Call for papers: The focus of the seminar is the 'market', a central topic of economic and social history since the epoch of Adam Smith. The presence and spread of market mechanisms has been often seen as the hallmark of modernity and a main support of growth both in pre-modern and modern economies. The current and rising interest in historical research to the working of the institutions stimulated attention towards the spread of market mechanism and the obstacles by non-market forms of exchange. The wider and wider introduction of more sophisticated statistical methodologies within the field of economic history has recently contributed to revitalize the interest for market formation and integration.

1. Oleg Rusakovskiy (Tübingen), Market forms and regulations within a rural economy in the Thirty Years' War
2. Sándor Gyarmati (Szeged), Bardejov, a North-Hungarian linen weaving centre and its market distribution during the 15th century
3. Anna Paulina Orlowska (Kiel), For Want of a Nail: Analysis of the Hanseatic Merchant Johan Pyre in the Context of the Hanseatic Trade of the 15th Century
4. Alexis David Litvine (Cambridge), Between economic ideas and popular representation of the economy: commercial travellers in nineteenth-century Britain and France
5. Ling-Fan Li (Cambridge), Western European exchange market integration around 1400: evidence from Datini's documents
6. Rezia Krauer (Ghent), Urban Investors in the Countryside, The Land Market in the Region of St. Gallen (Switzerland) in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
7. Sabrina Stockhusen (Kiel), Market conditions of wholesale and retail trade in Lübeck at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century– The ‘Krämer' Hinrik Dunkelgud and his account book (1479-1517)
8. Nicolas De Vijlder (Ghent), Public or private interests? Antwerp's public officials and their investement patterns during the seventeenth and eighteenth century
9. Oliver Buxton-Dunn (Firenze IUE), From the customs' houses, to the Queen's Customs. Extension and limits of new customs taxation in late-Tudor England
10. Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi (Athens), Market control and business change in long-distance trade at the end of the 18th century: the Chiot Greek case
11. Atiyab Sultan(Cambridge) Institutional Change in Colonial Punjab (1900-1947)
12. Stefania Montemezzo (Verona), Institutions for Long Distance Trade. The case of Venice in the second half of the XV century
13. Wouter Ronsijn (Ghent), The household, the labour market or the commodity market? Enabling the division of labour within proto-industries: the case of the Flemish linen industry during a period of decline (first half of nineteenth century)
14. Adrian Leonard(Cambridge), Risk, uncertainty, and market pricing: marine insurance in peacetime and war
15. Joep Schenk (Rotterdam), The role of traders in the international iron ore market: Wm.H. Müller & Co. and the Ruhr industry 1870-1914

• Catia Antunes (Leiden University)
• Marco Belfanti (University of Brescia)
• Bruno Blondé (University of Antwerp)
• Jessica Dijkman (Utrecht University)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)