Bio

Carlos Álvarez Nogal is Professor of Economic History in the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Valladolid. His research focuses on the Spanish economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: economic growth, public finance, sovereign debt, financial markets, and international bankers.
He has been a Visiting Associate at Caltech in 2017, and a Visiting at Stanford University, at the Social Science History Institute from 2000 to 2002 and at the Center for Latin American Studies in 2011; at the Paris School of Economics, EHESS, in 2007, 2011, 2012, and 2013; and at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in 2019.
He has led and participated in several international research projects, including one funded under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Program. He was Director of the PhD Program in Economic History and of the Master’s Program in Economic Development and Growth at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
His research has been published in leading specialist journals, including The Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Cliometrica, and Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, among others. His books include El banquero real. Bartolomé Spínola y Felipe IV; Los banqueros de Felipe IV y los metales preciosos americanos, 1621–1665; El crédito de la Monarquía Hispánica durante el reinado de Felipe IV; and Oferta y demanda de deuda pública en Castilla, 1540–1740, Philip II of Spain and the Power of Money.