Tenth ASE Annual Meeting

The Tenth ASE Annual Meeting took place on October 3-4 in Venice, at the Venice International University (VIU) on the island of San Servolo, hosted by the Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in cooperation with Venice International University.

The Tenth ASE Keynote Lecture was given by professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, University of Oxford). During the Meeting, the Carnevali Prize, was awarded to Callum McGurk (Newcastle University).

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 3

13:45-14:15 pm Registration

Aula Magna

14:15-14:30 pm Welcome and Opening remarks

14:30-16:15 pm ASE Economic History Workshop, Parallel Sessions 1

• Session 1.A - Aula Magna

Chair: Alberto Rinaldi (Modena Reggio)

State Capacity and the (In)effectiveness of medical technology: The difficult path to safe and reliable vaccination in Victorian Britain

Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna)

Discussant: Mauro Rota (Sapienza)

What if… The impact of 1987’s nuclear power referendum in Italy

Stefano Clò (Florence), Alessandra Pasquini (Bank of Italy)

Discussant: Tancredi Buscemi (Siena)

Electricity and the geography of industrial development in a latecomer country: Preliminary evidence on Italy, 1901-1911

Andrea Xamo (Verona), Roberto Ricciuti (Verona)

Discussant: Jacob Weisdorf (Sapienza)

• Session 1.B – Conference Room

Chair: Andrea Colli (Bocconi)

Political Entanglements. A Network Study on Contracts, Power, and Defection in Renaissance Italy’s Warfare Market

Margherita Criveller (Milan), Federico Bianchi (Milan), Raffaele Vacca (Milan), Flaminio Squazzoni (Milan)

Discussant: Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna)

The costs of trade wars: evidence from the late 19th century

Rodolfo G. Campos (Bank of Spain), Matteo Gomellini (Bank of Italy), Iliana Reggio (Autonoma Madrid), and Jacopo Timini (Bank of Spain)

Discussant: Carla Salvo (Sapienza)

The contribution of banks of issue to the formation of a national credit market, Italy 1861-1913

Marianna Astore (Insubria), Maria Stella Chiaruttini (Vienna), Federico Barbiellini Amidei (Bank of Italy, Paolo Croce (Bank of Italy), Paolo Piselli (Bank of Italy)

Discussant: Paolo Di Martino (Turin)

16:15-16:45 pm Tea & Coffee break

16:45-18:30 pm ASE Economic History Workshop, Parallel Sessions 2

• Session 2.A - Aula Magna

Chair: Giovanni Vecchi (Tor Vergata)

A Golden Age for All? Income Inequality and Social Classes in Italy, 1950-1973

Edoardo Rappa (Siena), Giacomo Gabbuti (Sant’Anna)

Discussant: Brian A’Hearn (Oxford)

Geographic mortality differentials and the quality-quantity trade-off: Evidence from 19th-century Armenia

Sinara Gharibyan (Prague), David Gomtsyan (Pompeu Fabra), Eric Roca Fernandez (Clermont Auvergne)

Discussant: Giulia Mancini (Sassari)

Social mobility and industrialization in Milan, 1880-1910: exploring the modernization thesis

Simone Frisoni (UC3M)

Discussant: Giuliana Freschi (Sant’Anna)

• Session 2.B – Conference Room

Chair: Raffaele Danna (Sant'Anna)

Quality Matters: Tracking Patent Quality in Fascist Italy via Patent Families

Tancredi Salamone (Sant’Anna)

Discussant: Michelangelo Vasta (Siena)

From Boom to Bust: The Structural Transformation of Chile’s Industrial Sector After the Nitrate Collapse

Alejandra Rodriguez Morales (Luzern)

Discussant: Emanuele Felice (IULM)

Globalization, Labour Markets and Conflict: Evidence from Strike Activity in Italy, 1881–1911
Tancredi Buscemi (Siena), Anna Missiaia (Gothenburg), Dario Pellegrino (Bank of Italy)

Discussant: Vera Zamagni (Bologna)

20:30-23:00 pm ASE Social Dinner

Venice International Univerity, Sala E-Grecale, Isola di San Servolo

Francesca Carnevali Prize Award

Chair: Giovanni Favero (Venice)

Saturday 4

9:30-11:15 am ASE Economic History Workshop, Parallel Sessions 3

• Session 3.A - Aula Magna

Chair: Maria Carmela Schisani (Federico II)

Asymmetric shocks in pre-industrial labour markets: evidence from the 1630-1631 plague in Venice

Alessandro Brioschi (Queen’s Belfast)

Discussant: Leonardo Ridolfi (Siena)

Climate and Economic Stability in Qing China

Paul Erdkamp (VUB), Kuan-Hui Elaine Lin (National Taiwan Normal University), Luigi Oddo (VUB)

Discussant: Mattia Fochesato (Bocconi)

• Session 3.B – Conference Room

Chair: Federico Barbiellini Amidei (Bank of Italy)
The human capital legacy of war: a quasi-experiment from the Italo-Ethiopian conflict (1910 – 1970)

Gabriele Cappelli (Siena), Alemu Lambamo (Addis Ababa), Michelangelo Vasta (Siena)

Discussant: Francesco Cinnirella (Bergamo)

Women’s education and fertility in Italy at the onset of the demographic transition

Carlo Ciccarelli (Tor Vergata), Gianni Marciante (Bologna)

Discussant: Matteo Gomellini (Bank of Italy)

Slave Trade and the Spread of Islam in Africa: Theory and Evidence

Akwasi Ampofo (Adelaide), Umair Khalil (Deakin), Laura Panza (Melbourne), Francisco Silva (Deakin)

Discussant: Giovanni Federico (NYUAD)

11:15-11:45 am Tea & Coffee break 

11:45 am-13:15 pm Aula Magna Tenth ASE Keynote Lecture

Leviathan's Health: State Capacity and Pestilence from the Black Death to Covid

Chair: Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna; ASE President)

Sheilagh Ogilvie (Oxford)

13:15-14.30 pm Light Lunch

14:30-16:30pm ASE General Assembly

Aula Magna

Note that a current ASE membership is required to attend the Annual Meeting: interested participants should contact ase@santannapisa.it as soon as possible.