Friday May 1, 2015
1:00-3:00pm
Chair: JOSEPH G. MANNING (Yale University)
Discussant: FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO (Yale University)
PHILLIP I. ACKERMAN-LIEBERMAN (Vanderbilt University)
Balancing One's Obligations Between God and Mammon: Law and Mercantile Practice Among the Geniza Merchants
BRUCE S. HALL (Duke University)
Salt, Slavery, and Credit in the Functioning of Saharan Commerce
3:30-5:30pm
Chair: ERIC HILT (Yale University and Wellesley University)
Discussant: CHRISTOPHER UDRY (Yale University)
CIHAN ARTUNÇ (University of Arizona)
Firm Organization in Egypt between 1910 and 1949: Evidence from the Mixed Courts
MADELEINE ZELIN (Columbia University)
Local Knowledge: Explorations in China's Encounter with the Modem Company
Saturday May 2, 2015
9:30-12:00pm
Chair: JOSÉ ANTONIO ESPÍN-SÁNCHEZ (Yale University)
Discussant: NAOMI LAMOREAUX (Yale University)
LUTZ KAELBER (University of Vermont)
Financing Business: Max Weber on Equity and Debt in Medieval Partnerships
YADIRA GONZALEZ DE LARA (University of Valencia)
The Impact of Formal Monitoring on Financial Development: From Debt to Equity in Late Medieval Venice
NADIA MATRINGE (CNRS-Paris)
Credit Reallocation & the Financing of International Trade: Deposit Banking in Sixteenth-Century Lyons
1:00-3:30pm
Chair: TIMOTHY GUINANNE (Yale University)
Discussant: PHILIP HOFFMAN (Caltech)
BRAM VAN HOFSTRAETEN (Maastricht University)
Opting for Private Partnerships in Early Modem Antwerp (1480-1620)
JOOST JONKER (Utrecht University) and Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht University)
Direct Finance in the Dutch Golden Age
JESSICA HANSER (Yale-NUS)
The Canton Debts Crisis, 1779-81
The conference is free and open to the public, but please register online.
With the generous support of the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the European Studies Council, the Program in Economic History at Yale, the Whitney Humanities Center, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).