Rui Esteves will hold the Visiting Professorship for Financial History at Goethe University’s House of Finance in 2025
Rui Esteves, Professor of International Economics and International History at the Geneva Graduate Institute since 2018 and CEPR Economic History Program Director, completed his undergraduate and master’s studies in Economics at the Universidade do Porto in Portugal. In 2006 he obtained his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California Berkeley. Since then he has held academic positions at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, and the University of Oxford, not to mention numerous visiting scholar appointments in France, the US and Australia, among others. He has received several awards and grants and has shared his academic expertise not only as a sought-after (keynote) speaker at a vast number of international academic conferences but also as an editor and referee of renowned economic history journals.
During his stay as a visiting professor at the House of Finance in 2025, Rui Esteves will hold a seminar on “The Streets of Finance: Markets and Regulation” which will be embedded in the two master programs “Money & Finance” as well as “International Economics and Economic Policy” at the Department of Economics of Goethe University.“
On 30 January 2025 Rui Esteves will give a Public Lecture at Goethe University on "Microstructure and Information Disclosure in the 19th Century Global Capital Markets”. Also, during his stay as a visiting professor he will be organizing a conference on debt markets and risks taking place on 17 June 2025 at the House of Finance.
Rui Esteves will be the ninth holder of the Goethe University Visiting Professorship of Financial History. In the context of this professorship, distinguished international experts in banking and financial history are invited to share their research insights and methods with researchers, students, practitioners and the public in Frankfurt. Cooperation partners are the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE at the House of Finance and the Institute for Banking and Financial Research. Previous Visiting Professors include Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University (2015), Caroline Fohlin, Emory University, Atlanta (2016), Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich (2017), Harold James, Princeton University (2018), Barry Eichengreen, University of Berkeley (2019) and Catherine R. Schenk, Oxford University (2022), Eugene N. White, Rutgers University (2023) and Marc R. Flandreau (2024). The visiting professorship, endowed in 2014 by Metzler Bank and the Edmond de Rothschild Group on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Goethe University, has been funded by Metzler Bank and the Friedrich Flick Förderungsstiftung since 2017.
