This is the second conference in a new series launched by the Institute of Economic History at Humboldt University on quantitative economic and social history. This workshop, to take place annually, continues and revives forty years of tradition of Wolfram Fischer’s seminar series at the Free...

The organizers invite submission of empirical and theoretical papers on venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurship, the decision to go public, and intellectual property rights. Suitable topics include (but are not limited to): • The choice between alternative sources of financing for...

"Portugal, Europe and the Mediterranean: economies and societies in historical perspective" is the main subject of this meeting. Sevket Pamuk (from the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogaziçi University) will be our Key Note speaker on Turkey and the Mediterranean in the Early...

The goal of this conference is to bring international researchers together, permitting a comparative analysis of wealth and economic development, globally, in the middle ages, c. 300-c.1500. What were the foundations of medieval growth? How was growth characterized? Who forged ahead in wealth,...

Research themes: 1. A pan-European database 2. European growth from the mid-nineteenth century 3. European growth in the very long run 4. The history of European integration 5. Europe's changing position in the world [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's...

Themen und Workshop : 1. Krisenempfindung : außen- und innerbetrieblicher Informationsfluß, „Diagnose“, Unternehmen und Marktlage... 2. Rückwirkung und Erwiderung : innerbetriebliche Strategie : Geschäftsführung und Vorstand, Krise und Aktionäre, neue Sozialpolitik, Innovation,...

The theme of the 2005 conference is “The Accounting Profession in Transition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Change." Concurrent paper sessions will address both historical and public policy issues related to recent and continuing change in the accounting profession and its...

The topic of the first meeting will be “International Financial Integration: The Role of Intermediaries”. Its goal is to review the historical role of financial intermediaries in shaping the patterns of financial globalization. There are no time bounds. Priority will be given to bringing...

The 2005 Australian Conference of Economists will be held at the University of Melbourne from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2005. Confirmed speakers include: Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Alison Booth (ANU), Roger Craine (Berkeley), David Fielding (Otago), James Galbraith (Texas), Simon...

1. The growth of the intra-European trade (towards, from or through Spain) and how it undermined the agrarian and industrial output continental-wide, the allocation of resources and the levels of welfare and consumption of the Spanish population in the Early Modern times. 2. The capital and...