Dr Claudia Jefferies
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About
Overview
Dr Claudia Jefferies (née de Lozanne), received her doctoral degree from the WWZ, University Basel, Switzerland in 1997. Her main fields of research are monetary and financial history. She has published on money and inflation in early modern societies. She is an active member of the community of researchers in the area of financial and monetary history. She organised an international conference at City University in April 2010.
Dr Jefferies has practitioner experience in banking and industry analysis and she teaches international trade, international finance, business economics and strategy.
Dr Jefferies is also a participant of the Damin research group, based in Paris.
Memberships of committees
- Board member, The History of Economic Thought Society, 2018 - present
Teaching
- Undergraduate modules in International Finance and International Trade
- Postgraduate modules in Business Economics and Economics of Business Strategy
Research
Research interests
- Financial and monetary history
- Economic and business history
- History of economic thought
Publications
Publications by category
Books (3)
- Pieper, R., Jefferies, C.D.L. and Denzel, M. (2019). Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic Digital Approaches and New Perspectives. Springer Nature. ISBN 9783030238940.
- Jefferies, C.D.L. (2013). Sources and Studies on Spanish 17th- Century Monetary History. Moneta. ISBN 9789491384196.
- Lozanne, C.D. (1997). Geldtheorie und Geldpolitik im frühneuzeitlichen Spanien. Verlag Fur Entwicklungspolitik. ISBN 9783881566919.
Chapters (10)
- Jefferies, C. (2025). Delving into the effectiveness and limits of economic rhetoric in 17th-century Spain On the use and misuse of tropes in monetary treatises (1600–1642). In Repapis, C. and Myrogiannis, S. (Eds.), Economics and Semiotics (pp. 93-110). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781040389416.
- Jefferies, C. (2023). A Parable and Ancient Fables: Shaping the Governance of Mining Activities and the Silver Trade in Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century New Spain. In Hyden-Hanscho, V. and Stangl, W. (Eds.), Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond Identities, Polities and Glocal Economies (pp. 225-243). Palgrave Mc Millan. ISBN 9789811984174.
- Jefferies, C.D.L. (2019). Some Determinants of Local Exchange Rates and in Early Modern Mexican Mining Sites, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. In Pieper, R., Denzil, M. and Jefferies, C.D.L. (Eds.), Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic (pp. 211-230). Palgrave.
- Jefferies, C.D.L. (2016). Mining, market volatility and exchange rate management in early modern Mexico: Zacatecas and Guadalajara 1578-1669. In Depeyrot, G. and Flynn, D. (Eds.), From Underground to end- users: Global monetary history in scientific context (pp. 83-89). Wetteren: Moneta.
- Jefferies, C. (2016). Mining, market volatility and exchange rate management in early modern Mexico: Zacatecas and Guadalajara 1578-1669. In Depeyrot, G. and Flynn, D. (Eds.), From underground to end-users: Global Monetary History in Scientific Context (pp. 83-89). Belgium: Moneta. ISBN 9789491384622.
- Jefferies, C. (2015). Selective adoption of mining and minting technological innovations in Habsburg colonial Mexico: Centralist policy or exchange rate management strategy? In Depeyrot, G. (Ed.), Documents and studies on 19th c. monetary history: Mints, Technology and Coin Production (pp. 149-160). Belgium: Moneta. ISBN 9789491384592.
- Jefferies, C.D.L. (2014). La crise des vellón : théories et politiques monétaires en Castille durant la première moitié du dix-septième siècle. Les Pensées monétaires dans l'histoire - L'Europe, 1517-1776 (pp. 743-784). Classiques Garnier.
- Jefferies, C. (2013). Silver production in 17th- century Spanish America: a preliminary analysis of its volatility, trajectory and possible effects on the Castilian monetary system. In Depeyrot, G. (Ed.), Three Conferences on International Monetary History (pp. 315-324). Belgium: Moneta. ISBN 9789491384240.
- Jefferies, C. (2013). The role of copper money within the dynamics of sovereign debt and the perception of unsound fiat money in 17th- century Castile. In Depeyrot, G. (Ed.), Three Conferences on International Monetary History (pp. 91-102). Belgium: Moneta. ISBN 9789491384240.
- Jefferies, C.D.L. Les Pensées monétaires dans l'histoire - L'Europe, 1517-1776. Paris: Classiques Garnier. ISBN 9782812428630.
Journal article
- Khan, S.-.E.-.R., Asteriou, D. and Jefferies, C. (2023). Can FDI explain the growth disparity of the BRIC and the non-BRIC countries? Theoretical and empirical evidence from panel growth regressions. Economic Modelling, 124, pp. 106306-106306. doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106306
Thesis/dissertation
- Jefferies, C.D.L. La crisis española del siglo XVII y su implicación en algunos aspectos de las finanzas reales de Nueva España. (Undergraduate dissertation)