Research

Work in Progress

Hegemon, What Hegemon? The Elusive Spillovers of British and American Monetary Policies before WW2

With Paul Bouscasse, James Cloyne and Kilian Kamkar

Policymaker Expectations and Fiscal Policy

With Martin Ellison

Defence Dividends: Long-Run Evidence from the United Kingdom

With Will Hotten, Paolo Surico and Ryland Thomas

The Volunteer Army of the Unemployed?

With Meredith Paker

Over by Christmas? Insurance Market Expectations of the Duration of WWI

With Paul Bouscasse

Was Fiscal Stimulus Tried in the UK Great Depression?

Journal Articles

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

With Seán Kenny and Emma Horgan

Economic History Review (forthcoming)

Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression

With Meredith Paker

Journal of Economic History (2026) 

The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach

With Rui Esteves and Seán Kenny

Journal of Economic History (2026) 

European Business Cycles and Economic Growth, 1300-2000

With Stephen Broadberry

Explorations in Economic History (2024)

Dating Business Cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700-2010

With Stephen Broadberry, Jagjit Chadha, and Ryland Thomas

Economic History Review (2023)

Measuring Inflation Expectations in Interwar Britain

With Finn Meinecke and Solomos Solomou

Economic History Review (2023)

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

European Review of Economic History (2023)

An Annual Index of Irish Industrial Production, 1800-1913

With Seán Kenny and Kevin O'Rourke

Economic History Review (2023)

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

With Seán Kenny and John Turner

Explorations in Economic History (2021) 

Uncertainty and the Great Slump 

Economic History Review (2020)

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) 

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)

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 (2024)

Dissertation

Economic Fluctuations in the United Kingdom, 1750–1938 

Lund University (2018)