Hans-Joachim Voth

About

I hold a UBS Foundation Professorship at the Economics Department, University of Zurich, and serve as Scientific Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society. My areas of specialization include long-run growth, cultural economics, and economic and financial history. I have won several international prizes for my research. In 2022, I was elected to a Fellowship of the Econometric Society. In 2025, I served as President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES). I have also been one of the joint managing editors of the Economic Journal, and editor of Explorations in Economic History, and of the European Review of Economic History. I also served (until 2021) as an associate editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

I have published three academic books with OUP and Princeton UP, five popular books, and over 50 articles in leading journals including the AER, QJE, JPE, RESTUD, the Journal of Finance, PNAS, JEEA, AER:Insights, EJ, RESTAT, AEJ:Applied, and all leading economic history journals. Principal areas of research include long-run economic growth, the history of sovereign debt, causes and consequences of the Nazi Party's rise to power, and the economic history of the Industrial Revolution. My research has been profiled in The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, FAZ, NZZ, Le Monde, El Pais, the Guardian, and other major international media outlets.