12.30pm: Lunch
13:00-13:15pm: Welcome and introduction to the Financial History Group
Olivier Accominotti, Director, LSE Financial History Group
13:15-15:00pm: Session 1: Financial Markets in the 19th and 20th Centuries
David Chambers (Cambridge Judge Business School and LSE): Indian equity returns since 1900
Luisa Bicalho-Ritzkat (LSE): Value investing in the art market: The National Gallery, London, 1824-1994
Youssef Ghallada (LSE): Pound for pound: The Sterling bill market during the first wave of globalisation
15:00-15:30pm: Coffee break
15:30-17:00pm: Session 2: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt and Exchange Rate Regimes
Nadia Matringe (LSE): Italian bankers and the organization of the royal debt market in 16th century Lyon
Pamfili Antipa (LSE): Charity Begins at Home—Why Britain resumed the Gold Standard after the French Wars
Albrecht Ritschl (LSE): Seniority Reversals and Endogenous Sudden Stops: The Transfer Problem under the Dawes Plan Revisited
17:00-17:15pm: Coffee break
17:15-17:45pm: Panel discussion for members of the Financial History Group
18:30pm: Workshop dinner (by invitation)