The Centre’s co-director, Stefan Nikolić (Loughborough University), and colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Aleksandar Kešeljević and Rok Spruk, have published a new article in the Journal of Regional Science, titled “Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region-Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia”. Read more about the paper’s key findings in this featured blog post.
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How deep are the economic scars of war? And why do some regions recover from violent conflict more slowly than others? In this blog post, Stefan Nikolić of Loughborough University introduces his latest article for the Journal of Regional Science, co-authored with Aleksandar Kešeljević and Rok Spurk, entitled ‘Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region-Level […]
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From Working Paper to Journal Publication
We are pleased to announce that the Centre’s first Working Paper, “Why Railways Fail: Colonial Railways and Economic Development in Habsburg Bosnia–Herzegovina,” has been published in the Journal of Economic Development. The paper examines the economic consequences of colonial railway construction, offering new insights into infrastructure and development in South-East Europe. The article is published […]
The University of Vienna invites applications for fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies. The Department of Economic and Social History, warmly encourages applications in economic history. The deadline for applications is 2 March 2026, 14:00 CET. For more details: https://careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/praedoc-ssh
From 9 to 11 July 2025, the Centre for South-East European Economic History hosted its inaugural Summer School in Quantitative Economic History at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. The event brought together 30 students and early-career researchers from 12 institutions across 10 European countries, reflecting the growing interest in the application […]
In this blog post, Stefan Nikolić of Loughborough University introduces his latest article for the Economic History Review, entitled ‘Spatial inequality in prices and wages within a late-developing economy: Serbia, 1863-1910’. Does price convergence always go hand in hand with wage convergence? Historical data from Serbia suggests not. In the fifty years before the first […]