Chris Colvin

Senior Lecturer, Queen's Management School
Economics
Centre for Economic History

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 4735
Emailchris.colvin@qub.ac.uk

Room 01.024 - Riddel Hall Block 3
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am keen to supervise research projects across the field of economic history, including topics in business history and financial history.

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13 Article
6 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
4 Book/Film/Article review
2 Other contribution
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2021
Death, Demography and the Denominator: Age-Adjusted Influenza-18 Mortality in Ireland
Colvin, C. L. & McLaughlin, E., May 2021, In: Economics and Human Biology. 41, 22 p., 100984.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Great Irish Famine: What are the lessons for policy-makers today?
Colvin, C. L., Doran, A. & Fernihough, A., 26 Apr 2021
Research output: Other contribution

Open Access
2020
Anthropometric History: Revisiting what’s in it for Ireland
McLaughlin, E., Colvin, C. L. & Blum, M., 30 Mar 2020, (Early online date) In: Irish Economic and Social History.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Applied History, Applied Economics, and Economic History
Colvin, C. L. & Winfree, P., 08 Jun 2020, In: Journal of Applied History. 1, 1-2, p. 28-41
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Book review: Arthur van Riel, Trials of Convergence: Prices, Markets and Industrialization in the Netherlands, 1800-1913 (Utrecht University, 2018)
Colvin, C. L. & Wagenaar, H., 19 Dec 2020, In: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis. 17, 3, p. 179–182
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

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Does the Spanish flu offer lessons in how to tackle a pandemic?
Colvin, C. L., 24 May 2020
Research output: Other contribution

Open Access
Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
Blum, M., Colvin, C. L. & McLaughlin, E., Sep 2020, medRxiv: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, (QUCEH Working Paper Series; no. 2017-08).
Research output: Working paper
The Origins of the (Cooperative) Species: Raiffeisen Banking in the Netherlands, 1898-1909
Colvin, C. L., Henderson, S. & Turner, J., 01 Nov 2020, In: European Review of Economic History. 24, 4, p. 749 33 p., 782.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Whose Self-Interest? Social Elites, Religious Competition, and the Rise of Raiffeisen Banks in the Netherlands
Colvin, C. L., 01 Jan 2020, Social Aims of Finance: Rediscovering Varieties of Credit in Financial Archives. Cantaluppi, A., Colchester, C., Costabile, L., Hofmann, C., Schenk, C. & Weber, M. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH), p. 155-180 25 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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2019
Going Dutch: The Management of Monetary Policy in the Netherlands during the Interwar Gold Standard
Colvin, C. L. & Fliers, P., Jul 2019, Queen's University Belfast, (QUCEH Working Paper Series; no. 2019-03).
Research output: Working paper
Organizational Determinants of Bank Resilience: Explaining the Performance of SME Banks in the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s
Colvin, C. L., 07 Mar 2019, In: Business History Review. 92, 4 (Winter 2018), p. 661-690
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2018
An Economist's Guide to Economic History
Blum, M. (ed.) & Colvin, C. L. (ed.), Dec 2018, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 459 p. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
Book Review: Piet A. Geljon, Een Nederlandse Overzeebank: De Nederlandsche Bank voor Zuid-Afrika, 1888-1969 (Uitgeverij Boom, 2017)
Colvin, C. L., 05 Dec 2018, In: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis. 15, 2/3, p. 170 - 172 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

Open Access
Culture and religion
Colvin, C. L., Dec 2018, An Economist's Guide to Economic History. Blum, M. & Colvin, C. L. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 223-229 7 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Economics versus history
Colvin, C. L. & Wagenaar, H., Dec 2018, An Economist's Guide to Economic History. Blum, M. & Colvin, C. L. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 13-20 8 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Industrial revolution and British exceptionalism
Colvin, C. L. & de Pleijt, A., Dec 2018, An Economist's Guide to Economic History. Blum, M. & Colvin, C. L. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 201-210 9 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Introduction, or why we started this project
Blum, M. & Colvin, C. L., Dec 2018, An Economist's Guide to Economic History. Blum, M. & Colvin, C. L. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-10 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2017
Banking on a Religious Divide: Accounting for the Success of the Netherlands’ Raiffeisen Cooperatives in the Crisis of the 1920s
Colvin, C. L., Sep 2017, In: The Journal of Economic History. 77, 3, p. 866-919
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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4 Citations (Scopus)

362 Downloads (Pure)
The past, present and future of banking history
Colvin, C. L., 2017, The Routledge Companion to Business History. Wilson, J. F., Toms, S., de Jong, A. & Buchnea, E. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 89-106
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Women of an uncertain age: quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century
Blum, M., Colvin, C. L., McAtackney, L. & McLaughlin, E., Feb 2017, In: Economic History Review. 70, 1, p. 187-223 37 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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4 Citations (Scopus)

193 Downloads (Pure)
Work Ethic, Social Ethic, no Ethic: Measuring the Economic Values of Modern Christians
Colvin, C. L. & McCracken, M., 02 Aug 2017, In: Journal of Applied Econometrics. 32, 5, p. 1043-1053
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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3 Citations (Scopus)

269 Downloads (Pure)
2015

Book Review: Stijn Claessens, M. Ayhan Kose, Luc Laeven, and Fabian Valencia, eds., Financial crisis: causes, consequences and policy response (International Monetary Fund, 2014)
Colvin, C. L., May 2015, In: Economic History Review. 68, 2, p. 766-767 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
Colvin, C. L., de Jong, A. & Fliers, P., Jan 2015, In: Explorations in Economic History. 55, p. 97-121 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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8 Citations (Scopus)

268 Downloads (Pure)
2014
De bankencrisis van de jaren twintig
Colvin, C. L., Fliers, P. & de Jong, A., 2014, In: Economisch Statistische Berichten. 99, 4689 & 4690, p. 437-440 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Interlocking directorates and conflicts of interest: The Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging, Müller & Co. and the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s
Colvin, C. L., 2014, In: Business History. 56, 2, p. 314-334 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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6 Citations (Scopus)

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Raiffeisenism abroad: why did German cooperative banking fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?
Colvin, C. L. & McLaughlin, E., May 2014, In: Economic History Review. 67, 2, p. 492-516 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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17 Citations (Scopus)

371 Downloads (Pure)
2012

Book Review: David R. Green, Alistair Owen, Josephine Maltby, and Janette Rutterdord, eds., Men, women, and money: Perspectives on gender, wealth, and investment 1850-1930 (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Colvin, C. L., 2012, In: Business History. 54, 4, p. 642-643 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
In antitrust we (do not) trust
Colvin, C. L., 01 Jan 2012, In: Accounting Historians Journal. 39, 2, p. 118-120 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
2009
What determines interbank competition? And why should we care?
Colvin, C. L., 01 Nov 2009, In: Oxonomics. 4, 2, p. 10-20 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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