Real Law and Real Estate

The sixth meeting of the Caltech Early Modern Group

Treasure Room, Dabney Hall

California Institute of Technology

February 15, 2013

Morning

8:30am Coffee and pastries

9:00am Heidi Deneweth, Oscar Gelderblom, and Joost Jonker, “Microfinance and the Decline of Poverty: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands”

10:10am  Mauricio Drelichman, “What Price a Roof? Housing and the Cost of Living in Sixteenth-Century

Toledo”

11:20am Cihan Artuc, “The Protégé System and Beratli Merchants in the Ottoman Empire: The Price of Legal Institutions”

12:30pm Lunch at The Atheneum, Card Room

Afternoon

1:35pm Veronica Aoki-Santarosa, “Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation: Evidence from a Brokerage Law Reform in Eighteenth-Century Marseille”

2:45pm Maura Dykstra, “Agnostic Courts and Extralegal Arbitration: Business as Usual in Qing Chongqing”

4:00pm Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Philip Hoffman, and Gilles Postel-Vinay, “Priceless Markets II: Time and Space; 1740 or the Rules of the Game.”

6:30pm Dinner at King Hua Restaurant, Alhambra