Rui Esteves is a specialist in monetary and financial history with a particular interest in international finance, institutional economics and public finance. His research and teaching covers fields such as the history of the global financial system, financial crises, sovereign debt, payments and capital flows, financial markets micro-infrastructure and corruption in public office. From 2025, he will take over the visiting professorship for Financial History at the House of Finance at Goethe University.
Rui Esteves has been Professor of International Economics and International History at the Geneva Graduate Institute and Program Director for Economic History at CEPR since 2018. After graduating in Economics from the University of Porto, he obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Berkeley in 2006. Since then, he has held academic positions at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada and Oxford University, as well as visiting professorships in France, the USA and Australia, among others. In addition to numerous awards and grants for his research, Esteves is a sought-after keynote speaker at international scientific conferences and an editor and reviewer for renowned scientific journals.
Seminars and public lectures
During his stay as a visiting professor at the House of Finance in 2025, Rui Esteves will hold a seminar on “The Streets of Finance: Markets and Regulation” which will be embedded in the two master programs “Money & Finance” as well as “International Economics and Economic Policy” at the Department of Economics of Goethe University.
On 30 January 2025 Rui Esteves will give a Public Lecture at Goethe University on "Debt Consolidations in History”. Also, during his stay as a visiting professor, he will be organizing a conference on debt markets and risks taking place on 17 June 2025 at the House of Finance.
Already the 9th visiting Professorship
Rui Esteves will be the ninth holder of the Goethe University Visiting Professorship of Financial History. In the context of this professorship, distinguished international experts in banking and financial history are invited to share their research insights and methods with researchers, students, practitioners and the public in Frankfurt. Cooperation partners are the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE at the House of Finance and the Institute for Banking and Financial Research.
Previous Visiting Professors include Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University (2015), Caroline Fohlin, Emory University, Atlanta (2016), Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich (2017), Harold James, Princeton University (2018), Barry Eichengreen, University of Berkeley (2019) and Catherine R. Schenk, Oxford University (2022), Eugene N. White, Rutgers University (2023) and Marc R. Flandreau (2024).
The visiting professorship, endowed in 2014 by Metzler Bank and the Edmond de Rothschild Group on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Goethe University, has been funded by Metzler Bank and the Friedrich Flick Förderungsstiftung since 2017.
