Hans-Joachim Voth
UBS Professor of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets, Department of Economics, University of Zurich
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Hans-Joachim Voth (D.Phil, Oxford, 1996), holds the UBS Chair of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the Economics Department, Zurich University. He is an economic historian with interests in financial history, long-term persistence and growth, as well as political risk and macroeconomic instability. Hans-Joachim Voth is a Research Fellow in the International Macroeconomics Program at CEPR (London), a member of the Royal Historical Society, a joint Managing Editor of the Economic Journal, an Editor of Explorations in Economic History, and an Associate Editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, European Economic Review, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Economic History, as well as in three academic books (including, in 2014, Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II, Princeton University Press).
Our research on the economic history of war
The Three Horsemen of Growth: Plague, War and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe
Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth. CEPR Discussion Paper no. 7275. Media coverage: Vox.
State Capacity and Military Conflict
Nicola Gennaioli and Hans-Joachim Voth. CEPR Discussion Paper no. 8699.
From Welfare to Warfare: New Deal Spending and Patriotism During World War II
Bruno Caprettini, Fabio Schmidt-Fischbach and Hans-Joachim Voth. CEPR Discussion Paper no. 12807.
Patronage and performance: Selection and success in the Age of Sail
Guo Xu and Hans-Joachim Voth. CEPR Discussion Paper no. 13963. Media coverage: Vox.