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Members of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Financial History Group (FHG) are drawn from across ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳'s academic departments, reflecting the interdisciplinarity of the group.  

 

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Professor Oliver Accominotti

Director of FHG 
Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: history of the money market; the microstructure of the global financial system; financial crises and their propagation; foreign exchange market; sovereign defaults

Email: o.accominotti@lse.ac.uk


 

 

Faculty Researchers and PhD students

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Dr Pamfili Antipa

Fellow, Department of Economic History

Research interests:  financial and monetary history, central banking, interactions between monetary and fiscal policy, political economy, history of public finances

Email: p.antipa@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Gerben Bakker

Associate Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: the historical analysis of the interaction between markets, industries, firms and strategies, and their impact on economic growth and development.

Email: g.bakker@lse.ac.uk


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Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: portfolio management, Information Asymmetry, Alternative Investing, Art Market, Long-run performance of assets, past financial crises

Emaill.bicalho-ritzkat@lse.ac.uk


Youssef Cassis

Professor Youssef Cassis

Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: the history of financial elites, financial centres, and financial crises. Currently leading an ERC funded research project on “The memory of financial crises. Financial actors and global risk (MERCATOR)”.

Emaily.cassis@lse.ac.uk


Chambers

Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History / Invesco Professor of Financial History, Cambridge

Research interests: Financial market history including long-run asset returns, long-term investing, and historical development of capital markets and asset management

Email: adc53@cam.ac.uk


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Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth

Professor, Department of International Relations

Research interests: Political consequences of financial crises and financialization; Politics of climate-related risks to financial stability and household wealth

Email: j.m.chwieroth@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Jon Danielsson

Reader in Finance, Department of Finance

Research interests: systemic risk; financial risk; financial crisis

Email: j.danielsson@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Leigh Gardner

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research Interests: Economic and financial history of Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries

Email: l.a.gardner@lse.ac.uk


Ghallada

Visiting Fellow, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Monetary regimes, international trade, financial intermediation, trade finance, ICT development, 19th century monetary and financial history

Emailyoussef.ghallada@uclouvain.be


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Professor Charles Goodhart

Emeritus Professor, Department of Finance

Research interests: Central banking, financial regulation, monetary policy. I am interested in both current and historical issues of all these.

Email: caegoodhart@aol.com


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Aristeidis Grivokostopoulos

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Monetary and fiscal history of Greece, the Balkans and Southern Europe, before WWI.

Emaila.grivokostopoulos@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Leslie Hannah

Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Business history, coroporate finance history, history of stock exchanges, corporate governance.

Email: lesliehannah@hotmail.com


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Dr Tehreem Husain

ESRC Fellow, Department of Economic History

Research interests: infrastructure finance, railways, sovereign debt, financial history, networks, text analysis

Email: t.husain@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Jason Lennard

Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: the macroeconomic and financial history of the United Kingdom since the Industrial Revolution.

Email: j.c.lennard@lse.ac.uk


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Yangyang Liu

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Monetary and Banking History; Chinese Economic History; Financial Crises in Emerging Markets

Email: y.liu131@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Nadia Matringe

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting

Research interests: comparative financial history of early modern Northern/Southern Europe; Accounting's role in the development of financial markets; History of organizational forms; History of management thought

Email: n.matringe@lse.ac.uk


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Dr James Morrison

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations

Research interests: History of the global monetary order, particularly the British-led and American-led orders.

Emailj.a.morrison@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Jane Olmstead-Rumsey

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

Research interests: economic growth, firm dynamics, financial intermediation, financial history

Email: j.olmstead-rumsey@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Victoria Paniagua

Assistant Professor, Department of International Political Economy

Research interests: political economy, development, redistribution, inequality, interest group politics, state-building

Emailv.paniagua@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay

Associate Professor, Department of Economic History (on leave 2024-25)

Research interests: financial regulation and its history, accountability, transparency

Email: n.m.postel-vinay@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Albrecht Ritschl

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: International finance and central banking, 1918-1970

Email: a.o.ritschl@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Joan Roses

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Long-run economic growth, rural credit markets, mortgage markets, credit markets integration.

Email: j.r.roses@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Sabine Schneider

Fellow, Department of Economic History

Research interests: International economic history, financial crises, monetary policy, currency unions, history of political economy and economic thought (19th and 20th centuries)

Email: s.a.schneider@lse.ac.uk


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Ziyue (Zoey) Shen

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Chinese Monetary History from 960–1911, covering topics including decentralized finance and multiple uses of currencies.

Emailz.shen19@lse.ac.uk


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Charles Smith

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: the Great Crash and Great Depression.

Email: c.l.smith@lse.ac.uk


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David Teeters

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: early modern capital market structure, history of safe assets, government bond markets, British household capital formation and balance sheets.

Email: d.j.teeters@lse.ac.uk


Turner

Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History / Professor, Queen's Business School (QBS)

Research interests: banking, business, economic, and financial history

Emailj.turner@qub.ac.uk


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Dr Niccolò Valmori

Visiting Fellow, Department of Economic History

Research interests: history of capitalism, history of financial crises, business elites, prosopographic business studies, banking history.

Email: n.valmori@lse.ac.uk


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 Professor Oliver Volckart

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: monetary policies of the Holy Roman Empire, Political Economy of the Holy Roman Empire

Email: o.j.volkart@lse.ac.uk


 

Alumni Researchers

 

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Dr Oliver Bush

Senior Policy Advisor, Bank of England

Dissertation title: Did monetary policymakers step on a rake? A study of monetary-fiscal interactions in the British Great Inflation

Completion year: 2024

Research interests: monetary, fiscal and financial history

Emailoliver.bush@bankofengland.co.uk


Sotelo

Assistant Professor, University of Barcelona

Dissertation title: 'Escaping' the Great Depression: monetary policy, financial crises, and banking in Spain, 1919-1935

Completion year: 2019

Research interests: central banking, financial crises, political economy of finance

Emailenriquejorgesotelo@ub.edu