Macroeconomist, Economic Historian, Associate Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics
Joined October 2012
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Felix Ward retweeted
12 May 2023
⭐ VoxTalks Economics NEW EPISODE ⭐
How much of western Europe’s economic transformation was made possible by gold & silver looted from the Americas? New research upends conventional wisdom, Yao Chen @erasmusuni tells @timsvengali @cepr_org.
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Felix Ward retweeted
14 Sep 2022
𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀: 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁
new WP, joint w/ @YChen_ks and @econfward.
We estimate the contribution of American precious metals to West Europe’s growth performance in the early modern period 👇
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30 Apr 2021
New inroads for the quantitative study of early modern monetary history: "Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492-1810" synthesizes data on precious metal mining and their international flow to estimate Spain's early modern money stock. With @YChen_ks and @nunopgpalma.
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30 Apr 2021
Explorations in Economic History, forthcoming; Working paper link: papers.tinbergen.nl/21033.pd…
Felix Ward retweeted
12 Jan 2021
Lesson from financial history: central banks leaning against credit booms with surprise interest rate hikes are more likely to trigger financial crises than prevent them.
Our new research with @econfward and Lucas Ter Steege on vox today. @ECON_tribute
voxeu.org/article/leaning-ag…
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Felix Ward retweeted
11 Nov 2019
What is the real effect of money? @adambrz, @YChen_ks @econward and I we use a natural experiment: Maritime disasters in the Spanish Empire (1531-1810). A one p.p. reduction in money growth caused a 1.3% drop in real output that persisted for several years ehes.org/EHES_170.pdf
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