Welcome to Queen's University Centre for Economic History

Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH) is an interdisciplinary research centre based at Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast. It brings together faculty and graduate students working on the economic study of the past from across the university and elsewhere.

News

Gyorky Ranki Prize
QUCEH Research Affiliate Bruce Campbell has been awarded the Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize for an Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe at the 2017 meetings of the Economic History Association in San Jose for his book The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World.
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Graduate Study Opportunities

MSc in Economics
Queen's Management School hosts an MSc programme in Economics. The programme has an Economic History track, and offers all the necessary training to pursue a PhD in Economic History. Applicants must hold a prior degree in economics or a related subject, and have achieved at least an upper second class degree classification.
More details are found here.
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New Research from Queen's University Belfast

• Alan Fernihough's new QUCEH Working Paper examines the child quality-quantity trade-off in early twentieth-century England and Wales.
• Chris Colvin's new Journal of Economic History paper on the impact of the Protestant/Catholic divide in 1920s Dutch banking is now available on early view.
• Matthias Blum's latest paper with Claudia Rei, which investigates the health and human capital of Holocaust refugees, has been accepted for publication by European Review of Economic History.
• Matthias Blum's new paper with Nick Hanley and Eoin McLaughlin, entitled 'Accounting for Sustainable Development Over the Long Run: Lessons from Germany', has been accepted by German Economic Review.
• ​Matthias Blum's forthcoming Economic History Review ​paper with Karl-Peter Krauss uses data on eighteenth-century German emigration to investigate the accuracy of age heaping as a measure of numeracy.
• ​Matthias Blum and Alan de Bromhead have a new QUCEH working paper that looks at social mobility in Germany during the Nazi regime.
• Alan de Bromhead and Alan Fernihough's (with Markus Lampe and Kevin H. O'Rourke) new working paper on interwar British trade policy is available as a QUCEH working paper. 
• John Turner's new working paper on the development of company law, which is forthcoming in and Edward Elgar Press handbook, is available as a QUCEH working paper. 
• William Quinn, in his second QUCEH working paper on the British bicycle mania, explores the relationship between technological innovation and speculation.
• Gareth Campbell, Christopher Coyle and John Turner's new publication in the Journal of Financial Stability, which tracks British banking instability over the long run, is available for download here.
• William Quinn has a new QUCEH working paper on the British Bicycle Mania of the 1890s, in which he asks the question: can limits to arbitrage explain asset price reversals?
• Michael Aldous's new publication in Business History sets out to understand the role of brokers and auctioneers in the nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian trade.
• A new QUCEH working paper by Graeme Acheson, Gareth Campbell and John Turner examines the origins of investor protection under the common law.
• Gareth Campbell, Meeghan Rogers and John Turner have a new QUCEH working paper entitled 'The Rise and Decline of the UK’s Provincial Stock Markets, 1869-1929'.
• John Turner, Qing Ye and Clive B. Walker have a new QUCEH working paper which explores the impact of media coverage on stock returns in nineteenth century London.'
• A new QUCEH working paper by Stuart Henderson employs a variety of economic and financial indicators to examine the relationship between Roman Catholicism and Irish development in the Post‑Famine period.
• In a forthcoming article to appear in Economic History Review, available as a QUCEH working paper, Matthias Blum, Chris Colvin, Laura McAtackney and Eoin McLaughlin investigate human capital accumulation in Ireland with novel data sources and methodologies.

More research by QUCEH members