Our Seminars & Workshops

Title: Industrialisation of the Alps

Authors: Hans Manner, Ferdinand Rauch, and Martin Schlesinger

Abstract: We study factors that facilitate the diffusion of technology following the Industrial Revolution. Our novel dataset covers parts of Central Europe with high spatial resolution from 1782 to 1930. Leveraging instrumental

variables and the staggered expansion of the railway network, we document that industrialization flourished particularly where transport infrastructure and resources coincided, highlighting strong complementarities between

these endowments. We show that coal mining served as the predominant driver of this relationship. We only find a negative relationship between pre-existing artisanal skills and railways in predicting growth. Finally, we demonstrate that electrification - though positively associated with growth - primarily reinforced existing patterns.

Title: Salary History Ban in the United States

Title: How Do Self-Evaluations Influence Others’ Evaluations? An Updated design

Title: Identity Linkage, Religiosity, and Policy Preference: Experiment on Cricket in India

There will be two presentations:

Ozlem Toplar will present Beyond Exposure: Active Engagement with Alternative Identities and Affective Polarization.

Enver Ferit Akin will present Geopolitics at the Examiner's Desk: Evidence from 2018 China Initiative and USPTO Patent Examination (with Emre Ekinci).

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