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Economic History Initiative
CEPR is pleased to announce a new initiative in economic history, which aims to make the CEPR the focal point for cliometric research in Europe. There are several reasons for embarking on such an initiative now.
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Long run growth has once again become a central issue in macroeconomic research, and intellectual exchanges between growth theorists and economic historians have become more frequent.
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Both theorists and applied economists are becoming increasingly interested in the development and impact of institutions, and economic history provides the ideal laboratory for economists interested in such issues.
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There is a need for more ‘presentist’ economic history in Europe, which uses history to speak to contemporary debates about globalization, the international financial architecture, deflation, and other pressing policy issues.
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As European integration progresses, the demand for a coherent account of European economic history, rather than a series of disjointed national histories, becomes more urgent; as does the need for more systematic comparative research.
The aim of the Economic
History Initiative is to facilitate interaction between quantitative economic historians and the rest of the economics profession in Europe. To this end, we will seek funding for regular seminars; for more targeted conferences on specific themes of interest to both economists and economic historians; for training activities that will foster a more cliometric and presentist approach to European economic history; and for a network of researchers who could develop a consistent, long run, pan-European data base.
In the meantime, CEPR’s economic history page on its website will provide links to economic history discussion papers and researchers.
The coordinators of the Economic History Initiative are
Stephen Broadberry and
Kevin
O'Rourke. They welcome suggestions from all CEPR researchers about other activities which the initiative could engage in.
These are the Research Fellows
and Research Affiliates
appointed under the Economic History Initiative, on the following research projects. The following
discussion papers relate to this initiative.
CEPR
Researchers Appointed to the EH Initiative
Acemoglu, Daron
Altug, Sumru G
Bayoumi, Tamim
Botticini, Maristella
Broadberry, Stephen (EH Coordinator)
Carlin, Wendy
Crafts, Nicholas
Eichengreen, Barry
Escosura, Leandro Prados de la (Associate)
Faini, Riccardo
Flandreau, Marc (Meeting Series Coordinator)
Galor, Oded
Gylfason, Thorvaldur
Hatton, Tim
Irmen, Andreas
Keller, Wolfgang
Kelly, Morgan
Moav, Omer
Obstfeld, Maurice
O'Rourke, Kevin (EH Coordinator)
Portes, Richard
Ritschl, Albrecht
Robinson, James
Rodrik, Dani
Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Shiue, Carol Hua
Taylor, Alan
Toniolo, Gianni
Vines, David
Voth, Hans-Joachim
Williamson, Jeffrey
Wyplosz, Charles
Zanden, Jan Luiten van (Associate)
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