Research Areas

Current Projects

• Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie, Principal Investigator - 'Human Well-Being and the "Industrious Revolution": Consumption, Gender and Social Capital in a German Developing Economy, 1600-1900' Five-year project: 2008-2012 Start-date: 1 January 2008 About the Project (English) | About the Project (German)
• "Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition", a research project with Sheilagh Ogilvie as principal investigator. A project sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.
• "Understanding Colonial Australia". Pricipal Investigators - Dr Deborah Oxley, Professor David Meredith; Associate - Sara Horrell

The following areas of research illustrate the variety of issues covered by members of the Centre.

Consumption, well-being, and the 'Industrious Revolution'

Women’s role in European economic and demographic development

Institutions and economic development

Causes of the divergence between different European economies 1500-1800

The colonisation of Australia: economy, households and welfare

The household and the labour market in nineteenth-century Britain

Nineteenth-century tax data and service-sector productivity

Electricity diffusion and economic growth

Effective exchange rates 1870-1913: movements and economic growth in gold- and silver-standard countries

Episodic economic growth in Japan

Long-run effects of exchange rate choices

The political economy of international finance

Trade costs and international integration

Microeconomics of fertility and mortality, 1550-1914

Serfdom in central and eastern Europe, 1500-1918

Guilds and economic development from the medieval period to industrialization