Hans-Joachim Voth (born March 31, 1968) is a German

economic historian Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and ins ...

. He joined the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

economics faculty in 2014 and has been the Scientific Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society since 2017.

Early life and education

Voth studied at

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to th ...

. He graduated with a Ph.D. in 1996.

Career

Since 2003, Voth was a full professor of economics at

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

. He was also a Research Professor at the

Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, is a foundation jointly promoted by the Catalan Government through its Department of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) ...

. In 2014 he became a professor of macroeconomics and financial markets at the University of Zurich. Voth has researched and written about time management in industrial societies. Voth writes and lectures about the history of economics. His most recent research is on persistence of culture over the long run, sovereign debt in historical perspective, the link between economic crisis and political violence and the Great Depression and the German Interwar Economy."Philip G. Dwyer, ed. Modern Prussian History, 1830-1947"
Reviewed by Anthony J. Steinhoff. ''H-Net Reviews'' Voth is the editor of

Explorations in Economic History ''Explorations in Economic History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of quantitative economic history. It follows the quantitative or formal approaches that have been called cliometrics or the new economic history, applied to any place and ti ...

, an Associate Editor of the

Quarterly Journal of Economics ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan ...

and of the

Journal of Economic Growth The ''Journal of Economic Growth'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in economic growth and dynamic macroeconomics. It was established in 1996 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media.Journal of Economic History ''The Journal of Economic History'' is an academic journal of economic history which has been published since 1941. Many of its articles are quantitative, often following the formal approaches that have been called cliometrics or the new econo ...

. He is a Research Fellow of the

Centre for Economic Policy Research The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non‐partisan, pan‐European non‐profit organisation. Its mission is to enhance the quality of policy decisions through providing policy‐relevant research, based soundly in e ...

and a member of CREI.

References

External links

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