FIGUEROLA INSTITUTE ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2023

Thursday 8 June

10:00-10:30 WELCOME + COFFEE

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10:30-12:00 SESSION 1: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

10:30-11:15 

Agglomeration economies and the evolution of local population in Argentina, 1895-2010

Esteban Nicolini (with Valentina Fuentes)

11:15-12:00

Closing the price gap - Von Thünen applied to wheat markets in 18th century Spain 

Carlos Santiago (with Alexandra Cermeño)

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12:00-12:15 MINI BREAK

12:15-13:45 SESSION 2: LANGUAGE AND NATION BUILDING

12:15-13:00

State capacity and the uneven cost of nation building: language mismatch and literacy levels in Valencia

Alfonso Diez (with Francisco Beltrán; Alicia Gomez; Julio Martinez and Daniel A. Tirado)

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13:00-13:45

The possibility of a transnational civil society during the Cold War. The case of the Esperanto movement

Roberto Garvia 

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13:45-15:00 LUNCH

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15:00-17:15 SESSION 3: FINANCE​

15:00-15:45

The geography of formal rural credit market during the Spanish modernization

Juan Carmona and Joan Roses 

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15:45-16:30

Regulation is good but not enough: The historical origins of banking supervision in Spain, 1850-1936

Ximo Cuevas and Maria A. Pons

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16:30-17:15

Firms, Investors and Political Risk in a Regime Transition: Spain 1930-1936

Stefan Houpt and Stefano Battilossi​

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Friday 9 June

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9:30-10:00 COFFEE

10:00-11:30 SESSION 4: TRADE POLICIES

10:00-10:45

Beyond geography: British market hegemony in colonial Southeast Asia and its rivals’ reactions (1874-1913).

Alejandro Ayuso and Antonio Tena 

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10:45-11:30

Unexpected Side Effects of Trade Policy: Integration in the Spanish Wheat Market, 1725-1905

Victor Gómez and Enrique Llopis

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11.30-11:45 MINI BREAK

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11:45-13:15 SESSION 5: LABOUR AND LIVING STANDARDS

11:45-12:30

From Mines to Minds: Education in Zambia's Mining Regions from 1920 to 1990

Dácil Juif and Laura Maravall

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12:30-13:15

A labour of freedom: ‘free wombs’ and slave emancipation in postcolonial Uruguay

Emiliano Travieso

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13:30 FAREWELL LUNCH