TBA

This course is available on the MA Global Studies: A European Perspective, MSc in Economic History, MSc in Economic History (Research) and MSc in Global History. This course is not available as an outside option.

Students enrolled for this course are expected to have completed the equivalent of undergraduate courses in econometrics and intermediate economic theory.

The course will provide an overview of quantitative approaches in economic history using primarily time series and dynamic techniques. The course will examine the use of quantitative techniques through practical exercises and critical discussion of their application in recent literature. Techniques discussed will include analysis of unit roots, vector autoregressions, and the basics of stochastic growth models, as appropriate. The course is organised on a topic basis, with subjects chosen to illustrate particular theoretical, quantitative or methodological issues.

20 hours of seminars in the LT.

Two presentations during the term; fortnightly quantitative exercises.

Arthur Burns and Wesley Mitchell (1946), Measuring Business Cycles; Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo, eds. (1996), Economic Growth in Postwar Europe since 1945; Robert J. Gordon, ed. (1990), The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change; Timothy Kehoe and Edward Prescott, eds. (2001), Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.

Survey questions on feedback to students may be non-informative because assessed work comes later in the term than the survey.