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International Macro History Online Seminar Series

The International Macroeconomic History Online Seminar Series, jointly organised by the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development, Centre for Economic Policy Research and a consortium of numerous other universities and institutions from around the world, aims to keep the flow of intellectual debate active and to bring macroeconomic history topics to an interested public on a regular basis.

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The Fall 2025 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 10 September to 17 December and will take place virtually, bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 17:00 (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with an extra optional 15 minutes for further discussion. 

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    The International Macroeconomic History Online Seminar Series, jointly organised by the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and DevelopmentCentre for Economic Policy Research and a consortium of numerous other universities and institutions from around the world, aims to keep the flow of intellectual debate active and to bring macroeconomic history topics to an interested public on a weekly basis.

    A virtual format has important advantages, namely, by abolishing physical constraints, so we can have more participants joining in from compatible time zones than the conventional seminars. This is good for the presenters, who are exposed to a broader audience and also for the audience, who can choose to attend seminar series closer to their own research interests. This advantage is greater for specialized sub-disciplines. This is the reason why we launched a seminar in macro history. Finally, co-ordinating a joint seminar series provides economies of scale in time use.

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    The Fall 2025 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 10 September to 17 December. 

    The programme is as follows:

    • IMHOS 97- 10 September 2025: Thomas Zeiler (University of Colorado Boulder), "Beyond the Nixon Shocks". Chair: Nathan Sussman (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR)
    • IMHOS 98- 24 September 2025: Eva Mulder (Erasmus University Rotterdam) with Peter Koudijs, "Holding Bankers Liable: Personal Guarantees and Risk- taking in Security Underwriting". Chair: Caroline Fohlin (Emory University)
    • IMHOS 99 - 8 October 2025: Francesco Molteni (The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis), "International Banking Flows and Financial Crises". Chair: Catherine Schenk (University of Oxford and CEPR)
    • IMHOS 100 - 22 October 2025: Panel on "Geoeconomics" with Dale Copeland (University of Virginia) and Jesse Schreger (Columbia Business School and CEPR) and Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute and CEPR). Chair: Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University and CEPR). 
    • IMHOS 101- 5 November 2025: Aditi Sahasrabuddhe (Brown University), "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse". Chair: Stefano Battilossi (Universidad Carlos III Madrid).  
    • IMHOS 102- 19 November 2025: Monique Reiske (Humboldt University Berlin) with Thilo Nils Hendrik Albers and Felix Kersting, "The Political Costs of Debt Deflation: Agricultural Crises and the Rise of the Nazi Party". Chair: Emilie Sartre (University of Nottingham)  
    • IMHOS 103- 3 December 2025: Cameron LaPoint (Yale University) with Gustavo Cortes, "Housing is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 years of Local Building Permits". Chair: John Landon- Lane (Rutgers University)
    • IMHOS 104- 17 December 2025: Christopher Meissner (University of California, Davis) with Alex Klein, "Did Tariffs Make US Manufacturing Great? New Evidence from the Gilded Age". Chair: Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR)

    The Spring 2025 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 12 February to 28 May. 


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    The Fall 2024 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 4 September to 11 December. 


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    The spring 2024 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 21 February to 22 May 2024. 


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    The fall 2023 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from 30 August to 13 December 2023.

    Find below the recordingspapers and slides of the Fall 2020 sessions.

    Recordings of the fall 2020 sessions

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