Hans-Joachim Voth is ICREA Research Professorship at the Economics Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Principal areas of research include political and social instability, asset price volatility, the history of sovereign debt, and long-run growth. Professor Voth holds a doctorate from Nuffield College, Oxford, and was educated in Bonn, Freiburg, and Florence. He has held visiting appointments at the MIT, Princeton, NYU-Stern, and Stanford. From 1999 to 2001, he was Associate Director of the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge. He worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co from 1996-98.
Professor Voth has published a book with Oxford University Press, five popular books, and over 50 articles. These have appeared in the AER, the QJE, the EJ, the Journal of Economic History, the Journal of Economic Growth, the European Economic Review, and Explorations in Economic History. The Economist, the Financial Times, the BBC, the New York Times, Financial Times Deutschland, Handelsblatt, FAZ, Vanguardia and De Volkskraat have profiled my research.
In 2008, he was awarded an Advanced Investigator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). He has received a Leverhulme Prize Fellowship, the EHA's Alexander Gerschenkron Prize, the Gino Luzzatto Prize from the European Historical Economics Society, and a Ramon y Cajal research distinction from the Spanish Ministry of Education. I'm a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London) and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (London). In 2011, I was invited to give the Tawney Lecture of the Economic History Society.
