Annual Conference

THE ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY Annual Conference University of Exeter 30 March – 1 April 2007 Programme including New Researchers’ Papers & Abstracts of the other Academic Papers Contents Page no. Contents i Welcome to the University of Exeter vi Summary conference programme vii Brief guide to conference arrangements ix How to reach the University of Exeter xi Campus Plan xiii NEW RESEARCHERS’ SESSION I I/A HUMAN CAPITAL 1 Martina G Viarengo An historical analysis of the change in compulsory schooling laws in Europe after the Second World War 1 2 Bas van Leeuwen Lucas versus Romer: human capital and economic growth in Asia 1890–2000 6 3 Jeroen van Bockel Are we being served? Personalized public service in the Dutch Republic 13 4 Francesco Cinnirella Optimists and pessimists: a revision of the nutritional status in Britain (18th-19th centuries) 19 I/B LAND 1 Matthew Clark Manorial courts and management of the land in early Stuart England 27 2 Steven Nafziger Land redistributions and the Russian peasant commune in the nineteenth century 33 3 Sarah Webster Professional networks and the Egremont Estates, 1796- 1805 39 4 Jonas Lindström Peasant reproduction: mobility, household formation and socioeconomic status in early modern Sweden 45 I/C BUSINESS 1 Thorsten Lübbers Risk and return effects of collusive arrangements: the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate, 1893-1913 51 2 Helen Doe Sowing the seeds of decline: the Thames merchant shipbuilding yards in the Napoleonic Wars 56 3 Hiroshi Shimizu Competition and technological change in semiconductor lasers, 1960-90 62 4 Eugénie Briot Fashion sprayed and displayed: the market for perfumery in nineteenth-century Paris 69 I/D OVERSEAS EXPANSION 1 Mika Suonpää Cultural differences and overseas expansion: British enterprise and attitudes to Balkan Slavs as business partners, 1878-1914 73 2 Cláudia Rei The organization of merchant empires: a case study of Portugal and England 79 3 Kate Hamblin Challenging the Old Order: exploring the rise of the engineer in commercial shipping in Britain, Germany and France since 1830 84 NEW RESEARCHERS’ SESSION II II/A FINANCE 1 Pilar Nogués Marco Why did London become the main money market? Monetary policy, arbitrage and European money market integration in the eighteenth century 91 2 Camila Vam Malle East India Bonds, 1718-63: early exotic derivatives 102 & Pilar Nogués Marco 3 Mark Dincecco Fiscal centralization, limited government and public i Contents finances in Europe, 1650-1914 110 II/B MONEY AND BANKING 1 Marc Badia-Miró et al. The emergence of a social investment network around an issuing bank: Barcelona 1844-56 113 2 Pooyan Amir Ahmadi Monetary policy during the Great Depression: a Bayesian FAVAR approach 119 3 Javier Pueyo Collusion, regulation and rivalry in Spanish banking during the Franco regime 124 II/C MARKET EFFICIENCY 1 Aashish Velkar Market transparency, uniform measurements and standardized quantities: institutional change in nineteenth century Britain 130 2 Roman Studer India and the Great Divergence: assessing the efficiency of grain markets in eighteenth and nineteenth century India 137 3 Frank Oberholzner Integrating natural hazards into economic history: institutional economics and the development of German crop insurance 145 II/D TRADE 1 Markus Lampe Causes and effects of international trade regimes: the Cobden-Chevalier network, c.1860-77 150 2 Andrew Morris The second age of steel: defining the era of alloy steels, 1858-1914 156 3 Paul Sharp On the origins of the Atlantic Economy: five stylized facts about the American grain invasion of Britain, 1829- 1929 161 II/E POLITICAL ECONOMY 1 Helen Yaffe Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: a rebel against Soviet Political Economy 169 2 Gareth Jenkins The Conservative approach to religious sectarianism in Liverpool and Belfast, 1880-1921 174 ACADEMIC SESSION I I/A ORIGINS OF THE WELFARE STATE 1 Peter Hennock The origins of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: social policies compared 181 I/B EARLY MODERN TEXTILES 1 Jane Whittle Purchasing textiles and constructing clothing in early seventeenth-century England: a consumers’ viewpoint 183 2 Giorgio Riello The extension of the market for cotton textiles in early modern Eurasia 184 3 Craig Muldrew ‘Th’ ancient distaff’ and whirling spindle’: measuring the contribution of spinning to household earnings and the national economy in England 1550-1770 186 I/C NEW SHARE ISSUES AND CORPORATE LAW 1 David Chambers New issues, new industries and firm survival in interwar 187 Britain 2 Carsten Burhop Financial development and corporate law: historical evidence from the German IPO market, 1870-96 187 3 Gerben Bakker The emergence of rights-based multinationals: sunk costs, property rights and the political economy of globalization, 1945-2000 188 I/D MONEY AND MICROCREDIT ii Contents 1 Montserrat Carbonell Microfinancial institutions and the periphery of financial systems in Spain in the nineteenth century 190 2 George Selgin Monopoly, competition, and Great Britain’s ‘big problem of small change’ 190 3 David Humphrey The development of the goldsmithing trade in late medieval Northern Europe 191 I/E BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AND REGULATION 1 Mark Casson The regulation of the Victorian railway system 193 2 Dan Bogart Private ownership and the development of transport systems: cross-country evidence from the diffusion of railroads in the nineteenth century 193 3 Jesús Mirás Araujo et al. Water management regulations in Spain: EMALCSA, and the city of La Coruña’s water supply, 1975-2004 195 ACADEMIC SESSION II II/A INVENTION IN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 1 Robert C Allen Economics, science, and the British industrial revolution 197 2 B Zorina Khan The evolution of useful knowledge: great inventors, science and technology in British economic development, 1750-1930 197 3 Andrew P Morris From the Courts to Congress: the evolution of Patent Law, & Craig A Nard 1790-1952 198 II/B LONDON APPRENTICESHIP 1 Alysa Levene Pauper apprenticeship, the industrial economy, and the old Poor Law in London 199 2 Katrina Honeyman The London parish apprentice and the early industrial labour market 199 3 Jeremy Boulton Parish apprenticeship in eighteenth century and early & Leonard Schwarz nineteenth-century London 200 II/C CURRENCY REGIMES 1 Lars Boerner Currency unions, optimal currency areas and the & Oliver Volckart integration of financial markets: Central Europe from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries 201 2 Matthias Morys The emergence of the Classical Gold Standard 201 3 Dror Goldberg Why did Massachusetts invent modern currency? 202 II/D PUBLIC FINANCE AND BALANCE OF PAYMENTS 1 Herman de Jong et al. Ports, plagues and politics: the development of cities in Italy, 1300-1861 204 2 Masato Shizume Sustainability of public debt: evidence from pre-World War II Japan 205 3 Valerio Cerretano The Bank of England, the Treasury and Britain’s postwar industrial reconstruction: the ‘Securities Trust’, 1921- 27 206 II/E CONTROL IN THE DICTATORSHIPS 1 Oxana Klimkova Corruption in the GULAG: the case of the White-Sea Baltic combine and the camp of the NKVD 209 2 Germà Bel Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany 209 3 Andrei Markevich The dictator’s dilemma: to punish or to assist? Control Party Commission under Stalin 211 II/F POSTWAR ECONOMIC POLICY 1 Jim Tomlinson Balanced accounts? Constructing the balance of payments ‘problem’ in postwar Britain 212 iii Contents 2 Glen O’Hara Numbers, experts and ideas: international organizations, international surveys and perceptions of the outside world in Britain, c.1950-70 212 3 Michael J Oliver UK economic policy in the 1960s and 1970s and the & Hugh Pemberton challenge to learning 213 4 Jeroen Touwen Paradigmatic changes in the Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand: from Keynesianism to the market, 1975- 90 213 ACADEMIC SESSION III III/A WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL COURTS 1 Christopher Briggs Women, debt, and the law of manor courts to 1350 215 2 Matthew Stevens Small town women and the great famine of 1315-22 215 3 Erin McGibbon Smith Female involvement in crime and misbehaviour in the manor court of Sutton-in-the-Isle, 1308-91 216 III/B EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RISK MANAGEMENT 1 Helen Paul Risks and overseas trade: the way in which risks were perceived and managed in the early modern period 217 2 Natasha Glaisyer ‘Lost, burnt or otherwise destroyed’: who bought eighteenth-century lottery tickets? 218 3 Anne Laurence Portfolio management and risk at the time of the South Sea Bubble: the case of Hoare’s Bank customers 219 III/C CONSUMERS 1 Julie Marfany Consumer revolution or industrious revolution? Consumption patterns in eighteenth-century Catalonia 220 2 Joanne Bailey The bed as an icon of early modern household 220 & Angela McShane-Jones 3 Peter Scott The determinants of productivity and growth for British & James Walker department stores in the 1930s 221 III/D INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE 1 C Knick Harley Cotton textiles and the industrial revolution: competing models and evidence of prices and profits 224 2 Guillaume Daudin Domestic trade and regional markets in late eighteenth 224 century France 3 Alessandro Nuvolari Technical choice, innovation and British steam & Bart Verspagen engineering, c.1800-50 226 III/E FERTILITY AND LABOUR SUPPLY 1 Enriqueta Camps Poverty and children’s work in nineteenth and twentieth- century Spain and currently developing countries: first results 228 2 Jordi Domenech Hours of work and wages in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England and Wales: another look at urban labour market integration 228 ACADEMIC SESSION IV IV/A AGRICULTURE 1 Ingrid Peters-Fransen Mennonites in West Prussia, 1776-89: economic status, occupation, and landholding 231 2 Juan Carmona Why sharecropping? Explaining its presence and absence & James Simpson in Europe’s vineyards, 1750-1950 232 3 Nick Hanley et al. The effects of agriculture on biodiversity, 1600-2000 233 IV/B HEALTH AND FERTILITY 1 Sara Horrell et al.

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