JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratisation, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931
The Economic History Review, 2025, available here.
French Money Doctors in Spain: Rist, Quesnay, and Mitzakis and the stabilization plans for the peseta 1929-1931 (with Nicolas Barbaroux and Dominique Torre)
Forthcoming at European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
The impact of the First World War on the Spanish money market: new evidence from money market and bank lending interest rates, 1900-1935
Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Volume 40, Issue 1, pp. 67-98, 2022. (available here and online appendix with interest rate index data here)
Ungated version here (and data appendix here).
"Escaping" the Great Depression: monetary policy, financial crises and banking in Spain, 1921-1935
The Journal of Economic History, Gershenkron Prize dissertation summaries, Volume 81, Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 577-614 (available here).
Summary of my PhD dissertation (2019) as one of the three shortlisted theses for the 2020 Alexander Gershenkron Prize awarded by the Economic History Association (EHA).
The limits to lender-of-last-resort interventions in emerging economies: evidence from the Gold Standard and the Great Depression in Spain
European Review of Economic History, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2020, pp.98–133 (available here).
Ungated version here.
Short summary of the paper available at Nada es Gratis, "Trilemas, dilemas y la Gran Depresión en España" (in Spanish).
Article awarded the 2020 Earl J. Hamilton Prize by the Asociación Española de Historia Económica (AEHE)
BOOK CHAPTERS
The political economy of lending of last resort, in Jobst, C. and Ugolini, S., (Eds.) “The Routledge Handbook of the History of Central Banking”, London: Routledge (forthcoming).
El Banque de Catalogne y la compra de la Banca Arnús, in Castro, R. and De La Torre, J., (Eds.) "Crédito y finanzas en España y Francia: una historia comparada". Madrid: Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (forthcoming).
La primera crisis financiera del capitalismo español: 1866, (with Yolanda Blasco) in Sardone, S. and De Lucca, G. (Eds.) “Crisi finanziarie e prestiti forzosi in Italia, Spagna e America Latina (secoli XIV-XIX)”. Bologna: Il Mulino (forthcoming).
Convergence in decay: Primo de Rivera and the new Catalan banking elite (1925-1931), in Cardoso, J.L. and Torreggiani (Eds.) "Giving credit to Dictatorship: Authoritarian Regimes and Financial Capitalism in the Twentieth Century", 2024, London: Routledge. Available here.
El Banco de Cataluña y Eduard Recasens (1884-1939), in Tortella, G. and Quiroga, G. (Eds.) “Bancos y banqueros. Dos siglos de crédito privado en España y sus protagonistas”, 2023. Albolote (Granada): Editorial Comares. Available here.
La didáctica de la letra de cambio: un nuevo enfoque (with Francisco Cebreiro Ares) in Caruana de las Cagigas, L. and Larrinaga, C. (Eds.), “Superando el Covid-19 en las aulas de historia económica", 2022, Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. Available here.
WORKING PAPERS
Politicians, bankers and the Great Depression: the Spanish banking crisis of 1931
Available at European Association for Banking and Financial History Working Paper Series here.
The 1920s bank lending boom in Spain: the role of government debt and central bank liquidity
Available at SSRN, here.
WORK IN PROGRESS
The Central Bank as Safe Haven: evidence from interwar Spain
Bank failures and elite democratic consent: an exploration with individual panel data (with Francesc Amat and Pau Vall-Prat).
The regional dimension of central banking: the evolution of Banco de España's branches, 1875-1936
BOOK REVIEWS
“Historical turning points in Spanish economic growth and development, 1808-2008” by Concha Betrán and M. Ángeles Pons (Eds.), Investigaciones de Historia Econ´omica, Economic History Research, Vol. 18, Nº. 2, 2022, pp. 143-144.
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
"Escaping" the Great Depression: monetary policy, financial crises and banking in Spain, 1921-1935 (The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2019)
Available here.
Awarded the 2021 Santander Financial Institute (SanFi) Ph.D Thesis Prize (https://sanfi.es/tesis-doctorales/)
Shortlisted for the 2020 Alexander Gershenkron Prize awarded by the Economic History Association (summaries of winner and shortlisted dissertations available here)