Clemens Jobst

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Clemens Jobst (* 1977 in Vienna ) is an Austrian economic historian .

Life

From 1996 to 2001 he studied economics at the University of Vienna and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . From 2001 to 2007 he was a research assistant and doctoral student at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . The dissertation dealt with aspects of the financial and banking history of the 19th century. From 2007 to 2015 he was an economist in the Department of Economic Analysis, Oesterreichische Nationalbank . In 2010 he received the Royal Economic Society Prizefor the best article of 2009 in the Economic Journal. From 2016 to 2019 he was lead economist in the field of central bank history and fundamental questions of monetary and central bank policy at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Since May 2019 he has been teaching at the Professorship for Economic and Social History with special focus on the history of the global economy in the 19th and 20th centuries at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna.

His main research interests are the history of money, monetary policy and central banks, financial markets and financial institutions, the economic history of the Habsburg monarchy, international currencies and quantitative and econometric methods in historical studies.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Hans Kernbauer: The bank. The money. The State. National Bank and Monetary Policy in Austria 1816–2016 . Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 3-593-50518-5 .

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