Call for papers: The focus of the seminar are prices and their influence on standards of living in past economies and societies. Its aim is to investigate the influence of prices on living conditions. Attention will be devoted to the influence of prices on incomes, inequality, poverty and then everyday living standards both in the short and long run; without any chronological constraint.

List of participants

1. Luis Almenar Fernández (València), Essential objects and the household economy Price evidence from the late medieval Crown of Aragon
2. Sam Geens (Antwerp), Builders’ wages in Flanders and the Black Death: new data from Coastal Flanders before 1350
3. Eric Hupin (Montreal), The Inflation Rate of the Crusading Era
4. Michail Moatsos (Utrecht), Global Absolute Poverty: Behind the Veil of Money
5. Joan Montoro I Maltas (Lleida), Foodstuff prices in Catalonia during the first half of 14th-century
6. Anne Kucab (Paris), Prices and standards of living in Rouen (15th century)
7. Aina Palarea Marimon (Girona),  Standards of living in Late Medieval Catalonia: the example of the small town of Amer
8. Cheng Yang (Cambridge), Long run regional standard of living, Population Density and Food Price in Late Imperial China 1776-1910
9. Mattia Viale (Verona), Economic growth and material living standards in a transition economy (Venice, 1600-1800)
10. Irina Yányshev Nésterova (Las Palmas), Soviet welfare, prices and proteins’ consumption: 1955-1991
11. Ada Di Nucci (Chieti-Pescara), Development of prices of goods traded in international fairs of Lanciano in the modern age
12. Ernesto Lopez-Losa (Basque Country), After Hamilton: prices, wages and the cost of living in early-modern Spain
13. Francesco Cebreiro Ares (Santiago de Compostela), The great transformation of Porto meat markets 1780-180

Experts

• Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)
• Giovanni Muto (Napoli University)
• Phillip Roessner (Manchester University)
• Antal Szantay (Budapest University)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden University)

Call for papers: The focus of the 2017 seminar is the exploitation of Natural Resources and Environment in past and modern economies and societies. Its aim is to investigate the influence of natural resources and environmental changes on the economy of past and present societies. Attention was devoted to the exploitation of land, mineral resources, energy carriers, water and to climatic changes both in the short and long run.

List of participants

1. Eva Bodovics (Budapest), Water management and flood control practices in Miskolc (Hungary) in the late 19th century
2. Lisa FitzGerald (Galway), Urban Ecology: Envisioning and Aestheticizing Modernity in Samuel Beckett’s Not I
3. Sarah Claire (Paris), Energy mix, crises and transition in Central Europe in the Middle Ages. The Kingdom of Bohemia, 14th-16th century
4. Ellen Janssens (Antwerp), The last urban common? Practices of water use and management in Antwerp (Belgium) during the late 16th and early 17th centur
5. Andreaia Lopes Fidalgo (Lisbon), The «Restoration» Plan of the Kingdom of Algarve: economic reform between 1773 and 1820
6. Soran Mohtadi (Barcelona), An empirical analysis on the relationship between resource rents and human capital: the Role of institutional quality thresholds
7. Wout Saelens (Antwerp),  Energy consumption before and during the early Industrial Revolution: the Northern and Southern Netherlands compared (c. 1650-1850)
8. Harm Zwarts (Wageningen), The development of innovation in Dutch agriculture, c. 1880-1970
9. Clavel Damian (Geneva), “Enemy Mine”: Poyais, mahogany extraction, and the Miskito King 1820-1824

Experts

• Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
• Guido Alfani (Università Bocconi Milano)
  Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)
• Giovanni Muto (Napoli University)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden University)

Call for papers: The focus of the 2018 seminar is the formation and development of maritime exchanges. Its aim is to investigate the influence of trades and connections by sea on the integration of past and present economies, societies and cultures. Attention will be devoted to the exchanges, their techniques, institutions, periods of growth and decline and their geography. Papers could cover any period from Antiquity till today.

List of participants

1. Daniele Dibello (San Marino – Ghent), «Armari debeant pro anno futuro ad viagium Flandrie sex galee»: Venetian merchants in Flanders during the XIVth century
2. Gijs Dreijer (Exeter-Brussels), General average and the development of legal institutions in the Southern Netherlands (15th-16th centuries)
3. Jake Dyble (Exeter) The development of maritime Law in the Livornese portofranco
4. Marina Inì (Cambridge) The network of Lazzaretti in the Mediterranean region: architecture, trade
5. Germán Jiménez Montes (Groningen) Flemish contractors in the organization of the Hispanic navy in Andalusia (1570s-1580s)
6. Fredrik Kämpe (Stockholm ) Convoys, Tributes and Consuls – The Swedish Convoy Office and Swedish Shipping in the Mediterranean, 1724–1867
7. Jurre Knoest (Leiden ) Moderating networks and managing globalization. Nagasaki and Japan’s maritime connections to the outside world, c. 1600-1800
8. Víctor Muñoz Gómez (La Laguna) From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: ports, navigation and sailing knowledge in Andalusia during the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern Age (14th-16th centuries)
9.  Daniele Ognibene (Geneva) Seismography of consumptions: the trading registers of Bologna in the international commercial networks between 14th and 15th century
10. Franzisca Scheiner (Duisburg-Essen ) You have to speculate to accumulate – Investing strategies in Mediterranean long-distance trade in the Middle Ages
11. Josh Ivinson (Cambridge) Transnational institutions and networks in the English Newfoundland trade, 1550-1650
12. Tommaso Stefini (Yale) An open-access institution in Ottoman Istanbul? The Venetian consular court in early seventeenth-century Istanbul and its role in regulating cross-cultural trade
13. Timo Tiainen (Jväskylä)  Long distance international trade of Finland in 1634–1853 – some time series analyses
14. Elisa Tirindelli (Dublin) The futility of merchants wars. A case study of France and Hamburg between 1713 and 1820
15. Lewis Wade (Exeter ) Maritime trade and State regulation: maritime averages in France during the Seventeenth century
16. Maarten Draper (Firenze IUE) Italian merchants in Amsterdam, 1650-1800

Experts

• Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
• Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)
• Giovanni Muto (Napoli University)
• Jari Ojala (Jyväskylä University)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden University)

Call for papers: The 2024 Datini-Ester seminar deals with Social and geographic mobility. The aims are encourage research on social and socio-economic mobility (both upward and downward) in different historical contexts, as well as on geographic mobility, that is migration (short- or long-distance). As is well known, across human history geographic mobility has often played a major role in shaping patterns of socio-economic mobility. Purpose is to clarify the determinants, the extent and the final consequences of mobility in different periods, across entire societies or regarding specific social groups.

List of participants

1. Renato Amoroso, “Italian emigration to Argentina and Luigi Einaudi’s perspective”
2. Anna Arkhina, “Openness of Russian civil elite in 19th century”
3. Alessandro Brioschi, “Social mobility and exits from apprenticeship training: evidence from early modern Genoa”
4. Alice Dominici, “Networks, diversity and migrants’ success: evidence from the Pontine Marshes, 1932-1941”
5. Giuliana Freschi, “Intergenerational mobility in 19th century Italy: A case study approach”
6. Markus Hansen, “The Material Basis of Downwards Social Mobility in 18th-Century Denmark”
7. Francisco Javier Illana López, “Between Palermo and Madrid. Political service, geographical movements and upward mobility in “Spanish Italy” (16th-17th centuries)”
8. Aurelius Noble, “The Persistence of the Aristocracy: Financial and Social Measures, England and Wales (1858-1907)”
9. Sienna Nordquist, “The Marshall Plan as Sanctioner and Protector: The Case of West Berlin, 1949-1953”
10. Eline Rademakers, “Tracing Social Mobility Among Enslaved Workers in 18th Century Suriname”
11. Francesco Romagnoli, “Origin and Developments of Inequality: Evidence from the Pontine Ager colonization scheme in Italy (1932-1943)”
12. Bas Spliet, “From ‘Migrant City’ to ‘City of the Established’? The Social Mobility of Immigrants: Evidence from Amsterdam, 1600-1800”
13. Noah Werner Sutter, “A Testament to Revolution? Two Approaches to Estimating Intergenerational Persistence of Elite Status in France, 1791-1870”
14. Hillary Vipond, “Grandfathered Out: Sheltering from Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain”
15. Ziming Zhu, “Grim Up North? Regional Intergenerational Mobility across England, 1881-1911”

Experts

• Guido Alfani (Bocconi University Milano)
• Francesco Ammannati (Firenze University)
• Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
• Neil Cummins (London School of Economics)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora (Open University of Catalonia)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University)

Call for papers: The 2022 Datini-Ester seminar deals with Economic Innovations; that is the effects on the productivity and efficiency of the economic system deriving from changes in the mix of the inputs. Our purpose is to clarify the role of technical and institutional changes in different economies and discuss the possibility of measuring their effects on gross product.

List of participants

1. Diego Castañeda Garza (Uppsala), Energising Mexico: historical energy consumption, transitions and economic growth 1880-2015
2. Esther Tello (Valencia), Institutional innovations in the Crown of Aragon in the late Middle Ages: long-term account control
3. 3. Emrah Gülsunar (Lund), Carrying the Leviathan: turnpike roads and the precocious rise of state capacity in Britain, 1700-1832
4. Milan Balaban (Brno), Economic innovations and transformations of the Bata Company through history
5. Carla Salvo (Roma), The labour market causes and consequences of technical change: Evidence from the adoption of steam engines in 19th-century France
6. Aristea Gratsea (Crete), The lettera di cambio in the trade system of Venetian Crete (15th-16th century). A case study
7. Marco Martinez (Pisa), Innovation and infrastructure in Italian Municipalities during the Liberal Age: evidence from a new historical patent data-set, 1855-1914
8. Víctor Pérez-Sánchez (London), Not a fiscal story: 17th-century monetary policy as a trade policy to compete in silver
9. Kyle Richmond (Belfast), Innovation, market power, and firm size: evidence from british manufacturing in the Golden Age
10. Vinzent Ostermeyer (Lund) Institutional change and the adoption of new technologies: the case of steam
11. Nick Ford (Lund), Lessons from Oslo: examining social mobility after the establishment of Norway’s first university establishment of Norway’s first university
12. Mostafa Abdelaal (Cairo), Northern Rhodesia’s industrial development amidst regional competition, 1924-1938

Experts

• Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
• Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
• Salvatore Ciriacono (Padova University)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)
• Richard Unger (University of British Columbia)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund University)