Short biography
Hans-Joachim Voth won the Gerschenkron Prize of the EHA for the best dissertation in non-US economic history and the Luzzatto Prize for the best thesis in European economic history. After his doctorate (Oxford, 1996), he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey, and then became a visiting professor in Stanford. In 1998, he joined UPF's economics department, and has since held visiting appointments at MIT, Princeton, and NYU. In 2001, he became one of the first three economists to win a Leverhulme Prize Fellowship for the best scholars in the UK under 36. In 2008, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for a project on asset returns in historical perspective. In 2011 he has won the Explorations Prize for a co-authorized article on serial defaults in Habsburg Spain. Currently he is a research affiliate at CREI, a research fellow at the CEPR, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a trustee of the European Historical Economics Society. Research interests
Joachim Voth studies financial markets, the economic causes of social unrest, long-run growth, and the historical origins of cultural attitudes. He has tried to explain how stock market bubbles form, why share prices fluctuate as much as they do, and if central banks should intervene when stock prices get "too high". He has also looked at the impact of the Black Death on Western Europe's precocious rise to riches, and the historical roots of German antisemitism in the 20th century. Key words
Sovereign Debt. Long-run Growth. Great Divergence. Asset Market Volatility. Political Risk. Economic Performance. Financial Development. Economic Growth. Industrial Revolution. Great Depression. German Interwar Economy.