The Plenary Conference of 2019 opened the second funding period of the PP 1859. The new researchers presented their projects, and coordination and common work were discussed. See below for a detailed programme:
Programme
Wednesday, 09th 10 October 2019
13:30 registration and coffee
14:00 welcoming (Nützenadel/Streb)
14:15 SPP 1859: themes, methods and cooperation (Nützenadel/Streb)
15:45 coordination und central funding, informationen from DFG (Köhler)
16:30 coffee break
project presentation
SECTION I: Investment, Risk and Financial Institutions
17:00 More than a Feeling. Media Sentiment as a Mirror of Investors´ Expectations at the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1872-1930 (Burghardt/Spoerer)
17:30 Country Insurance across 200 years: the Role of Experiences and Expectations (Trebesch)
18:00 Belief Foundations and Waves of Optimism and Pessimism: Response to Historical Trends, Disaster Risk and Personal Experiences (Faia)
18:30 The Transformation of Money. A Transatlantic History of 'Money Illusion' during the Gold Standard Era, 1870s-1920s (Teupe)
19:00 reception/buffet (forum of the Humboldt Graduate School)
Thursday, 10th October 2019
SECTION II: Macroeconomic Expectations and Saving
09:00 Heterogeneity in macroeconomic expectations: the role of individual historical experiences, local conditions, and socio-economic characteristics (Conrad/Dovern/Krüger)
09:30 Exploring the experience-expectation nexus in macroeconomic forecasting using computational text analysis and machine learning (Döpke/Fritsche/Pierdzioch)
10:00 Personal Experience and Savings Behaviour (Lehmann-Hasemeyer/Streb)
10:30 The Anticipation of Expectations - Financial Institutions and the observation of saving behaviour in West Germany and the United States (Hesse)
11:00 coffee break
SECTION III: Entrepreneurial Expectations and Economic Development
11:30 Managing Expectations. Consultancy and Corporate Decision-Making in Germany after 1965 (Nützenadel/Schöttler)
12:00 Determinants and effects of business expectations in Germany after 1980 (Enders/Müller)
12:30 Lunch-break (forum of the Humboldt Graduate School)
13:30 Sky-High expectations - how politics, crisis and knowledge transfer shaped the multinational airline Air Afrique, 1961-1990 (Huber)
14:00 “The industry of the world´s optimists." Tourism as a development strategy in Eastern Africa, 1950s-early 1990s (Lerp)
SECTION IV: Public Policy and Economic Expertise
14:30 Creating Expectations (Kriwoluzky/Schularick)
15:00 Origins and Consequences of Regional Identity. Evidence from Historical Differences in Political Instability and Fragmentation among German States (Wahl)
15:30 coffee break
16:00 Competition as the subject of forecasts. Forming expectations of the European Commission as a supranational regulatory authority for merger control in transnational markets, 1958-2003 (Pahlow)
16:30 Expecting Limits and Limiting Expectations - Economic Expertise, Environmental Policy and Consumption, 1970-2000 (Graf)
17:00 Discussion time: research outlines and formats
(with keynotes by Louis Pahlow and Alexander Kriwoluzky)
19:00 Dinner (Restauration Berlin 1840, Neue Bögen am Hackeschen Markt, Am Zwirngraben 8-10, 10178 Berlin)
Freitag, 11.10.2019
09:00 Changing Tables. A workshop-brunch about cooperation (Alex Brasserie, Panoramastraße 1A, 10178 Berlin)
12:00 End of the event