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Chers collègues,J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à la journée suivante :WorkshopEarly trade statistics: What are they and why do we careMay 23rd 2014Ground floor roomOFCE 69 Quai d'Orsay75007 ParisThe development of economic expertise and the growing availability of economic statistics go hand in hand. That has been the case from the late 17th century, when a number of innovators in economic thought were also political arithmeticians. As such, shortcutting the understanding of the production of economic statistics can only lead to bad expertise. This workshop will examine the production of part of the earliest available macroeconomic statistics: those dealing with trade.This study is especially interesting in the 18th century because continental Europe went through a growing integration phase before the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. While Great-Britain was retreating from continental markets for the benefit of overseas ones (despite he 1786 trade treaty with France), free trade was making progress on the continent, supported by a wave of free trade treaties in the 1780s. This was followed by the closing up of European national economies during and after the wars. What was the relation between the two phenomena? Considering that what is usually called the “First” globalization of the 19th century floundered after World War I, is there some kind of regularities that should be taken into account when we examine the consequences of our current globalization? What are the available data? How can we work with them? What do they teach us about the economic evolutions in this pre-statistic age? ProgramGround floor room OFCE 69 Quai d'Orsay 75007 Paris9.30-9.45 Welcome word by the OFCE president9.45-10.00 Presenting TOFLIT18 and the program10.00-10.45 Loïc Charles (University of Paris-8/INED): Sources and pitfall in early trade statistics (summarizing the questionnaires)10.45-11.00 Coffee break11.00-11.45 Ulrich Pfister (University of Münster), Import trade in Hamburg, 1733-179811.45-12.30 Werner Scheltjens (University of Leipzig), French imports and exports from the Baltic 1670-1850: a quantitative analysis.12.30-2.15 Lunch2.15-3.00 Cristina Moreira (University of Minho), Jari Eloranta (Appalachian State University and University of Jyväskylä), Jari Ojala (University of Jyväskylä) and Lauri Karvonen (Åbo Akademi University), Methodological Issues in Comparing Trade Flows between Portugaland Scandinavia: Lessons from the Soundtoll Records3.00-3.45 Jeroen van der Vliet (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), Linking Amsterdamand Sound data sources3.45-4.00 Coffee break4.00-4.45 Guillaume Daudin (University of Paris-Dauphine/OFCE), Linking French and Sound data sources4.45-5.30 Hubert Escaith (WTO), Comparing past and current issues in trade statisticsThis event is open to all. To register, please send an email before May 21st 2014 at: valerie.richard@sciencespo.fr . It is funded both by OFCE and the ANR TOFLIT18 (http://toflit18.hypotheses.org/)Scientific committee:Guillaume Daudin (guillaume.daudin@dauphine.fr).Loïc Charles (charles@ined.fr).Communication:Sylvie Legolvan (sylvie.legolvan@sciencespo.fr – 01 44 18 54 07)Inscriptions &#38; informations:Valérie Richard (valerie.richard@sciencespo.fr – 01 44 18 54 23)