Dr Matthias Morys
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

• MA(Humboldt University Berlin)
• Diploma(Open University of Germany)
• MSc(LSE)
• PhD(LSE)

Departmental roles

• UG Admissions and Open Day Team
• Director of the Centre for Historical Economics and Related Research at York (CHERRY)

Research

Overview

• Monetary and financial history with a special focus on exchange rate regimes, 19th and 20th centuries
• Historical business cycle analysis, 19th century to World War II
• History of European stock exchanges, 19th century to World War II
• Economic History of Central, East and South-East Europe

Publications

Selected publications

Full details of publications can be found at RePEc

Teaching

Undergraduate

First Year

• British Economic and Social History since 1939
• Historical Perspectives on Long Run Economic Growth

Second Year

• Origins of the British Industrial Revolution
• Research Methods in Economic History

Third Year

• Bubbles, Panics and Crashes
• Economic Social History Project