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Nuno Palma. PhD in Economic History in 2016 by the London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc in Economics in 2007 by the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Licenciatura in Economics in 2005 by Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade de Lisboa. Currently Professor at The University of Manchester and Researcher Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, and CEPR. Published serveral articles in international academic journals. Has received 5 awards and/or honors.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nuno Palma

Citation names

  • Palma, Nuno

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4C10-FDA4-6647
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4614-6518

Addresses

  • Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt 9, 1600-189, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Concluded
 Economic History (Doutoramento)
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
"Harbingers of Modernity: Monetary Injections and European Economic Growth, 1492-1790" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
2007
Concluded
 Economics (Mestrado)
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
"On the growth and welfare effects of stabilization policy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
2005
Concluded
 Ecconomia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
"The Interaction of Business Cycles and Economic Growth: The Case of Growth Hysteresis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16 (out of 20; one of the two best students out of
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/05/01 - 2025/03/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2016/08/31 Postdoc (Research) European University Institute, Italy
2010/12/01 - 2011/12/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2006/02/01 - 2006/05/01 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação sobre Complexidade e Economia, Portugal
2006/02/01 - 2006/05/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/06/01 - Current Full Professor (University Teacher) The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2020/08/01 - 2023/05/31 Associate Professor (University Teacher) The University of Manchester Economics, United Kingdom
2017/08/01 - 2020/07 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2015/09/01 - 2017/08/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
2014/09/01 - 2015/07/01 Assistant (University Teacher) London School of Economics Department of Economics, United Kingdom
2014/09/01 - 2015/07/01 Assistant (University Teacher) London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Economic History, United Kingdom
2013/09/01 - 2015/07/01 Assistant (University Teacher) Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
2011/09/01 - 2013/08/31 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2007/09/01 - 2010/09/01 Graduate Studies Northwestern University, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/02 - 2024/01 Measuring the Great Divergence: A study of global standards of living, 1500-1950
ES/W001578/1
 Economic and Social Research Council
2018 - 2020 Schooling and intergenerational transmission of human capital: evidence from a long historical panel
1819\191513
Principal investigator
The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Ongoing
2013/06/01 - 2016/05/31 Money supply and credit markets in early modern economies
EXPL/EPH-HIS/1742/2012
Researcher
Gabinete de História Económica e Social, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. "The Fruits of El Dorado: The Global Impact of American Precious Metals". 95-131. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-69666-5_4
  2. "American Precious Metals and Their Consequences for Early Modern Europe". 1-20. Springer Singapore, 2019.
    10.1007/978-981-10-0622-7_58-1
Journal article
  1. Hanhui Guan; Nuno Palma; Meng Wu. "The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–1368". The Economic History Review (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13305.
    10.1111/ehr.13305
  2. Alexandra L. Cermeño; Nuno Palma; Renato Pistola. "Stunting and wasting in a growing economy: biological living standards in Portugal during the twentieth century". Economics & Human Biology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101267.
    10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101267
  3. António Henriques; Nuno Palma. "Correction to: Comparative european institutions and the little divergence, 1385–1800". Journal of Economic Growth (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-023-09222-y.
    10.1007/s10887-023-09222-y
  4. António Henriques; Nuno Palma. "Comparative European Institutions and the Little Divergence, 1385–1800". Journal of Economic Growth (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09213-5.
    10.1007/s10887-022-09213-5
  5. Patrick K. O'Brien; Nuno Palma. "Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: The Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–1844". The Economic History Review (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13191.
    10.1111/ehr.13191
  6. Marta Alonso; Nuno Palma; Beatriz Simon-Yarza. "The value of political connections: evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign". Journal of Institutional Economics (2022): https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137422000017.
    10.1017/S1744137422000017
  7. Nuno Palma. "The Real Effects of Monetary Expansions: Evidence from a Large-scale Historical Experiment". The Review of Economic Studies 89 3 (2022): 1593-1627. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdab042.
    10.1093/restud/rdab042
  8. Nuno Palma; Liuyan Zhao. "The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933". The Journal of Economic History (2021): https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205072100036X.
    10.1017/S002205072100036X
  9. "Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810". Explorations in Economic History 81 (2021): 101401-101401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101401.
    10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101401
  10. "Can autocracy promote literacy? Evidence from a cultural alignment success story". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 186 (2021): 412-436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.011.
    10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.011
  11. "Slavery and Development in Nineteenth Century Brazil". Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 2 2 (2021): 372-426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cap.2021.0008.
    10.1353/cap.2021.0008
  12. Patrick K O'Brien; Nuno Palma. "Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act and the regime shift to paper money, 1797–1821". European Review of Economic History (2019): https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hez008.
    10.1093/ereh/hez008
  13. Palma, Nuno. "Reconstruction of regional and national population using intermittent census-type data: The case of Portugal, 1527–1864". Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2019.1666762.
    10.1080/01615440.2019.1666762
  14. Palma, Nuno. "From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850". The Journal of Economic History (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050719000056.
    10.1017/s0022050719000056
  15. Palma, Nuno. "Money and modernization in early modern England". Financial History Review (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0968565018000185.
    10.1017/s0968565018000185
  16. Nuno Palma. "Recensão: A Igreja Católica e o Estado Novo Salazarista". Análise Social {LIII 228 (2018): 805-809. https://doi.org/10.31447/AS00032573.2018228.14.
    10.31447/AS00032573.2018228.14
  17. Palma, Nuno. "Measuring monetary policy deviations from the Taylor rule". Economics Letters (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.03.034.
    10.1016/j.econlet.2018.03.034
  18. Palma, Nuno. "Reconstruction of money supply over the long run: the case of England, 1270-1870". The Economic History Review (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12534.
    10.1111/ehr.12534
  19. Palma, Nuno. "Harbingers of modernity: monetary injections and European economic growth, 1492–1790". European Review of Economic History (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hex025.
    10.1093/ereh/hex025
  20. Nuno Palma. "Sailing away from Malthus: intercontinental trade and European economic growth, 1500–1800". Cliometrica 10 2 (2015): 129-149. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11698-015-0126-1.
    10.1007/s11698-015-0126-1
  21. Palma, Nuno. "The Great Escape? The Contribution of the Empire to Portugal's Economic Growth, 1500-1800 (with Leonor F. Costa and Jaime Reis)". European Review of Economic History (2014):
    10.1093/ereh/heu019
  22. Palma, Nuno. "History of Economics or a Selected History of Economics?". Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2008):
    10.1017/S1042771608000082
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/09/01 - Current Essays in Economic History
Co-supervisor of Nicholas Gachet
 PhD in Economics (PhD)
The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
2019/09/01 - Current Essays in Macroeconomics
Co-supervisor of Carlos Javier Charotti
 PhD in Economics (PhD)
The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Organizer of a conference on "Understanding State Capacity", at the University of Manchester (principal convenor: Nuno Palma; other convenor: Xiaobing Wang). Keynote speakers: Tim Besley, Debin Ma, Mark Koyama and Noel Johnson, Peer Vries, Sevket Pamuk, Patrick O’Brien. (2019 - 2019)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2017/04/01 - 2019/10/01 Executive Committee, Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History (APHES)
Member
 Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social (APHES), Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020/01/01 - Current 14th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017/09 - Current Every academic year since 2017-18 Topics in Economic History (Bachelor) The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
2015/09/01 - 2017/06/30 Academic years 2015-17 Economics (Bachelor) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2019 Several statements and interviews given to newspapers such as Público and Expresso. Público; Expresso

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018/01/01 - Current Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (2041-3335) Cambridge University Press
Distinctions

Award

2016 Stiglitz Prize (1st prize), International Economic Association
2015 Best paper award at the 3rd Macro, Banking and Finance workshop, Pavia, Italy
2014 Best Paper Award, Annual Globalisation and Economic Policy Postgraduate Conference, Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, The University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
2014 First Prize, Legatum Institute’s Charles Street Symposium: Why Do Societies Prosper?
Legatum Institute, United Kingdom
2012 APHES Award (Best paper presented at the annual conference by a young researcher, Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History)
Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social (APHES), Portugal