2025 | News
2025
Ever wondered about the lasting effects of social disasters on stock market participation or the impact of cultural traits during crises? How have extraordinary natural occurrences influenced executive orders or how has female education shaped historical economic trajectories? These research inquiries were among those explored at the Eighth Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024), organised by the Asian Historical Economics Society and hosted by the Centre for Quantitative History (CQH) of HKU Business School, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the International Society for Quantitative History.