Professor Andrew Seltzer

 Andrew Seltzer is an economic historian with an interest in 19^th and 20th century labour markets. His current research uses banking personnel and payroll records from the Union Bank of Australia to test hypotheses about internal labour markets and the impact of public policy.

Andrew Seltzer holds a B.A. from Colby College and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of Illinois. Prior to coming to Royal Holloway he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Sydney and a lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

More about my research here.

My CV here.

 Teaching

EC2214 International Economic History

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EC1103 Economics Workshop

An Introduction to Economic History here

What is Personnel Economics? here

EC3311 Labour Economics

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Recent Papers (under construction)

Takeovers and Implicit Contracts during the First Great Merger Wave: Evidence from the Australian Banking Industry

Internal Labour Markets in the Australian Banking Industry: Their Nature and Recent Decline

Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Contracts (with Steffen Huck and Brian Wallace)

My friend Robert Dixon at the University of Melbourne has written a history of thought quiz that is excerpted here.

Some Cool Links

Economics - Economic History Resources, Economics Resources, Job Openings for Economists, JSTOR, The Institute of Historical Research

Fun Stuff - Cycling News, Cycling in the Alps, Groucho Marx, Jonathan Richman, History of the Blues, The Best Store in the World, A Quick Game of Chess, Cryptozoology