I hold a UBS Foundation Professorship at the Economics Department, University of Zurich. I am a Fellow of the Econometric Society and serve as Scientific Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society.
My research examines long-run economic growth, the history of sovereign debt, the causes and consequences of the Nazi Party’s rise to power, and the economic history of the Industrial Revolution. It has appeared in four of the top five journals in economics — over fifty articles in the AER, QJE, JPE, RESTUD, PNAS, APSR, the Journal of Finance, and leading field journals — alongside three academic books with Oxford and Princeton University Press and five popular books.
My work has been profiled in The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other major international media.