Dr Gerben Bakker

Gerben Bakker is an economic historian specialised in the long-run analysis of innovation within firms and industries. He has completed four award-winning research programmes on the history of the live entertainment, motion picture and music industries and on the trade in news. He is currently working on the long-run evolution of firms’ research and development outlays and on the role of particular industries in aggregate economic growth.

Research interests

The historical analysis of the interaction between markets, industries, firms and strategies and their impact on economic growth and development.

Read more about Dr Bakker's research and publications on his CV: Dr Gerben Bakker CV [PDF]

Teaching

EH326 Innovation and its Finance in the 19th and 20th Centuries

EH463 The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries

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Download Dr Bakker's CV here [PDF].

Expertise

Creative industries, motion pictures industry, live entertainment industry, music industry, news trade / news agencies, the financing of early-stage R&D; the industry origins of US productivity growth 1899-1941.