Forschungsseminar

Prof. Dr. Bart Wilson (Chapman University   )

THE PROPERTY SPECIES

Dr. Joel Huesler (Universtity Bern   )

France’s Economic Wound:

How the Huguenot Exodus Shaped Regional Development

Prof. Dr. Guido Neidhöfer (Türkisch Deutsche Universität  & ZEW Mannheim)   

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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Braun (Universität Bayreuth   )

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Prof. Dr. Nico Voigtländer (UCLA   )

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Prof. Dr. Tobias Straumann (Universität Zürich   )

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Prof. Dr. Philipp Ager (Universität Mannheim   )

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Senior Lecturer Dr. Thilo Huning    (University of York)   

Constructive Destruction? How Allied Bombing facilitated Germany’s Rise to Riches

Prof. Jacob Weisdorf, PhD    (Sapienza University of Rome)   

The effect of mechanisation on labour: Evidence from the diffusion of steam power   

Ass. Prof. Nadia Matringe, PhD    (London School of Economics)   

The art of distrust in long-distance trade (1400-1800)

Ass. Prof. Nina Boberg-Fazlic    (University of Dortmund)   

Isolating Tuberculosis: The Role of Sanatoria in the Historical Mortality Transition

Prof. S. Emre Çekin, PhD    (Türkisch Deutsche Universität / Türk-Alman Üniversitesi)   

Televised Inflation: Measuring TV News Coverage and Its Effect on Household Expectations

Prof. Saumitra Jha, PhD (Stanford GSB)   

[in Großer Hörsaal]

Markets under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets   

Prof. Dr. Francesco Cinnirella    (University of Bergamo)   

Books Go Public: The Consequences of the Expropriation of Monastic Libraries on Innovation

Jordi Caum Julio, PhD    (University of Manchester & Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development)   

Famines and labour returns in colonial India

Dr. Andreas Link    (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)   

The Fall of Constantinople and the Rise of the West   

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Woitek (University of Zurich)   

New Estimates of Daily Wages in Switzerland, 1750 - 1850

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canceled

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf    (Humboldt University Berlin)   

Suez   

Matías Cabello (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg)   

Divided into progress! How Europe's political and religious fragmentation spurred creativity: 1100-1900   

Prof. Sébastien Pouget, PhD    (University of Toulouse, Toulouse School of Economics)   

The Development of Corporate Governance: Toulouse Companies from the Middle Ages onward   

Prof. Dr. Jörg Baten (University of Tübingen)   

„So many insights ...”: New archaeological and big data strategies for long-term economic studies of the past 12,000 years

Senior Lecturer Li Chen, PhD    (University of Gothenburg)   

Designing Heaven's Will: The job assignment in the Chinese imperial civil service   

Dr. Sumit Deole    (University of Trier)   

Economic Preferences and the Self-selection of Immigrants   

Prof. Dr. Alexander Moradi    (University of Bozen-Bolzano)   

Narratives from European-African encounters

Ass. Prof. Alain Naef, PhD    (ESSEC Business School, Paris)   

Swiss money, Portuguese ships and enslaved people from Angola: the Purry, Mellish Devisme company

Prof. Eric Chaney, PhD    (University of Oxford)   

Modern Library Holdings and Historic City Growth   

Ass. Prof. Domenico Rossignoli, PhD    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)   

The Cross and the Sword. Religious Identity, Land Ownership, and Conflict: Evidence from Six Centuries of English History

Prof. Kirsten Wandschneider, PhD (University of Vienna)   

Currency Wars and Monetary Regime Disintegration

Prof. Dr. Jochen Streb (University of Mannheim)   

How the West was Settled. The Location Choice of East German Companies Migrating to West Germany after World War II   

Ass. Prof. Felix Schaff, PhD    (European University Institute Florence)   

Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy

Prof. Martin Ivanov, PhD    (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”    and Center for Advanced Study CAS Sofia   )

Did Living Standards Actually Improve Under State Socialism? Evidence From Bulgaria 1924-1989

Stefan Nikolić, PhD    (Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University)   

Spatial inequality in prices and wages: Town-level evidence from the First Globalisation   

Prof. Mario A. Maggioni, PhD (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)   

The Elusive Quest: what I learned (and what I published) about experiments dealing with development and growth

Prof. Nuno Palma, PhD    (University of Manchester)   

Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution

Prof. Georgios Chortareas, PhD (King’s College London)   

Equilibrium Real Interest Rates and Monetary Policy (Mis)perceptions

Prof. Jordi Domenech, PhD    (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)   

Land Reform and Rural Voting in Interwar Europe: Evidence from Spain before Civil War

Dr. Chris Colvin    (Senior Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast)   

Mind Your Language: The Decline of the Irish Language in the Nineteenth Century

Dr. Richard Franke    (University of Bayreuth)   

Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?   

Ass. Prof. Jordan Adamson, PhD (University of Leipzig)   

An economic model of ethnic maps and the endogenous unit area problem   

Dr. Lukas Kornher    (ZEF, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn)   

The aid-nutrition link - does targeted development assistance related to food systems matter?   

PD Dr. Tobias Jopp (University of Regensburg)   

On the Short-Term Economic Costs of the Spanish Influenza in Germany: A Quantification Attempt for the Year 1918

Dr. Cédric Chambru    (University of Zurich)   

The Dynamic Consequences of State-Building: Evidence from the French Revolution   

(updated version Nov. 2022)   

Mariusz Lukasiewicz, Ph.D. (University of Leipzig)   

Finance, Investment and Decolonisation in Nigeria: Early market formation and participation on the Lagos Stock Exchange, 1957-1967

Dr. Felix Kersting    

(Humboldt University Berlin)   

Industrialization, capital accumulation, and wealth inequality

Prof. Debin Ma, Ph.D.   ,

(University of Oxford)   

Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th Century China and Japan (online)

Prof. Kıvanç Karaman, Ph.D.   

(Boğaziçi University Istanbul   )

Prices and Real Exchange Rates in Europe: The Long Run View (online)

Prof. Dr. Markus Lampe   

(Vienna University of Economics and Business)   

Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection (online)

Prof. Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer, PhD   

(University of Hohenheim)   

Regional stock exchanges to alleviate information asymmetries? Evidence from 120 years of going public in Germany (online)

Dr. Matthias Mertens   

(IWH Halle Institute of Economic Research)   

European firm concentration and aggregate productivity   

Ass. Prof. José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, PhD (Yale University)   

Playing Checkers in Chinatown   

Prof. Dr. Alexander Moradi   

(University of Bozen-Bolzano)   

Ethnic Homogenization and Public Goods: Evidence from Kenya’s Land Reform Program

Prof. Dr. Markus Ludwig (University of Braunschweig)   

Bronze Age Trade, Elite Formation and Civilization

Prof. Dr. Mark Spoerer (University of Regensburg)   

State power, state capacity and economic growth: Germany in the "long" 19th century

Prof. Dr. Gerben Bakker (London School of Economics)   

Valuing Hollywood’s Film Libraries: Technology Shocks and Copyright Portfolios in the Motion Picture Industry, 1948 – 2018

Ass. Prof. Jordan Adamson, PhD (University of Leipzig)   

Trade and the rise of ancient Greek city-states

Prof. Mark Koyama, PhD (George Mason University)   

Shipwrecked by Rents   

Dr. Alexander Klein (Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Kent)   

Was Domar Right? Serfdom and Factor Endowments in Bohemia   

Dr. Florian Ploeckl (Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Adelaide)   

National rules, regional differences? Regional productivity, efficiency, and political preferences in the case of the German Reichspost.

Prof. Yasuo Takatsuki (Kobe University)   

Microstructure of the First Organized Futures Market: The Dojima Security Exchange from 1730 to 1869   

Dr. Vincent Bignon (Advisor to the General Director of Research and International Relations, Banque de France)   

The Toll of Tariffs: Protectionism, Education and Fertility in Late 19th Century France   

Esther Sahle, PhD (University of Münster)   

The Diaspora-State: Resolving commercial conflict in the British Atlantic

Dr. Charlotte Bartels, DIW Berlin   

The distribution of wealth in Germany, 1895-2018   

Ass. Prof. Dr. Christian Ochsner, CERGE-EI Prague   

Mobilizing history   

Prof. Paul Sharp, PhD, University of Southern Denmark   

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister, University of Münster   

The economic geography of Germany, 1500-1850: Effects of market integration and state formation on the size and spatial distribution of cities

Prof. Saumitra Jha, PhD (Stanford GSB)   

Swords into Bank Shares    

Prof. Jared Rubin, PhD (Chapman University)   

Political Legitimacy and the Institutional Foundations of Constitutional Government: The Case of England

• Dr. Samad Sarferaz, ETH Zürich & KOF    

• Dr. Fabian Wahl, University of Hohenheim    

• The Fetters of Inheritance? Equal Partition and Regional Economic Development    

• Prof. Dr. Carsten Burhop, University of Bonn    

• Prof. Dr. Christiaan van Bochove, Radboud University Nijmegen    

• Thilo Albers, PhD, Humboldt University Berlin    

• Prof. Dr. Battista Severgnini, Copenhagen Business School    

Senior Lecturer Dr. Thilo Huning    (University of York)   

Constructive Destruction? How Allied Bombing facilitated Germany’s Rise to Riches

Prof. Jacob Weisdorf, PhD    (Sapienza University of Rome)   

The effect of mechanisation on labour: Evidence from the diffusion of steam power   

Ass. Prof. Nadia Matringe, PhD    (London School of Economics)   

The art of distrust in long-distance trade (1400-1800)

Ass. Prof. Nina Boberg-Fazlic    (University of Dortmund)   

Isolating Tuberculosis: The Role of Sanatoria in the Historical Mortality Transition

Prof. S. Emre Çekin, PhD    (Türkisch Deutsche Universität / Türk-Alman Üniversitesi)   

Televised Inflation: Measuring TV News Coverage and Its Effect on Household Expectations

Prof. Saumitra Jha, PhD (Stanford GSB)   

[in Großer Hörsaal]

Markets under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets   

Prof. Dr. Francesco Cinnirella    (University of Bergamo)   

Books Go Public: The Consequences of the Expropriation of Monastic Libraries on Innovation