May 23d, 2008, Workshop on the history of public finances

Organized by Christophe Chamley (PSE) and Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (PSE).

Contact : Paul Seitz (paul.seitz@pse.ens.fr)

Programme

9:00 Joe Manning (Stanford U.): The finances of the Ptolemaic State

Discussant: François Velde (Chicago Fed.)

10:00 Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University): Progressive taxation in late medieval France - the case of the Parisian Taille

Discussant: Julie Mayade-Claustre (U. de Reims)

11:00 Pause

11:30 Carlos Nogal (U. Carlos III): The market of public debt (juros) in Castile during the second half of the sixteenth century

Discussant: Christophe Chamley (EHESS-PSE)

12:30 Lunch at PSE

14:00 Mauricio Drelichman (U. British Columbia) and Joachim Voth (U. Pompeu Fabra): Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II, 1556-59

Discussant: Jean-Frédéric Schaub (EHESS-CRH)

15:00 Christophe Chamley (PSE): Public debt in England (1737-1750): policy and market expectations

Discussant: Nathan Sussman

16:00 Pause

16:30 François Velde (Chicago Fed): Fiscal policy in Britain and France, 1688-1788

Discussant: Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (EHESS-PSE)

17:30 David Stasavage (New York U.): The Rise of Political Representation and the Problem of Public Credit in Europe, 1250-1750

Discussant: Mark Dincecco (IMT Lucca)