Robert Yee

Lecturer and Postdoctoral Associate

Yale University

robert.yee [at] yale.edu


CV

My full CV is available upon request.

EDUCATION

2023

PhD, History, Princeton University

Dissertation: “The Rise of Expert Opinion: The Bank of England and Interwar Economic Governance, 1914–1940”

Awarded the 2024 Thirsk-Feinstein Prize for best dissertation (Economic History Society)

2020

MA, History, Princeton University

2017

BA, Economics and History (Highest Honors), Vanderbilt University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2025–

Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University

2023–25

David Richards Junior Research Fellow in Economic History, Wadham College, University of Oxford

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“The Nazi Financial Order: Banking Law and the Credit Supervisory Office in Germany and Austria,” Central European History 58, no. 4 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938925101155

“Chancellor Churchill: The Treasury, Party Politics and the Making of Budget Day, 1924–1929,” Contemporary British History 39, no. 1 (2025): 23–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2024.2391368

“Stability in Numbers: Central Banks, Expertise and the Use of Statistics in Interwar Europe,” Contemporary European History 33, no. 3 (2024): 1038–1059. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777323000048

“A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s,” Business History Review 97, no. 1 (2023): 93–125. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768052300003X

“Reparations Revisited: The Role of Economic Advisers in Reforming German Central Banking and Public Finance,” Financial History Review 27, no. 1 (2020): 45–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565019000258

Book Review

“Anne L. Murphy, Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England (Princeton, 2023),” Business History Review 98, no. 1 (2024): 345–347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680524000229

Other Publications

With Kurt Schuler and Theresa Williamson, “The Washington Consensus in History: An Interview with John Williamson,” Center for Financial Stability: Papers in Financial History (January 2020). https://centerforfinancialstability.org/speeches/John_Williamson_Interview.pdf

“The Bank of France and the Gold Dependency: Observations on the Bank’s Weekly Balance Sheets and Reserves, 1898–1940,” Studies in Applied Economics, no. 128 (October 2018). https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2018/10/Bank-of-France-1-1.pdf

“Bretton Woods, Old and New: An Interview with Richard N. Cooper,” Center for Financial Stability: Papers in Financial History (September 2016). https://centerforfinancialstability.org/research/Cooper_Yee_0916.pdf