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PhD student @LSEEcHist interested in the market inefficiencies in Financial History. My research is on Art as a Financial Asset 🎨💵📉

London, England
Joined July 2022
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Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat retweeted
Thrilled to co-organise the first ever LSE-PSE joint Economic History Workshop which will take place soon (29-30th of April) at PSE with an amazing lineup of @LSEEcHist and @PSEinfo students and staff: #econhistory #econtwitter
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Our PhD student @CokicMarco is presenting in the SPEECH seminar on trade of Central and Eastern European countries during the Cold War For the countries of the former Eastern bloc, trade did not lead to specialisation. Instead the different economies became more similar over time
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Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat retweeted
Registration is Open for the 2025 EHS Conference! Early Bird Registration (Deadline 10 February): £95 for Members, £120 for Non-Members Late Reg. (Deadline 21 March): £145 for Members, £170 for Non-Members For further info regarding meals, and to register: ehs.org.uk/conference/2025-r…
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🎁 Its’ that time of the year again! Our department’s Book Secret Santa picks are in, and the lineup is 🔥! Who brought the literary drama? Who picked the existential despair? Here's a thread of all the books our PhDs secretly gifted each other this year... 🧵
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Our visiting student @mmsakharova presented her exciting #project on “#Collusion, Elites and Foreign Entities: The Case of Late #Tsarist #Russia”. A🧵
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Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat retweeted
EHS 2024 Conference, New Researcher Posters: Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat (LSE)@LRitzkat. 'Institutional investors in the art market: The collection of the National Gallery, London 1824-1994'. ehs.org.uk/multimedia/nr-202…
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As a Christmas treat: A #throwback to this year's LSE Economic History PhD book White Elephant game. 🎄 As last year, every player wraps a book and adds it to the pile. Then the unwrapping, stealing and swapping begins. 📚 A thread of books everybody ended up with 🧵 (1/14)
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What’s the relationship between growth of financial sector 💰 and industrial capital? @BRogissart in the recent graduate seminar tries to answer this with his investigation of the Belgian economy from 1835-1913. (🧵1/5)
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Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat retweeted
So happy to share the news about uniting four important art history datasets into a single platform. Bravo to colleagues at ⁦@INHA_Fr⁩ and ⁦@INIST_CNRS⁩! getty.edu/news/a-century-of-…
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What are the limitations of traditional estimates of intergenerational social mobility? In today’s graduate seminar, @ZimingZhu7 (@LSEEcHist) presented his revised estimate of intergenerational occupation mobility in Victorian England. (🧵1/6)
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What can a destructive storm tell us about the importance of infrastructure for trade ⛵ and growth 📈? In a recent seminar 📽📊, returning student @ChristianVedel (@SDUeconhist) presented his research on a 19th-century storm 🌩️ that reshaped the waterways of Denmark. (🧵1/5)
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Apply to present at our Graduate Economic History Seminar this Michaelmas term🗣️📽️📊 Details below