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FIGUEROLA INSTITUTE ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2025

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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

02-03 Oct 2025
Room 14.0.11
Organized by Jordi Domènech, Víctor Gómez-Blanco, Laura Maravall

Thursday 2 October


9:15-9:45 WELCOME + COFFEE

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9:45-12:00 SESSION 1: Macroeconomics

9:45-10:30

Change to Remain: Quantifying the Switch in Francoist Monetary Policy

Nicolás Varela (UC3M)

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10:30-11:15

Building The Spanish Imperial Trade Bloc

Alejandro Ayuso-Díaz (UPNA) & Pablo Delgado-Perea (Universidad de Zaragoza) & Antonio Tena-Junguito (UC3M)

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11:15-12:00

Regional growth during the ISI period in Argentina

Esteban Nicolini (UC3M) & Mauricio Talassino (UNT)

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12:00-12:30 BREAK

 

12:30-14:00 SESSION 2: Demography

12:30-13:15

Who escaped from conflict? Explaining Spanish Republican exile to Mexico

Carlos Santiago (UC3M) & Blanca Sánchez Alonso (Universidad San Pablo CEU)

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13:15-14:00

Miracle in Early Francoism? Early Childhood Mortality, 1939–1959

Víctor M. Gómez-Blanco (UAH) & Enrique Llopis (UCM)

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14:00-15:30 LUNCH

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15:30-17:00 SESSION 3: Agriculture

15:30-16:15

Inside the Property Rights Black Box: The Political Economy of the Rural Land Registry (Spain, 1845–1932)

Juan Carmona Pidal (UC3M) & Joan R. Rosés (LSE)

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16:15-17:00

Colonial Viticulture and Demographic Change in Eastern Algeria (c. 1900–1950) 

Laura Maravall (UAH) & Sergi Basco (UB) & Jordi Domènech (UC3M)

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Friday 3 October â€‹

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9:30-10:00 COFFEE

 

10:00-11:30 SESSION 4: Political Economy

10:00-10:45

Class Hatred, Revenge, or War Logic? Explaining Extrajudicial Executions during the Spanish Civil War

Jordi Domènech (UC3M)

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10:45-11:30

Selection into Revolution and Terrorism: Drivers of Radicalization in the Russian Empire

Julia Zimmerman (UC3M)Gerda Asmus-Bluhm (University of Hohenheim), Andrei Markevich (University of Helsinki & New Economic School), Marvin Suesse (Trinity College Dublin)

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11.30-11:45 BREAK

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11:45-13:15 SESSION 5: Inequality & Growth

11:45-12:30

A century of income inequality in Uruguay, 1870-1970. A social tables approach 

Henry Willebald (Universidad de la República) & Pablo Marmissolle (Universidad de la República)

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12:30-13:15

Disentangling the puzzle of Brazilian GDP since 1820

Luis Bértola (Universidad de la República)

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13:30 FAREWELL LUNCH 

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