Financial and Economic History Workshop
Co-organised by CEREC (UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) and CEBRIG (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
Address : Bd du Jardin Botanique 43, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique
FRIDAY 24th NOVEMBER 2023
Salle des examens – UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles – 43, bd du Jardin Botanique
13.30-13.45: Registration/Welcome Coffee
13:45-14.00: Opening Speech (Alexandre Girard – Kim Oosterlinck)
14.00-15.30 : Afternoon Session I (Chaired by Kim Oosterlinck)
14.00-14.45: Paper 1 – Lacroix, Jean (UniversitĂ© Paris-Saclay) – Domino Secessions : Evidence from the U.S. (Jean Lacroix, Kris James Mitchener & Kim Oosterlinck)
14.45-15.30: Paper 2 – Esteves, Rui (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva) – Missing Markets: Market Microstructure and Market Failure on the 19th Century London Stock Exchange (Rui Esteves and Gabriel Geisler Mesevage)
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.30: Afternoon Session II (Chaired by Alexandre Girard)
16.00-16.45: Paper 3 – Ghallada, Youssef (UCLouvain Saint-Louis –Bruxelles and UniversitĂ© Libre de Bruxelles) – Pound for Pound: the Sterling bill market in the first wave of globalisation.
16.45-17.30: Paper 4 – Accominotti, Olivier (London School of Economics and Political Science) – The Making of Safe Assets: London acceptance houses and the intermediation of bills of exchange, 1880-1914 (Olivier Accominotti, Aurelius Noble, and Stefano Ugolini)
17.30-18.45: Keynote Closure Friday Session Speech (Marc Flandreau, Universty of Pennsylvania)
conference dinner on invitation
SATURDAY 25th NOVEMBER
Salle P02 – UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles – 119 rue du marais
8.30-9.00: Welcome Coffee
9.00-11.15: Morning Session I (Chaired by Rui Esteves)
09.00-9.45: Paper 5 – Ugolini, Stefano (Science Po Toulouse) – Fiscal Dominance, Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates: Lessons from Early-Modern Venice (Donato Masciandaro, Davide Romelliand, Stefano Ugolini)
09.45-10.30: Paper 6 – Deloof, Marc (University of Antwerp) – Belgian Financial Elites and Destructive Entrepreneurship in King Leopold’s Congo Free State
10.30-11.15: Paper 7 – Verdickt, Gertjan (KU Leuven) – Banking on Innovation: Listed and Non-listed Equity Investing, Evidence from SociĂ©tĂ© GĂ©nĂ©rale de Belgique, 1850-1934​
11.15-11.30: Closing Conference Speech
12.00-13.30 : lunch