Economic and business history studies economic, industrial, and organisational change over the long term using theoretical and empirical tools from other branches of economics and adjacent social sciences. Scholars at the Department of Economics and Business conduct research in a number of areas, including:
- Business history, and especially the rise of Spanish big businesses
- Economic history of European integration, and Spain's relationship with the European Community
- Latin American economic history, growth, and modernisation studies
- Output and productivity measurements since the Industrial Revolution
- Asset price volatility and political uncertainty during the Great Depression
- The German interwar economy
- The development of European financial centres
- Labor compensation and unemployment in historical perspective
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