FIGUEROLA INSTITUTE ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2025
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
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 ​
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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
