13/12/2024 WEast 2024 Dublin workshop
We look forward to the WEast 2024 Dublin workshop taking place on December 13th and 14th 2024: Hidden Connections: Eastern Europe through a comparative
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We look forward to the WEast 2024 Dublin workshop taking place on December 13th and 14th 2024: Hidden Connections: Eastern Europe through a comparative
Religion has played a pivotal role in shaping Ireland’s political economy, especially through community-building and conflict. The division between Christian denominations impacted access
Commodity Price Busts and Financial Stability: Evidence from the 1920s Kilian Rieder is a FWF Schrödinger Prize Fellow at Northwestern University‘s Department of Economics and Paris School of Economics
Shaping growth: different types of human capital and European regional incomes (1870-1950) Gabriele Cappelli is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the
Abstract: This paper documents that large cities played a unique role in women’s economic and social advances in the early 20th century. We first
Superstition, fertility, and modernization: evidence from Japan John Tang is an Economic Historian in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University.
Abstract: Education is a main facilitator of social mobility, and higher education (HE) plays a major role in this. But while returns to HE
Agriculture is pivotal to the story of Ireland, both historically and today. It provided employment, drove exports and dominated policy debates deep into the twentieth
Elections can have profound economic and social consequences. Almost half of the global population went to the polls in 2024, and understanding the potential long-term
A Royal Principal-Agent Relationship: Insights from a Chartered Company Niamh Brennan is Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin and Founder/Academic Director
Land Reform and Access to Credit: The Response of Bankruptcies to Land Enclosures in England, 1750-1830 Karine van der Beek is a senior lecturer
Collateral damage: The financial economics of slavery Peter Koudijs is a Professor of Finance and History at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University
The Wealth Divide: Has Inequality Doomed The 2024 Elections? Are societies on the brink of fracture due to economic inequality? As 2024 shapes up to
Joost Jonker is based at the University of Amsterdam: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/j/o/j.p.b.jonker/j.p.b.jonker.html
Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence Abstract: We examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts.
We hosted the eleventh Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Economic History Symposium on the 13th- 14th June 2024 at Trinity College Dublin. The symposium
Nikolaus Wolf is a Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Department of Economics and the Institute for Economic History at Humboldt-Universität zu
The event took place at the Student Hub Seminar Room 2 (0G.039B) and showcased first year PhD projects from Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity
Skilled Labour Inflows and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from Post-War Germany Abstract: This study uses a novel county-level database on German World War
Professor Ann Carlos gave the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 11th April 2024 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre of the Long
Abstract: This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began
Words Matter: The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements Abstract: This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs)
The Annual RES Conference is the society’s flagship event, consisting of keynote lectures, special sessions and general sessions for paper presentation along with fringe events
Living La Vida Loca? Investing in Latin America 1870-1929 Áine Gallagher is a Lecturer (Education) in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast. https://ceph.ie/people-re/aine-gallagher/
What economic history does the next UK government need to know? Why understanding economic history can be the key to successful government policymaking On Friday
Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and socio-economic effects of Reconstruction in the American South Richard Grossman is Andrews Professor of Economics
Reactionary Utopia: Radicalization and Violence in the Russian Empire Abstract: We examine the influence of left-wing terrorism in imperial Russia between the 1880s and
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