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Presents an abstract of the paper `Establishing a Monetary Union: The United States's Experience,' by Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith and Warren E. Weber, presented at the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the study `Possession is Nine Points of the Law: Land Auctions, Squatting, and the Preemption Acts,' by Mark T. Kanazawa, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `The Regional Distribution of Patents in the United States: Invention and Uneven Regional Development,' by Ross Thomson, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `Patents and the Paths of Innovation in American Railroading, 1846-1900,' by Steven W. Usselman, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Income Growth and Inequality: Considering the New York Housing Censuses, 1855-1875,' by Lee Soltow, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Price and Quantum Indices of the United States-Cuba Trade, 1821-1898,' by Linda K. Salvucci and Richard J. Salvucci, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the study `Down and Out or Up and Out? The Occupational and Financial Mobility of Nonpersisters in the Antebellum United States,' by Joseph P. Fernie, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

The article informs that the sixty-fourth annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in San Jose, California from 10-12 September, 2004. Many of the sessions will be focused on the theme "Technological Change and Economic Growth in History." The program committee encourages submissions that provide a historical or interdisciplinary perspective on key issues in technological change, social and economic innovation, productivity, and economic growth. Graduate students are encouraged to attend. Complete information regarding the program schedule and other details are provided in the article.

This article analyzes President Herbert Hoover's role in causing wage rigidity during the onset of the Great Depression, through two conferences in which he encouraged business leaders to maintain high wages. New data on the set of firms and trade associations attending these conferences provides evidence that Hoover's conferences delayed the cuts in hourly wages at a small number of large firms, although this result may have been due to characteristics of the particular industries the firms represented. In a cross-section of industries, there is no evidence that industry representation at the December conference affected the timing of wage cuts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]