Research

Journal Articles


The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach

With Rui Esteves and Seán Kenny

Journal of Economic History (forthcoming

Summarized on VoxEU – CEPR (2021) and The Long Run – Economic History Society (2019) 


European Business Cycles and Economic Growth, 1300-2000

With Stephen Broadberry

Explorations in Economic History (2024)

Summarized on VoxEU – CEPR (2023)


Dating Business Cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700-2010

With Stephen Broadberry, Jagjit Chadha, and Ryland Thomas

Economic History Review (2023)

Covered in the Financial Times


Measuring Inflation Expectations in Interwar Britain

With Finn Meinecke and Solomos Solomou

Economic History Review (2023)

Summarized on The Long Run – Economic History Society (2021) 


Sticky Wages and the Great Depression: Evidence from the United Kingdom

European Review of Economic History (2023)

Summarized on VoxEU – CEPR (2022


An Annual Index of Irish Industrial Production, 1800-1913

With Seán Kenny and Kevin O'Rourke

Economic History Review (2023)

The data is available from the NYU Abu Dhabi Social Science History Lab 

Summarized on VoxEU – CEPR (2021)


The Macroeconomic Effects of Banking Crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938

With Seán Kenny and John Turner

Explorations in Economic History (2021) 

Covered in the Financial Times

Summarized on National Institute of Economic and Social Research (2017)


Uncertainty and the Great Slump 

Economic History Review (2020)

The data is available from Scott Baker, Nick Bloom, and Steven Davis's Economic Policy Uncertainty project

Summarized on The Long Run – Economic History Society (2020) and National Institute of Economic and Social Research (2018)


Irish GDP between the Famine and the First World War: Estimates Based on a Dynamic Factor Model

With Fredrik N G Andersson

European Review of Economic History (2019) 

The data is available from the Bank of England's A Millennium of Macroeconomic Data project


Did Monetary Policy Matter? Narrative Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard

Explorations in Economic History (2018)


Monetary Aggregates for Ireland, 1840–1921

With Seán Kenny

Economic History Review (2018)

Summarized on The Long Run – Economic History Society (2018) 


Book Reviews


Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

Economic History Review (2022)


The National Debt: A Short History

Journal of Economic Literature (2019)


Book Chapter


Exchange Rates, Tariffs and Prices in 1930s’ Britain

With Jagjit Chadha, Solomos Solomou, and Ryland Thomas

In Patricia Clavin, Giancarlo Corsetti, Maurice Obstfeld, and Adam Tooze, eds.

Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace after 100 Years: Polemics and Policy  (Cambridge University Press, 2024)


Working Papers


Banks and the Economy: Evidence from the Irish Bank Strike of 1966

With Seán Kenny and Emma Horgan

CEPR Discussion Paper 18711 (2023)


Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression

With Meredith Paker

CEPR Discussion Paper 18702 (2023)

Summarized on VoxEU – CEPR (2024)


Dissertation


Economic Fluctuations in the United Kingdom, 1750–1938 

Lund University (2018)

Summarized in the Scandinavian Economic History Review (2019)