The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household financial behaviour and on how this is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. Topics: - Patterns of asset...

This workshop targets applied and theoretical research on household finance and economic stability. We are particularly interested in contributions that analyze the implications of household leverage for consumption, employment, house prices both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The...

The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers in the field. Papers are being sought on topics including, but not necessarily limited to: - Macroeconomic and financial history - Economic growth in the very long run - Institutions and economic development - The history of the...

The conference theme will investigate the various mobilities and exchanges of the nineteenth century. What did it mean to be mobile (or immobile) in this period? How were political, scientific, and cultural ideas exchanged in new ways? How did people maintain and create new networks and...

Inviting papers and panels that consider how the nineteenth century represented itself to itself – through depictions of subjectivity, history, and culture; through emerging technologies and disciplines; through self-conscious "meta" attempts to understand methods of representation. Also...

How did the nineteenth century conceive, construct, and represent the physical world? In what ways did nature as an ideology and/or material reality shape the nineteenth century? How did the nineteenth century understand the relation of human beings to nature? The 2011 Interdisciplinary...

Within the general fields of economic growth and economic history, we are looking for papers dealing with, among others, the following topics: - The transition from stagnation to growth - The Great Divergence - Geography versus institutions - International trade and growth - Technical progress...