Ann Carlos (University of Colorado), Frank Lewis (Queen's University), and Alexander MacDonald (University of British Columbia) Nutrition and the Standard of Living of Native Americans and Europeans in the Eighteenth Century

Tony Ward (Brock University) Institutional Constraints on Indian Farming on the Canadian Prairies, 1885 to 1920

10:30am - 10:45 am COFFEE BREAK

10:45am - 12:00pm POLITICAL INFLUENCE AND INSTITUTIONS: TWO CASE STUDIE

Chair: Marc Law (University of Vermont)

Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern University), Timothy Guinnane (Yale University) and Yoonseok Lee(Yale University) The Passage of the Uniform Small Loan Law

Mauricio Drelichman (University of British Columbia) Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Political Control in Sixteenth-Century Castile

12:00pm - 1:15pm LUNCH

1:15pm - 3:00pm COMPARISONS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Ian Keay (Queen's University)

Livio Di Mateo (Lakehead University), Herb Emery (University of Calgary), and Martin Shanahan (University of South Australia) Natural Resource Exports, Wealth Accumulation and Development in Settler Economies: Northwestern Ontario and South Australia: 1905-1915

Carl Mosk (University of Victoria) Infrastructure, Trade Driven Growth Potential and Economic Development in Two Dominions: Canada and Australia Compared, 1917-1975

Richard Sicotte (University of Vermont), Catalina Vizcarra (University of Vermont) and Kirsten Wandschneider (Middlebury College) Natural Resources and the Economic Consequences of the War in the Pacific

3:00pm - 3:15pm COFFEE BREAK

3:15pm - 5:00pm ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND GROWTH

Chair: Marc Miró (University of Barcelona)

Richard Pomfret (University of Adelaide) Resource Abundance and Long-Run Growth: When is Oil a Curse? The Effect of Oil Discoveries on Kazakhstan's Economy

Mar Rubio (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) and Mauricio Folchi (Universidad de Chile and Pompeu Fabra) The Apparent Consumption of Fossil Energy as an Indicator of Modernisation in Latin America by 1925: A Proposal using Foreign Trade Statistics

Chair: Marina Adshade (Dalhousie University)

David Green (University of British Columbia) and Alan Green (Queen's University) Evolution of the Canadian Wage Structure from 1880 to the Present

Mary MacKinnon (McGill University) and Daniel Parent (McGill University) Pulled Up While Held Back: Institutions, Family Background, and the Educational Attainment of Franco-Americans in New England

Stuart Wilson (University of Regina) Canadian Economic Development and Factor Movements before the Great Depression

10:30am - 10:45am COFFEE BREAK

10:45am - 12:00pm DISSERTATION SESSION

Chair: Eona Karakacili (University of Western Ontario)

Catherine Douglas (University of British Columbia) Enclosure and Agricultural Development in Scotland

Shih-Tse Lo (Concordia University) Strengthening Intellectual Property Rights: Experience from the 1986 Taiwanese Patent Reforms

Almos Tassonyi (University of Calgary) Education, Debt Capacity and the Hard Budget Constraint for Ontario Municipalities in the 1950s

12:00pm - 1:15pm LUNCH

1:15pm - 3:00pm MONETARY SHOCKS AND BANKING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chair: Donald Paterson (University of British Columbia)

Michael Bordo (Rutgers), John Lane (Rutgers), and Angela Redish (University of British Columbia) The Role of Gold in the Deflation of the Late 19th Century

David Jacks (Simon Fraser University) Populists vs. Theorists: Futures Markets and the Volatility of Prices

Ronald Shearer (University of British Columbia) Imperial Regulation and the Constitution of Early Canadian Banking

3:00pm - 3:15pm COFFEE BREAK

3:15pm - 4:30pm SPORTS AND ALCOHOL DO MIX

Chair: Patrick Coe (Carleton University)

Louis Cain (Loyola University of Chicago and Northwestern University) and David Haddock (Northwestern University) Similar Economies, Similar Histories, Different Structures: Transatlantic Contrasts in the Evolution of Professional Sports Leagues

Ruth Dupré (University of Montreal) and Désiré Vencatachellum (University of Montreal) Canadians and Prohibition: An Analysis of the 1898 Referendum

4:30pm BUSINESS MEETING

6:30pm BANQUET - UNIVERSITY CLUB AT QUEEN'S
                 (168 Stuart Street)
                 Reception: 6:30pm
                 Dinner: 7:30pm

Speaker: Jeffrey Williamson (Harvard University) De-Industrialization in the Pre-Modern Periphery

Chair: Marvin McInnis (Queen's University)

Claude Diebolt (University of Montpellier, France) and Cédric Doliger (University of Montpellier) Becker vs. Easterlin: Education, Fertility and Growth in France after World War II

Kris Inwood (University of Guelph) and John Cranfield (University of Guelph) Anthropometric Indicators for Canada during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

10:30am - 10:45am COFFEE BREAK

10:45am - 12:00pm INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL AND INVENTION

Chair: Gillian Hamilton (University of Toronto)

David Mitch (University of Maryland) International Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the Engineering Profession and of Its Allegedly Delayed Development in Britain

Dhanoos Sutthiphisal (McGill University) Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links between Invention and Production: Experience from the Second Industrial Revolution

12:00pm CLOSING REMARKS