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The multidisciplinary field of economic history combines theories and methods from economics to answer historical questions about the long-run development of society. 

The Centre for Economics, Policy and History combines economics with history to address global challenges, building a durable research and teaching infrastructure, and engaging in targeted outreach activities. We aim to play a leading role in contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

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Kevin O'Rourke awarded Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Award
On February 19th 2026, CEPH presented the Alice Murrary Distinguished Scholar Award to Professor Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke (CNRS, Science Po), who delivered a lecture titled “From most-favoured-nation to reciprocal tariffs: what is unsurprising about Trump’s tariffs, what is surprising, and why...
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CEPH's comments on proposed changes to Leaving Certificate economics curriculum in Ireland
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) advises the Minister for Education and Youth on curriculum and assessment for early childhood education, for primary and post-primary schools. As part of the broader redevelopment of senior cycle, it is envisaged that a revised specification for...
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CEPH Job Market Candidates
CEPH is excited to bring you our new database of Postdoctoral Research Fellows and PhD Candidates who are entering the job market. Capacity building and fostering a pipeline of new economic historians is one of the central objectives of the Centre, and these new researchers represent the cutting edge...
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Bringing learnings from Ireland to Cyprus
On Friday, October 3, CEPH Associate Director of Research Dr. Marvin Suesse participated in a panel discussion as part of the Cyprus Forum 2025, an annual discussion of Cypriot issues featuring diplomats, policymakers, academics and politicians. The panel, titled “Bridging the divide: The future...
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CEPH Hosts "The CEO: Examining Executive Impact on Business Performance"
On September 18th 2025, CEPH, in association with the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, hosted CEPH Director John Turner and CEPH Associate Michael Aldous as they presented a public talk titled The CEO: Examining Executive Impact on Business Performance. This talk was based on their new book...
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Marvin Suesse wins prestigious Peter Lindert-Jeffrey Williamson Prize
CEPH Associate Director of Research, Prof. Marvin Suesse, has been awarded the Peter Lindert-Jeffrey Williamson Prize for his 2023 book The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present. The Peter Lindert-Jeffrey Williamson Prize is awarded by the Economic History Association...
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New teaching resource uses economic history to provide critical thinking skills to students
Political conflict is high on the world news agenda with rising participation in protests against government policy and unethical practices. A new series of video resources for schools produced by Discover Economics, the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), and the CAGE Research Centre, show...
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Latest research

The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006
Abstract: We construct the first annual market rent and home sales price series for American cities over the twentieth century using 2.7 million newspaper real estate listings. Our findings revise several stylized facts about U.S. housing markets. Real market rents did not fall during the postwar period...
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Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war
Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on labor market outcomes in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in the extent of U.S. tariff hikes on Chinese imports across industries as well as pre-existing industry employment patterns in Vietnam. We find that Vietnamese...
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Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression
Abstract: This paper evaluates how a major policy shift—the suspension of the gold standard in September 1931—affected employment outcomes in interwar Britain. We use a new high-frequency industry-level dataset and difference-in-differences techniques to isolate the impact of devaluation on exporters....
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The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach
Abstract: This paper investigates the causal effects of sovereign debt crises in a sample of 50 defaulting economies between 1870 and 2010. As default is potentially endogenous, we use the narrative approach to identify plausibly exogenous episodes. We find economically and statistically significant...
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Applied Economic History as Practical Historicism: Encouraging Policymakers to Reason with the Past
Abstract: This paper examines how applied history can contribute to policymaking when understood as a way of structuring judgement under uncertainty rather than as a source of policy lessons or predictions. It argues that economic history is particularly well suited to facilitating this role because...
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On the persistence of persistence: Lessons from long-term trends in African Institutions
Abstract: An influential strand of literature within economics and economic history called ‘persistence studies’ argues that low material living standards in African countries today were determined by institutional choices made in the past. However, the lack of consistent annual data on GDP per capita...
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Home-Country Internet and Immigrants' Well-Being
Abstract: This paper documents the effects of home-country internet expansion on immigrants’ health and subjective well-being (SWB). Combining data from the European Social Survey with data on 3G and overall internet expansion, I find that immigrants’ SWB increases following home-country...
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