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Nobody can hope to understand the economic phenomena of any, including the present, epoch, who has not an adequate command of historical facts and an adequate amount of historical sense or what might be described as historical experience. It is, I believe, the fact that most of the fundamental errors currently committed in economic analysis are due to lack of historical experience more often than to any other shortcoming of the economist's equipment.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

We are delighted to invite you to our conference on "Long-Term Perspectives on Business, Finance and Institutions. What can we learn from the past?" The conference is hosted by the Studiecentrum Onderneming en Beurs - SCOB and the Centrum voor Bedrijfsgeschiedenis of the University of Antwerp, Belgium

The objective of this conference is to bring together recent economic and historical research that investigates the development of business and finance over the past centuries, how it interacted with legal, economic and political institutions, and the impact on economic performance. We welcome all contributions that study any aspect of accounting, business, corporate governance, finance and economic performance from a historical perspective. We particularly welcome contributions that focus on the role of institutions, and contributions based on long time series analysis.

Term Perspectives on Business, Finance and Institutions: What Can We Learn from the Past?
October 19-20, 2006
University of Antwerp, Belgium

Keynote Speakers

Youssef Cassis , Université de Genève, Switzerland
"The rise and decline of international financial centres, 1780-20062

Elroy Dimson , London Business School, UK
"20th century global stock market history"

Ranald Michie , University of Durham, UK
"Stock exchanges and economic performance in the 19th and 20th centuries"

Gregory Waymire , Emory University Atlanta - Georgia, USA
"Accounting as an evolved institution"

Accepted Papers

1. Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University)
Credit market constraints and financial networks in late Victorian Britain

2. Maria Brouwer (University of Amsterdam)
Executive Pay and Tenure: Recent Developments and Historical Analogies

3. David Chambers (Oxford University)
Better regulation and underwriter reputation have done nothing for IPO underpricing over the 20th Century: Empirical Evidence from IPOs on the London Stock Exchange (David Chambers and Elroy Dimson)

4. Christian Day (Syracuse University)
Paper Conspiracies and the End of All Good Order: Perceptions and Speculation in Early Capital Markets

5. Christian Day (Syracuse University)
Risky Business: The Portrayal of Speculation from Tulips to Wall Street

6. Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques)
Bankruptcy law and practice in XIXth century France

7. David Jacks (Simon Fraser University)
Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution (David S. Jacks and Krishna Pendakur)

8. Camilla Josephson (London School of Economics)
Macroeconomic Policy, Financial Markets and Knowledge Accumulation in Swedish Manufacturing Industry in three phases:1952-1975, 1975-1992, 1992-2001

9. Kim Kaivanto (Lancaster University Management School)
Premise and Practice of U.K. Launch Aid

10. Muriel Koñczyk (ESA, Lille 2 University)
Big changes in ownership structures: Multiple votes in interwar France

11. Hideaki Miyajima (Waseda University and RIETI)
Evolution of Ownership: The Curious Case of Japan (Julian Franks, Colin Mayer and Hideaki Miyajima)

12. Branko Milanovic (World Bank)
The Modern World: The effect of democracy, colonialism and war on economic growth 1820-2000

13. Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School)
Can civil-law countries get good institutions? Creditor rights, contract enforcement, and the rise and decline of bond markets in Brazil, 1850-2003

14. Carlos Alejandro Ponzio (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico México)
Looking at the dark side of things: political instability and economic growth in post-independence Mexico

15. Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers University, NBER)
Towards A History of the Junk Bond Market, 1910-1955(P. Basile & H. Rockoff)

16. Annelies Roggeman (University of Antwerp)
Dividends, Agency-Conflicts and Universal Banks: Evidence from Pre-World War 1 Belgium (M. Deloof, A. Roggeman, W. Van Overfelt)

17. Janette Rutterford (Open University Business School)
Learning from one’s mistakes? Managing risk in the mutual fund industry, 1868-1940

18. Stephen Sapp (The University of Western Ontario)
Dividends and Stock Valuation: A Study From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century (S. Foerster & S. Sapp)

19. Armin Schwienbacher (University of Amsterdam)
The political origin of pension funding (E. Perotti & A. Schwienbacher)

20. Wim Van Hyfte (Ghent University)
Drivers of expected bond and stock returns for the Brussels stock exchange: Evidence for the 19th century (J. Annaert & W. Van Hyfte)

21. Wouter Van Overfelt (University of Antwerp)
Universal Banks, Asymmetric Information and Corporate Capital Structure: Evidence from Pre-World War 1 Belgium (W. Van Overfelt, M. Deloof)

22. Wouter Van Overfelt (University of Antwerp)
Do Universal Banks Create Value? Universal Bank Affiliation and Company Performance in Belgium, 1905-1909 (W. Van Overfelt, J. Annaert, M. De Ceuster, M. Deloof)