Trade and Development

A Mini-Conference Sponsored by the Center for Economic History, the von Gremp Seminar in Entrepreneurial and Economic History, and the Ziman Center

Where: Public Affairs 4240

When: Friday, March 1st, 2013, 8:45-3:30

Schedule

8:45 am Continental Breakfast

9:10 am Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto), International Trade and Institutional Change: Medieval Venice’s Response to Globalization

10:10 am Break

10:30 am Daniel Bogart (UC Irvine), The Politics of Development in the Aftermath of Britain’s Glorious Revolution

11:30 am Lunch

1:00 pm Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA), Trade and Development: Evidence from Argentina’s Belle Epoque

2:00 Break

2:20 Nathan Nunn (Harvard), An Overview of the Ancestral Characteristics Database

3:20 adjourn

3:30 coffee with graduate students

Papers

Papers will be available at the von Gremp seminar web site