8th Eurhistock Conference School of Economics 48 Boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris

9.00: Arrival and coffee 9.20: Welcome – Angelo Riva, European and Paris School of Economics 9.30: An early securities market in full swing: New data on Amsterdam securities trading in the eighteenth century Joost Jonker, University of Amsterdam and IISH (with Christiaan Von Bochove and Oscar Gelderblom) Discussant: Michael Buchner, Saarland University 10.00: Playing the rules of the game. Counterparty risk at the Berlin Bourse, ca. 1860-1914 Michael Buchner, Saarland University Discussant: Joost Jonker, University of Amsterdam and IISH 10.30: Finance and Growth: Did French Stock Markets Support Firms of the 2nd Industrial Revolution? Emilie Bonhoure, Toulouse 1 Capitole and (with David Le Bris) Discussant: Miguel Artola Blanco, Universidad Carlos III Madrid 11.00: coffee break 11.30: Microstructure and performance of stock exchange markets: the Lisbon Stock Exchange, 1837-1913 Rita Martins de Sousa, (with Amélia Branco and Pedro Neves) Discussant: Bert S. Kramer, University of Groningen 12.00: What are the effects of the introduction of corporate taxes in Nazi-occupied Netherlands? Bert S. Kramer, University of Groningen (with Philip T. Fliers and Abe de Jong) Discussant: Rita Martins de Sousa, University of Lisbon 12.30 lunch

14.30: Bank stocks and the Great Depression Bryan Taylor II, Global Financial Data (with Gustavo Cortes and Marc Weidenmier) Discussant: Raphaël Hekimian, ISG Business School and Paris School of Economics 15.00: Equity investment in an age of turbulence: Spain, 1900-1987 Miguel Artola Blanco, Universidad Carlos III Madrid (with Stefano Battilossi and Stefan O. Houpt) Discussant: Bryan Taylor II, Global Financial Data 15.30 coffee break 16.00: The Big Bang: Stock Market Capitalization in the Long Run Dmitry Kuvshinov, University of Bonn (with Kaspar Zimmermann) Discussant: Leentje Moortgat, University of Antwerp 16.30: Stubborn dividends: 180 years of evidence from Belgium Leentje Moortgat, University of Antwerp (with Jan Annaert and Marc Deloof) Discussant: Dmitry Kuvshinov, University of Bonn