The Centre for South-East European Economic HistoryWe 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 […]
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 […]