The candidates for the IEHA dissertation competition, held on Monday 21 August 2006, were as follows:

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN

Jury: Om Prakash (chair), Rolf Walter and Carlos Marichal

Photis Baroutsos, Ionio University, Greece
Tax-farming and Tax-Farmers in 16th Century Crete

Tine de Moor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands - WINNER
For the Profit of the Commonality. Use, Users and Management of Commons in Sandy Flanders, 18th-19th Century

LONG 19TH CENTURY

Jury: Osamu Saito (chair), Leonid Borodkin and Naomi Lamoreaux

Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, University of Barcelona, Spain
Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Spain, 1845-1935

Gerhard Kling, Utrecht University, The Netherlands - WINNER
Mergers during the First and Second Phase of Globalization: Success, Insider Trading, and the Role of Regulation

Petra Moser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Determinants of Innovation. Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs

Masahiro Ogiyama, University of Tokyo, Japan
Women’s Work and their Families: Did Women in Prewar Japan Work for their Families?

20TH CENTURY

Jury: Jacob Metzer (chair), Tamas Szmrecsányi and Gianni Toniolo

Gerben Bakker, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Entertainment Industrialized. The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940

Mária Del Mar Rubio Varas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain - WINNER
Towards Environmental Historical National Accounts for Oil Producers: Methodological Considerations and Estimates for Venezuela and Mexico over the 20th Century

Kirsten Wandschneider, Middlebury College, USA
Central Bank Independence and Policy Performance. Central East Europe 1919-1939

Nikolaus Wolf, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
Economic Integration in Historical Perspective: The Case of Interwar Poland, 1918-1939