NRSE Guest Lecture on July 2, 2025

You are invited to join the Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics (NRSE) on Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from 1:15 pm to 2:45 pm. The seminar will be held at the FAU WiSo, Lange Gasse 20 in Room LG 0.423. The guest speaker, Jan Bakker (Bocconi University) will be talking about his publication: „Of Mice and Merchants: Connectedness and the Location of Economic Activity in the Iron Age“ which examines the causal link between trade and economic development during the Iron Age using the expansion of Phoenician maritime trade as a case study. The paper constructs a „connectedness“ measure for coastal and inland locations in the Mediterranean to see how access to trade influenced settlement location and growth.

The Chair of Social Policy thanks the FAU WiSo alumni association, Alumni & Freunde WiSo Nürnberg e.V. for their support of this guest lecture as well as for their generous and on-going support of many other events and projects at the FAU WiSo. Visit the AFWN website for more information and to become a member.