CALL FOR PAPERS "Financial History - Reflection on the Past to Tackle Today's key Finance Questions" Workshop for young scholars with Prof. Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley) on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Institute for Banking and Financial History (IBF) jointly organized with the Research Center SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt 16th... Continue Reading →
CFP: Workshop on Monetary and Financial History, 6-8 May, 2019 Washington, DC
Scholars are invited to submit proposals to a workshop on Workshop on Monetary and Financial History (https://www.federalreserve.gov/conferences/monetary-financial-history-workshop-2019.htm) that will be hosted at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on May 6-8, 2019. This workshop will be a chance for researchers at academic, policy, and professional institutions to meet and discuss topics drawn from... Continue Reading →
CFP: Special Issue on the South Sea Bubble, Mississippi Bubble, and Financial Revolution, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Studies Special Issue on the South Sea Bubble, Mississippi Bubble, and Financial Revolution 2020 marks the 300th anniversary of the crashing of the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles, investment schemes – based on slavery, colonialism, and the need to fund standing militaries accompanying them through large-scale public borrowing – that caused... Continue Reading →
Arnaud Orain, La Politique du merveilleux: Une autre histoire du Système de Law (1695-1795), Fayard, 2018.
Contrairement à ce que l’on a cru jusqu’ici, le « système » mis en place en France sous la régence du duc d’Orléans n’a pas été un accident provoqué par un génie solitaire, l’Écossais John Law. Il ne se résume en rien à une expérience financière qui se serait soldée par l’échec du billet de... Continue Reading →
CFP: graduate conference “The Development of Financial Centres in Europe, 1300-1700” – 27 September 2018, Cambridge, UK; deadline: 12 August 2018
Applications from graduate students are invited for the upcoming conference "The Development of Financial Centres in Europe, 1300-1700”, to be held on 27 September 2018 in Queens' College, Cambridge. The conference aims to bring together young scholars to reflect on state-of-art scholarship on late-medieval and early modern financial centres and explore new hypotheses on their characters, inner dynamics... Continue Reading →
Vacancy for Postdoctoral Researcher in Financial History at Queen’s University Belfast; Application closing date 20/07/2018
For its participation in the Horizon 2020 EURHISFIRM project Queen's University Belfast is seeking a full-time postdoctoral researcher in the area of Financial History. EURHISFIRM is a consortium of eleven research institutions from seven European countries and is financed by the European Commission’s Infrastructure Development Program of Horizon 2020. Its aim is to develop world-class research infrastructure (https://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=home).... Continue Reading →
CFP: EURHISTOCK Workshop, Paris, December 14, 2018; deadline: July 22, 2018
The Paris School of Economics and the European Business School are pleased to announce the 8th edition of the EURHISTOCK Workshop, taking place in Paris, on December 14th. Scholars are invited to submit their proposals before July 22th. The CfP as well as the submission guidelines are available here. The day before, December 13th, the... Continue Reading →
Workshop ‘Frontiers in Financial History’, Rotterdam Jun 19th
The University of Bonn along with the Erasmus School of Economics and the European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) would like to invite you to their co-organized Workshop "Frontiers in Financial History" which will take place on June, 19, 2018 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. We look forward to seeing you at the event. If... Continue Reading →
CFP: Bank-Industry versus Stock Market-Industry Relationships: A Business History Approach
Business History Call for Papers: Special Issue Extended Deadline: 31 May 2018 http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/bes/fbsh-bank-vs-stock-market-industry/ Bank-Industry versus Stock Market-Industry Relationships: A Business History Approach During the Golden Age of the western economies (1950s-1960s) became clear that each country had to follow its own way to industrialization. For the full understanding of these processes, there was a growing... Continue Reading →
Seminar | Alden Gordon on The French Financial Crisis in the late Reign of Louis XV and its impact on Royal Manufactures and Royal Patronage, The Wallace Collection, London, 26 February 2018
Seminars in the History of Collecting "Heureux ceux qui ont un coeur de bronze..." The French Financial Crisis in the late Reign of Louis XV and its impact on Royal Manufactures and Royal Patronage Professor Alden Gordon Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Fine Art, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Monday, 26 February 2018,... Continue Reading →
Article: Alexander Opitz,:”‘Comrades, Let’s March!’. The Revolution of 1905 and its impact on financial markets” European Review of Economic History, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 February 2018,
European Review of Economic History, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 February 2018, Pages 28–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hex015 Abstract This paper examines the impact of the Revolution of 1905 on contemporary capital markets by applying an event study on Russian sovereign bonds. The landmark in Russian history comprised violent protests, resulting in the introduction of a parliament and... Continue Reading →
