Oriol Sabate Domingo

Investigador programa Beatriu de Pinós

Research group: Economic History and Development (Industry, Business, Sustainability)

Teaching Innovation Groups: Grup d'Innovació Docent en Història Econòmica, Política i Social

Contact Information
Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy and World Economy
Torre 2, despatx 2417 Facultat d'Economia i Empresa Universitat de Barcelona
93 402 19 27
oriol.sabate(a)ub.edu

More Information: ORCID: 0000-0001-6533-8174 (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6533-8174)

Academic training

PhD in Economic History . Facultat d'Economia i Empresa (Universitat de Barcelona) . 2015 . (Ph.D.)

MA in Economic History . Facultat d'Economia i Empresa (Universitat de Barcelona) . 2011 . (Official Master)

MA in Globalization, Development and Cooperation . University of Barcelona and Món 3 . 2006 . (Official Master)

Research interests

State capacity

Finance and public policies

Military conflicts

Participation in Projects (last 6 years)

The politics of state-building: Studying investments in state capacity through legislative debates . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.2021-02907 . Vetenskapsrådet . PI: Agustín Goenaga

Taxing for the Welfare State: Progressivity in the Rise of Social Spending (1910-1970)' Financed by . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.2018-01269 . Vetenskapsrådet . PI: Sara Torregrosa Hetland

Policing the liberal state: the growth and spatial distribution of modern police forces in Europe . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.2019 BP 00039 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Alfonso Herranz Loncan; Oriol Sabate Domingo

The Non-Democratic Origins of State Capacity . 2020 - 2022 . Ref.2019-03174 . Vetenskapsrådet . PI: Jan Teorell

Geografía, capacidad estatal y cambio económico. Una aproximación espacial al desarrollo y sus determinantes en las economías periféricas (siglos XIX-XXI) . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.PGC2018-095821-B-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Alfonso Herranz Loncan; Julio Martinez Galarraga

Relevant publications (Journal Publications and Other publications - last 6 years)

Goenaga, A.; Sabaté, O.; Teorell, J. (2023). The state does not live by warfare alone: War and revenue in the long nineteenth century. The Review of International Organizations, 18, pp. 393 - 418 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1559-7431

Gava, R.; Sabaté, O.; Morales, L. (2022). Financial Regulation Debates in Hard Times: A Comparative Analysis of Insider and Outsider Pressure during the Global Financial Crisis. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 24(2), pp. 159 - 178 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2020.1859931 . ISSN: 1387-6988

Torregrosa-Hetland, S.; Sabaté, O. (2022). Income tax progressivity and inflation during the world wars. European Review of Economic History, 26(3), pp. 311 - 339 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1361-4916

Sabaté, O.; Espuelas, S.; Herranz-Loncán, A. (2022). Military wages and coups d'état in Spain (1850-1915): The use of public spending as a coup-proofing strategy. Revista de Historia Económica, 40(2), pp. 205 - 241 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0212-6109

Conferences and Participations in Congresses (last 6 years)

Teorell, J.; Andersson, P.F.; Sabaté, O. (2021). Investments in Fiscal Capacity Under Dictatorship and Democracy, 1815-2015. (Presentation of communication) . 117th American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition . Seatle . UNITED STATES

Espuelas, S.; Sabaté, O. (2019). Dictators and the Welfare State in Latin America, 1940-1980. (Speech) . WINIR (World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research) Conference . Lund . SWEDEN

Sabate, O. (2019). The politics of ratchet effects: taxation and warfare in the nineteenth century. (Presentation of communication) . Congrés internacional Postguerres/ Aftermaths of War . Barcelona . SPAIN

Sabaté, O.; Peres-Cajías, J. (2019). Fiscal capacity in times of war: Bolivia, Chile, and Peru during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). (Speech) . Sexto Congreso Latinoamericano de Historia Económica CLADHE VI . Santiago de Chile . CHILE

Goenaga, A.; Sabaté, O.; Teorell, J. (2018). War and state capacity in the long nineteenth century. (Presentation of communication) . European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference . Hamburg . GERMANY