# Economic History Seminar

##  Economic History Seminar

## Spring 2026

### Seminar Times & Location:

Fridays, 2:15 - 3:30pm
KMC 7-191(7th floor)

To join the mailing list, please contact Amanda Schwab [ams9893@stern.nyu.edu]((ams9893@stern.nyu.edu)

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###  February 13th "Network Competition and Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from News Agencies"

Quan Le (Harvard Business School)

[Link to paper](https://qlquanle.github.io/newswires.pdf)

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###  February 27th "Legislating Longevity: State Public Health Laws and Mortality in the Early Twentieth Century"

Martin Saavedra (Rutgers University)

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###  March 13th "Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution"

Reka Juhasz (University of British Columbia)

[Link to paper](https://www.nber.org/papers/w32667)

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###  April 17th "Innovation and the Medieval Church"

Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University)

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