Rebecca Stuart
Welcome
Welcome to my homepage. My work focusses on monetary and financial history and on monetary economics. I am an Honorary Professor of Practice in Finance at Queen’s Business School, a Research Affiliate at CEPR and the Centre for Economics, Policy and History. I currently lecture at the Institute for Economic Research at the University of Neuchâtel and at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. In 2026, I completed a three-month Houblon Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England and I spent time as a visiting research fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2024.
My research has been recognised with several awards. In 2022, I received the Schweizerisches Wirtschaftarchiv Recognition Prize for archival work on long-term interest rates in Switzerland. Earlier, in 2017, I was awarded the Barrington Medal by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.
Together with Tobias Straumann, I co-founded the Swiss Economic History Circle in 2023. I am Vice-President of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland and, with Eoin McLaughlin and Ronan Lyons, help organise the annual meeting of the Irish Quantitative History Group.
I completed my PhD at University College Dublin and previously worked at the Central Bank of Ireland in both the Financial Stability and Monetary Policy divisions.
News
29/06/26: Happy to announce that my paper with Daniel Kaufmann on “Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth-century Switzerland“, has been published by the Economic History Review.
25/04/26: Very pleased that my paper with Seán Kenny, “Quarterly GDP for Ireland since 1950”, has been accepted for publication by Explorations in Economic History. Read it here.
20/11/25: Delighted to be nominated as Fellow in the CEPR’s Economic History programme. Looking forward to participating and contributing!
The views expressed on this site are mine, and do not represent those of the Central Bank of Ireland or the Eurosystem.