sign up for the seminar for
credits.
The design of the seminar: each week, a scholar presents work in progress.
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25 August
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Organizational Meeting
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1 September
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Labor Day Holiday
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No meeting
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8 September
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Marc Flandreau
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Economics, Sciences-Po, Paris
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"The Making of Global Finance 1880-1913"
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15 September
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EHA in Nashville
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No meeting
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22 September
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Emmanuel Saez
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Economics, UC Berkeley
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Wojciech Kopczuk
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Columbia University
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"Top Wealth Shares in the United States, 1916-2000: Evidence from Estate Tax
Returns"
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29 September
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Trevon Logan
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Economics, UC Berkeley
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"The Transformation of Hunger: Nutritional Well-Being and the Evolving
Demand for Calories"
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6 October
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David Jacks
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Economics, UC Davis
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"What Drove 19th
Century Market Integration?"
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13 October
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Muge Adalet
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Economics, UC Berkeley
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"Fundamentals, Capital Flows and Capital Flight: The German Banking
Crisis of 1931"
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20 October
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Caroline Fohlin
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Economics, Johns Hopkins University
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"Families, Groups, and Pyramids:
Long-Run Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control in Germany"
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27 October
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Carol Shiue
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Economics, University of Texas
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"Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution"
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3 November
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Rick Steckel
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Economics, Ohio State University
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"Measuring Social Performance over the Millennia: The Long-Term Decline in
Health in Pre-Columbian America"
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10 November
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Bishnupriya Gupta
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Economics, University of Warwick
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"The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in
Europe and Asia, 1500-1800"
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17 November
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Kris Mitchener
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Economics, Santa Clara University
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"Empire, Public Goods and the Roosevelt Corollary"
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24 November
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Canceled
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No meeting
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1 December
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Edward Miguel
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Economics, UC Berkeley
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Halvor Mehlum
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Economics, Columbia University
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Ragnar Torvik
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Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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"Rainfall, Poverty, and Crime in 19th Century Germany"
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