Metal in Motion: Receipt Flows at the Bank of Amsterdam, 1711-91

In this session of the International Macro History Online Seminar, join us for a presentation on "Metal in Motion: Receipt Flows at the Bank of Amsterdam, 1711-91" by Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University ), William Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) and Nathan Sussman (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR).

Stephen Quinn is an associate professor of Economics.  He has been at Texas Christian University (TCU) since 1995. Dr. Quinn’s scholarship focuses on money and banking in Early Modern England and Netherlands.  His is currently researching the Bank of Amsterdam.  His past publications have appeared in The Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, and the Cambridge University Press. Dr. Quinn teaches courses in Financial History; the Great Depression; Money and Banking; and Law and Economics.

William Roberds is an economist emeritus of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Before his retirement, he was a research economist and senior adviser on the macroeconomics and monetary policy team. His areas of responsibility include basic research and policy analysis. Dr. Roberds's research focuses primarily on the fields of payment systems, macroeconomics, and econometrics. His research has been published in leading economic journals as well as in Federal Reserve System publications. He is also an occasional contributor to the Atlanta Fed's Policy Hub: Macroblog, which provides commentary on economic topics including monetary policy, macroeconomic developments, and the Southeast economy. Dr. Roberds joined the Bank in July 1987. Previously he was an assistant professor at Brown University (1982–84) and an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1984–87). From March through May 1999, he was a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan. He is a member of the American Economic Association. 

Nathan Sussman is Full Professor of International Economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Director of the Institute's Centre for Finance and Development. He was Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and in the integrated Philosophy, Economics, and Political Science Programme (PEP) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the Director of the Research Department at the Bank of Israel and a voting member of the Monetary Policy Committee. His fields of expertise are monetary and financial economic history. He has written numerous articles and co-authored a book on emerging markets and financial globalisation. Professor Sussman earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was Full Professor and Economics Department Chair at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and served as Chairman of the Economics Department, Director of the Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University.

IMHOS seminars

The spring 2025 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from February, 12th to May, 28th 2025 and will take place virtually bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 5:00pm (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with an extra optional 15 minutes for further discussion.

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The International Macro History Online Seminar (IMHOS) is a joint initiative of the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a consortium of universities and institutions: Banque de France, Centre for Economic Policy Research, European Association of Banking History, European Historical Economics Society, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Judge Business School Cambridge, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, King’s College London, London School of Economics, NYU-Abu Dhabi, Paris School of Economics, Princeton University, Queen’s University Belfast, Rutgers University, Sciences Po, Santa Clara University, Solvay Business School, Universitat de Barcelona, University Carlos III Madrid, University College London, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, University of Geneva, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Yale University.