Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca in Storia Economica

Antwerp, 29-30 June 2026 In June 2026 the University of Antwerp and the Paris School of Economics host a workshop exploring the investment of middle-class savings between the second half of the nineteenth-century and the Second World War.We are looking for papers that deal with the expansion of savings banks and other financial institutions competing…

Pre conference at Banque de France 11 to 12 March 2024 and session at the WEHC in Lund, 28 July to 1 August 2025 International central bank cooperation is a politically sensitive issue, which is why official accounts of international central bank cooperation outside more formal bodies such as the BIS and the IMF are…

Banque de France, Paris, 10 March 2025 In this interdisciplinary project, we explore alternative ways of viewing money and try to integrate conceptual framework of different views on money. To achieve this goal, we examine the history of money as “a system to share/communicate the value of things”. To launch this project, we are planning…

International Conference on Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective, 27-28 March 2025 | St Hilda’s College | University of Oxford International commerce has always relied on the ability to transfer funds across space and time but the evolution of the mechanics and strategies of cross-border payments remains somewhat murky. The main route for global payments in…