APEBH 2007

(a) Development and Growth

Conference Room 1

Chair: Jim McAloon

Rémy Herrera (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

"Educational Spending, Human Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth: Applications to Australia and New Zealand"  160KB

Brian Easton (Economic and Social Trust On New Zealand)

"A New Economic History of New Zealand: Some Issues"  37KB

(b) Finance I

Conference Room 2

Chair: David Merrett

Leslie Hannah (University of Tokyo)

"Global Equity Markets in 1900: why were Asia and America so far behind Africa and Europe?"  417KB

Diane Hutchinson (University of Sydney)

"Australian equity markets, asymmetric information and IPO investors in 1920s"  230KB

Catherine Schenk (University of Glasgow) and John Singleton (Victoria University of Wellington)

"New Zealand's Exchange Rate Regime, the Collapse of Bretton Woods, and the Twilight of the Sterling Area."  114KB

(a) Industrialization and Growth

Conference Room 1

Chair: John Singleton

David Merrett (University of Melbourne) and Simon Ville (University of Wollongong)

"Tariffs, Subsidies and Profits: A Re-assessment of Structural Change in Australia 1901-1939"  341KB

Pierre van der Eng (ANU)

"The Sources of Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2005"

Camilla Josephson (LSE)

"Knowledge accumulation and productivity growth during Different Economic Regimes: Swedish Manufacturing Industry 1952-1975, 1975-1992, 1992-2001"  296KB

(b) Finance II

Conference Room 2

Chair: Gordon Boyce

Grietjie Verhoef (Universiteit van Johannesburg)

"Globalisation, Concentration and Regulation: Trends in the Globalisation of South African Banking, 1980-2005"  107KB

Paul L. Robertson (University of Tasmania/University of Queensland)

"Transaction Costs, Trust, and the Structuring of Markets: The Early Development of Stock Markets"  215KB

Mike Beggs (University of Sydney)

"Before the Storm: The Making of Australian Anti-inflation Policy During the Post-War Boom"  110KB

(a) International Trade

Conference Room 1

Chair: Stephen Morgan

Kent Deng (LSE)

"The Nanking Treaty System, Institutional Changes, and Improved Economic Performance in Qing China."  388KB

Chih-lung Lin (National Chung Hsing University)

"British State Aid and the Rise of the Cunard Line on the North Atlantic."  50KB

(b) Corporate Governance I

Conference Room 2

Chair: John Wilson

Marie dela Rama (University of Technology, Sydney)

"The Impact of Corporate Governance Reforms on Two Asia-Pacific Stock Exchanges"  211KB

Terutomo Ozawa (Colorado State University)

"Creating the World in America's Own Image? Private Equity, Corporate Governance, and "Flying-Geese" Theory of Financial Development"  123KB

Conference Reception

Forum Restaurant, adjoining conference centre

(a) Corporate Governance II

Conference Room 1

Chair: Simon Ville

David Merrett (University of Melbourne)

"Corporate Governance, Incentives and the Internationalization of Australian Business, 1975-2000"  134KB

Pedro Carvalho de Mello (IBMEC São Paulo)

"Corporate Governance in Listed Brazilian Companies, 1882-1890"  227KB

(b) Varieties of Capitalist Development

Conference Room 2

Chair: Brian Easton

W.R. Garside (University of Otago)

"What fate Japan's 'deviant' post-war capitalism?"

Hazel Petrie (University of Auckland)

"Tribal Capitalism: Oxymoron or efficient mode of production?"  206KB

Alanna Hardman (University of New England)

"Inflation - It Pays to Have the Numbers: The Distribution of Income in Australia 1968-1986"  129KB

(c) New Approaches to the Study of Living Standards and Inequality

Meeting Room 6

Chair: Pierre van der Eng

Sara Horrell (University of Cambridge), David Meredith (UNSW) and Deborah Oxley (UNSW)

"In the Foothills of Mt. Waaler: Body Mass and Life Chances in mid-Victorian London"

R.V. Jackson (UNSW@ADFA)

"Newgate Girls on the Voyage to New South Wales, 1826-40"  42KB

Stephen L Morgan (University of Melbourne)

"Stature and Famine in China: The Welfare of the Survivors of the Great Leap Forward Famine, 1959-61"  98KB

(a) Corporate Social Responsibility and Institutions

Conference Room 1

Chair: Rick Garside

M. Kanchan (Mahajana Degree College)

"Market Friendliness and Corporate Social Responsibility: Can They Work in Tandem?"  131KB

Daniela-Luminita Constantin (Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest)

"Large Housing Estates Rehabilitation in Central and East European Countries in the Post-Socialist Period: Institutional Issues in the Case of Rumania"  210KB

(b) Cartels and Business Associations

Conference Room 2

Chair: Paul Robertson

Sub Park (Inje University)

"The Role of Trade Associations in Northeast Asian Economic Growth During the First Half of the 20th century"  134KB

Susanna Fellman (University of Helsinki)

"The Finnish Model of Capitalism, Cartel legislation and Cartelisation: from Independence until EU Membership"  86KB

(c) Business Systems

Meeting Room 6

Chair: Maxine Darnell

Simon Ville (University of Wollongong) and David Merrett (University of Melbourne)

"Size, profitability and survivorship: the performance of large scale enterprise in Australia"  157KB

John Wilson (University of Central Lancashire)

"The European Corporation: Myth or Reality?"

Richard Grainger and Samir Ranjan Chatterjee (Curtin University of Technology)

"Chinese and Indian Business Systems: Divergent in the midst of Global Trends"  315KB

(a) Governance and Ideas

Conference Room 1

Chair: Pierre van der Eng

Rémy Herrera (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

"Governance and Development"  58KB

Larry Lepper (Victoria University of Wellington)

"The Spread of Economic Ideas: The Role of the Economist as Public Intellectual"  87KB

(b) Environmental Issues

Conference Room 2

Chair: Deb Oxley

Ian Morley (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

"Urbanisation's Costs under Capitalism: Victorian Britain's Annual War & the Surfacing of the Garden Solution"  358KB

Jim McAloon (Lincoln University)

"Information, Staples Production, and Environmental Change"  95KB

(c) Management and Human Capital in Asia

Meeting Room 6

Chair: Paul Robertson

Takashi Hirao (Tokyo University of Science, Suwa)

"Diversification and Labour Strategy of a Japanese Textile Maker: A Case Study of Practical Use of Hunan Resources as Intellectual Skills"  178KB

Stephen Morgan (University of Melbourne)

"What Did Chinese Managers Know? A Bibliometric Analysis of Management and Accounting Literature in China before 1949"  429KB

Neil Barnwell (University of Technology Sydney)

"Japanese Management: Its Emergence into Western Consciousness and its Long Term Impact"  61KB

Presentation of the McComish Prize for Economic History and the McComish Postgraduate Prize

Conference Room 1

Butlin Lecture

Conference Room 1

Chair: Simon Ville

Professor Douglas A. Irwin (Department of Economics, Dartmouth College)

Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual General Meeting

Conference Room 1

Conference Dinner

Venue: Sugaroom Restaurant, 2/1 Harris St, Pyrmont

McComish Session

Conference Room 1

Chair: Ian Mclean

Big Questions in Economic History

(a) Finance and Development

Conference Room 1

Chair: Jim McAloon

Sean Turnell (Macquarie University)

"Parching the Land? The Chettiars in Burma"  67KB

Poeura Tetoe (University of Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Foreign Direct Investments and Foreign Trade - Comparison between Indonesian Papua Irian-Jaya and Papua New Guinea

Maxine Darnell (University of New England)

"The Alternative Building Society - Starr-Bowkett Societies: Function, Growth and Operation"  818KB

(b) Business Archives

Conference Room 2

Chair: Hans Naas

Bruce Smith (Archive Research Consultancy)

"Globalisation in the Archives"

Hans Naas

"The International Council on Archives and the Work of the Business and Labour History Archive Section"

Didier Bondue (Archivist of Saint Gobain group)

"Global Archives of Saint Gobain Group"

(a) History of Economic Thought

Conference Room 1

Chair: John Singleton

Matthew Smith (University of Sydney)

"Thomas Tooke on the Corn Laws"  133KB

Peter Groenewegen (University of Sydney)

"British Nineteenth Century Economics and the Asia-Pacific Region: A Review of some Prominent Economists' Opinions"  87KB

Tony Aspromourgos (University of Sydney)

"Adam Smith: Political Economy as a Policy Science"  234KB

(b) Language, Perceptions, and Labour

Conference Room 2

Chair: Stephen Morgan

Norman Abjorensen (Australian National University)

"Capitalism Imperilled? Business Perceptions in Wartime and Post-War Australia"  120KB

Carol Siri Johnson (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Peter B. Meyer (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

"Technological discussions in iron and steel, 1871-1885"  102KB

Enriquetta Camps-Cura (Pompeu Fabra University), Silvana Maubrigades (Universidad de la Republica de Uruguay), and Natalia Mora-Sitja (Cambridge University)

"Globalization and Wage Inequality in South and East Asia and Latin America: A Gender Approach."  213KB