Rebecca Stuart
Welcome
I am a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Economic Research at the University of Neuchâtel and ZHAW School of Management and Law, Honorary Professor of Practice in Finance at Queen’s Business School, Research Associate at the Queen’s University Centre for Economic History, and Research Affiliate with the Centre for Economics, Policy and History. In 2024, I visited the Geneva Graduate Institute as a research fellow. Recently, I was awarded a Houblon Norman Fellowship and will be visiting the Bank of England in 2026. My research interests are in monetary and financial history, monetary economics and macroeconomics.
In 2022, I was awarded the Schweizerisches Wirtschaftarchiv (Swiss Economics Archive) Recognition Prize for my archival work on the paper ‘What Drives Long-Term Interest Rates? Evidence from the Entire Swiss Franc History 1852-2020’.
In January 2017, I received the Barrington Medal by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. The Medal recognises ‘promising new researchers in the economic and social sciences in Ireland’.
With Tobias Straumann, I established the Swiss Economic History Circle in 2023. I am also Vice-President of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland and, along with Eoin McLaughlin and Ronan Lyons, organise the Irish Quantitative History Group’s annual meeting.
I completed my PhD at University College Dublin in 2016. Before moving to Neuchâtel, I was an Advisor in the Monetary Policy Division of the Central Bank of Ireland. I joined the Central Bank in 2004, and worked in the Financial Stability Division as an economist and senior economist before moving to the Monetary Policy Division in 2012.
News
10/04/25: My VoxEU column with Stefan Gerlach, “Measurement errors and missing inflation persistence before World War I“ summarises two recent working papers which are available here and here.
20/02/25: Pleased to present my paper with Daniel Kaufmann on “Private money and money market integration: the role of payments infrastructure in 19th century Switzerland“ at the “Gold, Governance, and Economic Growth: Exploring Fiscal and Monetary Cooperation Across Eras” workshop in Geneva.
07/02/25: Delighted to co-organise the second workshop of the Swiss Economic History Circle with Tobias Straumann, which was kindly hosted this year by the Study Center Gerzensee (particular thanks to Nils Herger for facilitating this). The programme and list of participants are available here.
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