6th European Macrohistory Conference on "The macroeconomics of (de-)globalization"
The Center for Advanced Studies: Finance and Inequality (CASFI) is pleased to host the 6th European Macrohistory Conference on "The macroeconomics of (de-)globalization" to be held on September 24-25, 2026.
We are delighted that Kevin O’Rourke (Sciences Po, Paris) has agreed to deliver the keynote lecture.
CASFI is organizing this conference in cooperation with Rui Estevez (Geneva Graduate Institute), Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics), Matthias Morys (University of York) and Kirsten Wandschneider (Goethe University Frankfurt). In addition to support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the conference is funded by the Foundation for International Dialogue of the Savings Bank in Bonn and the Zentrum für die historischen Grundlagen der Gegenwart (ZHGG).
Date
Thursday, September 24, 2026 starts 12:30 pm, ends 6:00 pm
Friday, September 25, 2026
starts 9:00 am, ends 4:00 pm
Agenda
12:30 – 13:00
Welcome: Coffee & Sandwiches
13:00 – 15:00
Session 1 - Chair: Carsten Burhop (University of Bonn)
- Guillaume Daudin (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL): Ties that trade: Trade blocs over two centuries (1830-2020)
Discussant: Ulrich Pfister (University of Münster) - Erik Bengtsson (Lund University): The European grain invasion and the Swedish economy
Discussant: Erik Hornung (University of Cologne) - Kris James Mitchener (Santa Clara University): The price of protection: Tariff incidence and import collapse under the infamous Smoot Hawley tariff
Discussant: Felix Selgert (University of Bonn)
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 16:50
Session 2 - Kirsten Wandschneider (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Ana Laura Catélen (National University of Mar del Plata): Distributive conflict, economic policy, and macroeconomic volatility in Argentina, 1890-2020
Discussant: Luis Calderon (University of Bonn) - Rebecca Stuart (University of Neuchâtel): U.S. Inflation persistence since 1784: Perhaps some things never change
Discussant: Benjamin Born (University of Bonn)
16:50 – 17:00
Short break
17:00 – 18:00
Keynote lecture by Professor Kevin O’Rourke (Sciences Po Paris): From MFN to ‘Reciprocal Tariffs’: non-discrimination in historical perspective
18:00 – 19:00
Check-in time Hotel
19:00
Conference Dinner
9:00 – 10:20
Session 3 - Chair: Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute)
- Victor Degorce (Princeton University): Exchange control and the segmentation of international currency markets
Discussant: Matthias Morys (University of York) - Youssef Ghallada (London School of Economics and Political Science): Foreign banks’ competition in Asia in the age of imperialism. A network analysis
Discussant: Mintra Dwarkasing (University of Bonn)
10:20 – 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 – 12:00
Session 4 - Chair: Matthias Morys (University of York)
- Dror Goldberg (The Open University of Israel): Saving Bretton Woods. Johnson, Tet, and the Federal Reserve Act
Discussant: Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics) - Tobias Scheib (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Bretton Woods, Keynesianism, and the origins of Germany’s fiscal restraint
Discussant: Jürgen von Hagen (University of Bonn)
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch break
13:00 – 14:20
Session 5 - Chair: Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics)
- Aristeidis Grivokostopoulos (London School of Economics and Political Science): Sovereign debt seniority and the reintegration of peripheral borrowers: Evidence from international financial supervision in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Greece 1870-1914
Discussant: Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute) - Wouter Ryckbosch (Ghent University): Who owned the Empire? The distribution of colonial securities in Amsterdam and Brussels, 1900s – 1920s
Discussant: Bram van der Graaf (University of Bonn)
14:20 – 14:30
Short break
14:30 – 15:50
Session 6 - Chair: Carsten Burhop (University of Bonn)
- Marco Cokic (London School of Economics and Political Science): Picking winners? Trade and investment policy in socialist Eastern Europe
Discussant: Clemens Jobst (University of Vienna) - Gregori Galofre-Vila (Universitat de València): From sail to steam
Discussant: Kirsten Wandschneider (Goethe University Frankfurt)
15:50 – 16:00
Farewell
16:00 – 16:30
Meeting of the Scientific Committee
