Financial Markets, Institutions and Asset Prices During the First Era of Globalization, 5th June 2008
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The workshop on Financial Markets, Institutions and Asset Prices During the First Era of Globalization is scheduled to be held on 5th June 2008, at Oxford in the United Kingdom. The workshop will be held at St. Anthony’s College in Oxford. The last date for sending research paers to be presntd at the workshop was 30th November 2007. The papers were to be sent to Martin T. Bohl.
The objective of the confrence was to study and discuss the effect the early years of globalization on asset price behaviour, financial markets and different institutional bodies in the long run. The focal point was discusion in this workshop would be the existing and future scenario in the financial markets that is caused by the long term effects of the early days of civilization.
The program schedule for the workshop is –
Opening Session
8:30 – 9:00 – Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:10 – Welcome address by Kalypso Nicolaïdis, University of Oxford
1st Session – Stock Markets
Chaired by Knick Harley, University of Oxford
9:10 – 10:00 – Rule Britannia! British Stock Market Returns, 1825 – 1870 – by John D. Turner, Queen’s University Belfast
10:00 – 10:50 The Rise of the American Over-the-Counter Markets, 1876 – 1924 – by J. Peter Ferderer, Macalester College University
Coffee Break – 10:50 – 11:10
11:10 – 12:00 – Dividend Policies in an Unregulated Market: The London Stock Exchange – by Fabio Braggion and Lyndon Moore, Victoria University of Wellington and University of Tilburg
12:00 – 12:50 – Investor’s Behaviour on the German Stock Market During the Period of Great Disorder, 1919-1926 – by Martin T. Bohl, Carsten Burhop and Pierre L. Siklos, Westfälische Wilhelm-University Münster and Wilfrid Laurier University
Lunch – 12:50 – 14:00
2nd Session – Banking and International Issues
Chaired by Pierre L. Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University
14:00 – 14:50 – Erosion of Barriers to Entry in the Banking Industry: Evidence from the Impact of the Emerging Markets on the Swiss Banking Structure 1850 – 1950 – by Andreas-Walter Mattig, University St. Gallen
14:50 – 15:40 – Who’s Afraid of Universal Banks? Bank Affiliations and Corporate Dividend Policy in Pre-World I Belgium – by Marc Deloof, University of Antwerp
Coffee Break – 15:40 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:50 – International Risk Sharing Across the Twentieth Century: The Mystery Deepens – by David Jacks and Christopher M. Meissner, Simon Fraser University, UC Davis and NBER
16:50 – 17:40 Between Imperialism and Capitalism: European Capital Exports Before 1914 – by Rui Pedro Esteves, Simon Fraser University
17:40 – 18:30 – Black Man’s Burden: Measured Philanlthropy Within the BritishEmpire, 1880 – 1914 – by Marc Flandreau, Chaire Finances Internationales Sciences Po,and CEPR
Dinner – 20:00
The workshop is scheduled to have each session of fifty minutes of which the presentation would be of 40 minutes and audience discussion of 10 minutes.
