Hans-Joachim Voth (D.Phil, Oxford, 1996), is ICREA Research Professor at the Economics Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is an economic historian with interests in financial markets, long-run economic growth, as well as political risk and macroeconomic instability. Hans-Joachim Voth is a member of CREI, the Centre for Research in International Economics at UPF, a Research Fellow in the International Macro Program at the CEPR (London), and a former member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History. Since 2008, he is serving as editor of the European Review of Economic History.