Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur

Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur is Professor of Economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris School of Economics). He is specialist in financial and monetary history and the Director of the High Quality Data Project for Financial History whose purpose is to build a complete historical database for the French Stock Exchanges from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. His most recent publications include Les marchés financiers français (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007), La crise de 1929 (La Découverte, 2009), A Challenge to Triumphant Optimists ? A New Blue Chips Index for the Paris Stock-Exchange (1854-2007), Financial History Review (2010) with David Le Bris, The Paris financial market in the XIXth century: complementarities and competition in microstructures, Economic History Review (2012) with Angelo Riva, and The Functionning of Bankruptcy Law and Practices in European Perspective (ca. 1880-1913), Entreprise and Society (2013) with Paolo Di Martino.