The seminar on stock exchange price currents originally planned to take place in Amsterdam on 27 November 2020 will now take place in webformat with the following programme:
Seminar 1, Friday 27 November 2020, 15.30-17.30 hrs
1. Peter Solar, ‘Prices: Sources, Problems, Solutions’
2. Tony Moore (University of Reading), ‘The precursors of price currents – mercantile correspondence in the later Middle Ages’
3. Stephan Köhler (Mannheim University), ‘The price of money. Interest rates in medieval sources: Examples from Tirol 1287-1406’
Seminar 2, Friday 4 December 2020, 15.30-17.30 hrs
4. Frans Buelens and Johan Poukens (Antwerp University), ‘Stock exchange regulation, price quotation and the official lists of the stock exchanges of Brussels and Antwerp, 1840-1914’
5. Jérémy Ducros and Angelo Riva (PSE), ‘Competition and information, the Paris financial center in the 19th century’
6. Frederic Steinfeld (Goethe University, Frankfurt), ‘The controllability of financial publications: balance manipulation, hidden reserves and dividend smoothing in the German chemical industry around 1900’
Seminar 3, Friday 11 December 2020, 15.30-17.30 hrs
7. Angelo Riva (PSE), ‘The Milan and Genoa Stock Exchanges: official and private lists’
8. Mika Vaihekoski (Turku School of Economics), ‘Revisiting Index Methodology for Thinly Traded Stock Market: the Helsinki Stock Exchange’
9. TBA: David Chambers or Van Bochove, Gelderblom & Jonker
All meetings will take place via Zoom. Colleagues wishing to attend should send an email to Joost Jonker, joost.jonker@iisg.nl, so as to be given the access codes and password for each meeting.