Rebecca Stuart
Welcome
Welcome to my homepage. My work focusses on monetary and financial history and on monetary economics. Alongside this research, I am a Research Affiliate at CEPR and affiliated with the Centre for Economics, Policy and History. I was recently awarded a Houblon Norman Fellowship, which will take me to the Bank of England as a visiting fellow in 2026.
Since 2020, I have been an Honorary Professor of Practice in Finance at Queen’s Business School and a Research Associate at the Queen’s University Centre for Economic History. In 2024, I spent time as a visiting research fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
My research has been recognised with several awards. In 2022, I received the Schweizerisches Wirtschaftarchiv Recognition Prize for archival work on long-term interest rates in Switzerland. Earlier, in 2017, I was awarded the Barrington Medal by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.
Together with Tobias Straumann, I co-founded the Swiss Economic History Circle in 2023. I am Vice-President of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland and, with Eoin McLaughlin and Ronan Lyons, help organise the annual meeting of the Irish Quantitative History Group.
I currently lecture at the Institute for Economic Research at the University of Neuchâtel and at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. I completed my PhD at University College Dublin and previously worked at the Central Bank of Ireland in both the Financial Stability and Monetary Policy divisions.
News
03/02/26: Looking forward to the 3rd annual Swiss Economic HIstory Circle workshop in the University of Bern on February 6. Many thanks to Eric Strobl and Ulrike Dowidat for facilitating us at the University.
20/11/25: Delighted to be nominated as Fellow in the CEPR’s Economic History programme. Looking forward to participating and contributing!
31/10/25: Pleased to confirm I will be a Houblon Norman Fellow at the Bank of England for 3 months in spring 2026.
The views expressed on this site are mine, and do not represent those of the Central Bank of Ireland or the Eurosystem.