L’histoire telle que l’aborde le Centre d’histoire économique et sociale François-Simiand consiste en l’analyse des phénomènes économiques et sociaux considérés dans leur durée historique. Cette formulation n’est pas de l’ordre de l’évidence et engage une série d’hypothèses analytiques structurantes. Le Centre a une double ambition : d’abord, promouvoir une approche historique de l’économie ; ensuite, contribuer à désenclaver l’histoire économique pour la rendre pleinement sociale.

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Histoire des inégalités Histoire économique
January 28, 2026
12:30 - 13:45
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
Volha Lazuka
(U. Southern Denmark)
Skills Beget Skills: Evidence from Historical School Reforms Targeting Health and Further Education
Histoire des inégalités
January 7, 2026
12:30 - 13:45
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
Netanel Ben Porath
(Northwestern University)
Democratizing Education? Schooling as an Elite Strategy in Times of Reform
Histoire économique
December 17, 2025
12:30 - 13:45
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
Chenzi Xu
(UC Berkeley)
Branching Out: Capital Mobility and Long-Run Growth
Summary
Co-authors : Sarah Quincy Paper link: https://chenzi-xu.com/docs/QX_Branching.pdf We study the long-run effects of the introduction of bank branch networks on capital mobility and manufacturing productivity by examining a formative but understudied episode in U.S. banking history—the first wave of state-level branching reforms in the 1930s—which by 1970 resulted in over 70% of banking offices operating in branch networks. We combine state-level panel data, county-border discontinuity designs, and newly digitized bank- and branch-level balance sheets to show that while branching generated no broad-based increase in state-level lending or deposits, it created persistent manufacturing productivity gains. We provide direct evidence from novel branch-level balance sheet data that internal capital markets systematically reallocated funds from deposit-rich to capital-constrained s. Finally using a new metric that we call “Deposit Market Access” (DMA), which captures the potential funding available to a locality based on the geographic footprint of bank networks, we show that funding access grew significantly more in capital-constrained areas within branching relative to non-branching states and raised manufacturing productivity. Our findings indicate that the organizational structure of branch banking reduces spatial frictions that hinder capital al to the periphery and creates long-run economic growth.
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Le colonialisme au rabais : l’Empire français, 1930-1962
Denis COGNEAU, Yannick DUPRAZ, Elise HUILLERY, Sandrine MESPLE-SOMPS
2024
Appliquer la loi coloniale : L’impôt sur le sang et l’impôt de capitation en Afrique occidentale française
Denis COGNEAU, Zhexun MO
2024
La réforme de la bourse de Paris et l’antisémitisme (1893-1998)
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur
2024
Inégalités dans l’accès à l’eau à Paris aux 19e et 20e siècles
Lionel Kesztenbaum
2024