Handbook of Cliometrics

Claude Diebolt is CNRS research professor of economics at the University of Strasbourg. He is the founder and the editor in chief of the journal Cliometrica. He is also the coeditor of the Handbook of Cliometrics and was the organizer of the 8th World Congress of Cliometrics. Claude Diebolt is the current president of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS Section 37, Economics and Management Science) and the president of the Association Française de Science Economique. He is the founding president of the Association Française de Cliométrie and a former chair of the board of trustees of the Cliometric Society in the United States. On March 6, 2019, Claude Diebolt received the 2018–2019 Sarton Medal for his research in Cliometrics. Michael Haupert is professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and executive director of the Economic History Association. Previously, he served in the same position for 8 years for the Cliometric Society. His research interests are the economic history of the sports and entertainment industries and the history of the economic history discipline. He has authored two books on the history of the entertainment industry in America and coauthored a book on the economics of baseball in the 1920s. His research has also appeared in Cliometrica, The Journal of Economic History, and The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, among others.

Family reconstitution data: a cliometric view.- History of cliometrics.- Growth theories.- Cliometric approaches to war.- GDP and convergence in modern times.- Cliometrics and the great depression.- Financial Systems.- Cliometric approaches to international trade.- Time series.- The industrial revolution: a cliometric perspective.- The cliometric study of financial panics and crashes.