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Dr Chris Colvin

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Dr Chris Colvin

Dr Chris Colvin

School of Queen's Management School

I am an economic historian with research interests in banking crises, corporate governance, innovation policy, cultural economics, and demographic change. My research mostly addresses issues in the business and financial history of the Netherlands, and the economic and social history of Ireland.

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  • chris.colvin@qub.ac.uk
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Research Interests

I combine economics and history to better understand the performance of firms, industries, economies and societies. Specifically, my expertise is thinking through the short, medium and long term consequences of policy decisions, given the lessons from history. I am open to supervise projects across the field of economic history, broadly defined. Topics of interest include the following:

  • Economics: banking and financial institutions; cooperative enterprises; competition and innovation policy; macroeconomic policymaking process; economics of religion; demographic economics; anthropometrics

  • History: economic history; financial history; business history; penal and prison history; the Netherlands in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; post-Famine Ireland

  • Pedagogy: curriculum and syllabus design; research-led teaching practices

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH)

Public outreach & key achievements

In addition to my research, I lead a pedagogical project which aims to re-insert the study of economic history into the economics curriculum, and help prepare postgraduate students embarking on their PhD research. Thus far the project has resulted in a multi-authored edited volume which shows how, practically, economic history can be used to enhance classroom teaching and learning.

Blum, Matthias, and Colvin, Christopher L., An Economist’s Guide to Economic History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). URL: http://www.blumandcolvin.org


Research students

Current

PhD area Entrepreneurship and Globalisation: Do Social Ties Matter? A Study of Marwaris, Banians and Parsis in India, 1857-1970
Name Pallavi Singh
Years of study 2021-present
Country India
   
PhD area Market Structure, Innovation, and Britain’s Relative Economic Decline
Name Kyle Richmond 
Years of study 2020-present
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Democracy, Growth and Corruption: Essays in American Economic History
Name Paul Winfree
Years of study 2020-present
Country USA
   

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Rules, discretion and industrialisation: The patent system of the Netherlands, 1817-1869
Name Homer Wagenaar
Years of study 2018-2022
Country The Netherlands
Current position Policy Adviser, Belgian Government, Brussels
   
Name Stephen Billington 
Years of study 2016-2019
Country Northern Ireland   
Current Position Lecturer in Economics, Ulster University, Belfast
   
PhD area Industrialisation, Politics and Banking Instability in Late Imperial Russia
Name Nikita Lychakov                                     
Years of study 2014-2018 
Country Russia and USA 
Current Position Research Fellow, Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Russia
   
PhD area Historical Reflections on Religion, Finance and Economic Development
Name Stuart Henderson 
Years of study 2013-2017 
Country Republic of Ireland 
Current Position

Lecturer in Financial Services, Ulster University, Belfast

 


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