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BETA, UMR 7522 CNRS-Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion - Pôle Européende Gestion et d’Economie 61, Avenue de la Forêt Noire, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France2nd BETA-Workshop in Historical EconomicsFriday, 5 May9.15-9.20 LLERENA, P. (BETA-Strasbourg):Welcome Address.9.20-9.30 DIEBOLT, C. (BETA-Strasbourg): Introduction to Economic Growthand Cycles.Session 1 – Chair: EGE, R. (BETA-Strasbourg).9.30-10.15 WITT, U. (Max Planck Institut-University of Jena): Accounting for HistoricalContingencies in Economic Theory vs. Theorizing about Economic History.10.15-11.00 HAGEMANN, H. (University of Hohenheim): Research Institutes on BusinessCycles in the German Language Area in the Interwar Period.11.00-11.15 Coffee Break.Session 2 – Chair: DOS SANTOS FERREIRA, R. (BETA-Strasbourg).11.15-12.00 SOLOMOU, S. (Cambridge University): Episodic Long Swings in EconomicGrowth: the 19th and 20th Centuries.12.00-12.45 FIELD, A. (Santa Clara University): US Economic Growth in the GildedAge.12.45-14.00 Lunch.Session 3 – Chair: KOEBEL, B. (BETA-Strasbourg).14.00-14.45 METZ, R. (St. Gallen University &#38;ZHSF Cologne): Long Waves in Higher Education in Germany.14.45-15.30 LJUNGBERG, J. &#38; NILSSON, A. (Lund University): Human Capital and EconomicGrowth: Sweden 1870-2000.15.30-15.45 Coffee Break.Session 4 – Chair: DIEBOLT, C. (BETA-Strasbourg).15.45-16.30 RITSCHL, A. &#38; UEBELE, M. (Humboldt University Berlin): Stock Markets and Business CycleComovement in Germany before World War I: Evidence fromSpectral Analysis.16.30-17.15 SILVERBERG, G. (Maastricht University): The Statistical Phenomenology ofInnovation in the Longue Durée.17.15-18.00 MISHRA, T. (BETA-Strasbourg): Shocks and History: RetrospectingInterrelatedness and the Need for New Methodology.19.30 Dinner.Saturday, 6 MaySession 5 –Chair: KERN, F. (BETA-Strasbourg).9.30-10.15 REATI, A. (Technical University of Lisbon) &#38; TOPOROWSKI, J. (Amsterdam University): An Economic Policy for the FifthLong Wave.10.15-11.00 BISMANS, F. &#38; MOUGEOT, C. (BETA-Nancy): Business Cyclesin France: Measurement and Forecasting.11.00-11.15 Coffee Break.Session 6 – Chair: PARENT, A. (BETA-Strasbourg).11.15-12.00 RUBIO, M. (University Pompeu Fabra): Protectionist but Globalized? LatinAmerican Custom Duties and Trade during the Pre-1914 Belle Epoque.12.00-12.45 HUBERMAN, M. (University of Montreal): A Ticket to Trade. Belgian Labourand Globalisation before 1914.12.45-14.00 Lunch.Session 7 – Chair: LLERENA, P. (BETA-Strasbourg).14.00-14.45 SCHULZE, M.S. (London School of Economics) &#38; WOLF, N. (FreeUniversity of Berlin): Harbingers of Dissolution? Grain Prices,Borders and Nationalism in the Habsburg Economy before the First World War.14.45-15.30 HEINEMEYRE, H.C. (Free University of Berlin): What wasreally the Effect of World War I on Economic Disintegration in Central Europe? An Evaluation of the Pre- andPost- War Trade of German and Polish Regions.15.30-16.00 Conclusion.