Topic: International capital flows and their consequences for policy making.

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

We have decided to postpone the "Third European Macrohistory Workshop", the new dates will be announced shortly.

DUE TO COVID-19, THE ABH 2020 CONFERENCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PLEASE CHECK THIS WEBSITE FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

This workshop will be an opportunity for researchers at academic, policy, and professional institutions to meet and discuss topics drawn from historical experience that not only help us understand the past but which frequently offer lessons and insights for today. Proposals on any topic related...

Workshop schedule: - Monetizing the Economy: National Banks and Local Liquidity Creation; - Flight-to-safety and the Real Effect of Banking Crises. Evidence from theFrench Great Depression; - From Finance to Fascism: The Real Effect of Germany’s 1931 BankingCrisis; - Does Credit Affect Stock...

This workshop is aimed at minting and financial institutions’ archivists, money museum curators and researchers. The extensive archives of mints are a treasure-trove of information often covering extended periods of time. Yet some of these archival treasures are only accessible to a handful of...

This workshop will be a chance for researchers at academic, policy, and professional institutions to meet and discuss topics drawn from historical experience that not only help us understand the past but which frequently offer lessons and insights for today. Professor William Goetzmann from the...

Economic historians have recently made much progress in reconstructing historical national accounts and quantifying other economic variables for the last millennium. This work has implications for the stylised facts that growth economists seek to explain in their analysis. At the same time, it...

Main topic: Debt Sustainability. The workshop aims to bring together economic historians and macroeconomists. Half of the sessions will be devoted to general topics at the intersection of macroeconomics and economic history, while the other half will focus on debt sustainability as one of the...