Centre for Quantitative History

Seminars

Seminars

About the Economic History Seminar Series

The Economic History Seminars are jointly organized by the HKU Business School Economics Area Team and the Centre for Quantitative History. The Economic History Seminar Series is now partially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).

Financial Shocks and Portfolio Preferences: Evidence from the Failure of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank

Our in-person Economic History Seminar Series, jointly organized with the Economics Area of HKU Business School, welcomes Gary Richardson to share his latest research on the failure of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank.

What Makes a Great Composer? An Economist’s Answer based on a Millennium of Data

Our in-person Economic History Seminar Series, jointly organized with the Economics Area of HKU Business School, welcomes Karol Jan Borowiecki to share his latest research on composers using a Millennium of Data.