The European Historical Economics Society was founded in 1991 to promote European research and training in economic history. The Society is registered with the Charity Commissioners of England and Wales and its aims are stated as: “The advancement of education in European economic history through the study of European economics and economic history, particularly through the comparison and analysis of European economies”.
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EHES Conference 2025
On behalf of the European Historical Economics Society and the local organizing committee, I would like to draw your attention to the EHES 2025 at the University of Hohenheim, which will take place from September 4 to 6, 2025.
The call for papers will be published on November 1, 2024 on ehesconference.org. Acceptance decisions will be sent out by April 1, 2025 at the latest. I hope that many of you will be able to present and discuss the wide range of topics that we study in economic history.
For further information please see this website: ehesconference.org
Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer

The Society publishes the European Review of Economic History since 1996. It is currently published four times a year and has an impact factor (2024) of 1.0/1.5 5-year.
The EREH is a major outlet for research in economic history. Articles cover the whole range of economic history — papers on European, non-European, comparative and world economic history are all welcome. Contributions shed new light on existing debates, raise new or previously neglected topics, and provide fresh perspectives from comparative research. The Review includes…
Working papers
Paper No. 312:
300 Years of Housing Wealth Mobility: The City-State of Basel, 1500–1800
by Jonas M. Geweke, University of Zurich; Niccolò G. Armandola, University of Zurich & Paul Goetz, University of Zurich
September 2026.
Paper No. 311:
Inheritance Customs and the European Marriage Pattern
by Matthew Curtis, University of Southern Denmark; Paula E. Gobbi, Université libre de Bruxelles (ECARES) and CEPR; Marc Goñi, University of Bergen and CEPR & Joanna Haddad, Georgetown University (School of Foreign Service, SFS-Qatar) and Université libre
de Bruxelles (ECARES)
September 2026.
Paper No. 310:
Railways and economic development in a late-developing agrarian economy: Bulgaria,…
