Ninth ASE Annual Meeting
The Ninth ASE Annual Meeting took place on September 13-14 2024 in Turin, hosted by the Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turin, C.so Unione Sovietica 218, bis, Torino.
The Ninth ASE Annual Meeting took place on September 13-14 2024 in Turin, hosted by the Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turin, C.so Unione Sovietica 218, bis, Torino.
The Ninth ASE Keynote Lecture was given by professor Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute). During the Meeting, the first Gianni Toniolo Best Research Paper Prize, was awarded to Giulia Mancini (University of Sassari), while Johann Ohler (LSE) won the 2024 Carnevali Prize.
Programme (presenters in bold):
Note that each paper of the Parallel Sessions is allocated 35 minutes - 20 for presentation, 15 for discussant and Q&A.
Friday 13
Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (ESOMAS)
Corso Unione Sovietica 218, bis
13:30-14:15 pm Registration
Atrio monumentale
14:15-14:30 pm Welcome and Opening remarks
Aula 6
Francesco Devicenti (Turin; ESOMAS Department Director)
Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna; ASE President)
Paolo di Martino (Turin; Local Organizer)
14:30-16:15 pm ASE Economic History Workshop, Parallel Sessions 1
Session 1.A - Aula 6
Chair: Maria Carmela Schisani (Federico II)
Income distributions in motion, Italy 1861-2021
Brian A'Hearn (Oxford), Nicola Amendola, Federico Belotti (Tor Vergata), Giulia Mancini (Sassari), Giovanni Vecchi (Tor Vergata)
Discussant: Giacomo Gabbuti (Sant'Anna)
The Growth of Finance in the Long-Run
Krystian Filippo Maria Bua (Sant'Anna)
Discussant: Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Return Innovation.The Knowledge Spillovers of the British Migration to the US, 1870–1940
Davide M. Coluccia (University of Bristol), Gaia Dossi (UCL)
Discussant: Luigi Moretti (Bergamo)
Session 1.B - Aula 8
Chair: Alberto Rinaldi (Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Human capital dynamics in post-unification Italy: Young men reformed for military service between 1861 and 1930
Guido Alfani, Simone Ghislandi (Bocconi), Tommy Murphy (San Andrés), Sonia Schifano (Bocconi)
Discussant: Gabriele Cappelli (Siena)
Assessing Ancient Inequalities: Hellenistic Delos
Marco Martinez (Sant'Anna), Filippo Battistoni (Pisa)
Discussant: Michele Bolla (Cambridge)
Leaving the “Fourth Shore”: The effect of Italian farmers’ expulsions from post-colonial Libya, 1930-2005
Mattia Bertazzini (Nottingham)
Discussant: Michelangelo Vasta (Siena)
16:15-16:45 pm Tea & Coffee break
Atrio monumentale
16:45-18:30 pm ASE Economic History Workshop, Parallel Sessions 2
Session 2.A - Aula 6
Chair: Vera Negri Zamagni (Bologna)
The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
David Escamilla-Guerrero (St. Andrews), Andrea Papadia (York), Ariell Zimran (Vanderbilt)
Discussant: Dario Pellegrino (Bank of Italy)
Income Inequality in Ancient Empires: the Roman and the Han Compared
Guido Alfani (Bocconi), Michele Bolla (Cambridge)
Discussant: Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon)
Internal Migration and Local Development: Evidence from the Italian Golden Age
Paolo Croce (Bank of Italy), Matteo Filippi (Zurich), Paolo Piselli (Bank of Italy), Andrea Ramazzotti (Federico II)
Discussant: Mauro Rota (Sapienza)
Session 2.B - Aula 8
Chair: Giulia Mancini (Sassari)
Long-lasting effects of WWII-induced female labor force participation
Sabrina Di Addario, Matteo Gomellini (Bank of Italy), Gian Marco Pinna (Tor Vergata)
Discussant: Giuliana Freschi (Sant'Anna)
Wealth, inequality and sex: the changes in female and male wealth and their consequences for the governance of the Russian Empire from the 1700s to the 1850s
Korchmina Elena (Bologna)
Discussant: Leonardo Ridolfi (Siena)
Conquering Nature: how the Gotthard-Tunnel changed European Trade
Carlo Ciccarelli (Tor Vergata), Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt)
Discussant: Matteo Gomellini (Bank of Italy)
20:30-23:00 pm ASE Social Dinner
Francesca Carnevali Prize Award
Chair: Paolo Di Martino (Turin)
Saturday 14
Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
C.so Unione Sovietica 218, bis
9:30-11:15 am ASE Economic History Workshop, Parallel Sessions 3
Session 3.A - Aula 6
Chair: Fabio Lavista (Pisa)
Sixty years of social mobility in Italy, 1871-1931: evidence from fuocatico tax rolls
Brian A’Hearn (Oxford), Giovanni Vecchi (Tor Vergata), Giulia Mancini (Sassari)
Discussant: Sonia Schifano (Bocconi)
Cultivating the disaster: Latifundia, natural hazards and infectious diseases in pre-industrial Sicily
Tancredi Buscemi (Siena), Vania Licio (Cagliari)
Discussant: Emanuele Felice (IULM)
Institutions and Innovation: Evidence from the Italian Unification
Giacomo Domini, Bas Machielsen (Utrecht)
Discussant: Francesco Cinnirella (Bergamo)
Session 3.B - Aula 8
Chair: Andrea Colli (Bocconi)
Inheritance Laws and Ecclesiastical Career: a study of Italian Nobility
Antonino Alessio Vardè (Cattolica)
Discussant: Andrea Xamo (Verona)
Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo-Italian manufacturing productivity gap in the late thirties
Tancredi Salamone (Sant'Anna)
Discussant: Carlo Ciccarelli (Tor Vergata)
Social mobility and exits from apprenticeship training: evidence from early modern Genoa
Alessandro Brioschi (Queen's Belfast)
Discussant: Mattia Fochesato (Bocconi)
11:15-11:45 am Tea & Coffee break
Atrio monumentale
11:45 am-12:00 pm Gianni Toniolo Best Research Paper Prize
Aula 1
Chair: Michelangelo Vasta (Siena; RSE/IREH Editor in Chief)
Finalist papers:
Leonardo Ridolfi, Understanding pre-industrial wages and incomes: A reassessment of the evidence and new interpretations based on France and Italy, RSE/IERH 1/2023
Giulia Mancini, Gender discrimination and intra-household inequality in rural Italy, 1920s-1930s, RSE/IREH 3/2023;
Ugo M. Gragnolati, Luigi Moretti, Roberto Ricciuti, Early railways and industrial development: Local evidence from Sardinia in 1871–1911, RSE/IREH 3/2023;
12:00 am-13:30 pm Seventh ASE Keynote Lecture
Aula 1
Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna; ASE President)
"Debt and Taxes: a Complicated Relation"
Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute)
13:30-14.30 pm Lunch
Atrio monumentale
14:30-16:30pm ASE General Assembly (in Italian)
Aula 1
Hosted and co-organized
Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turin
Note that a current ASE membership is required to attend the Annual Meeting.
Rui Esteves starts his Keynote Lecture
Paolo Di Martino announces the Carnevali Prize Winner during the Social Dinner