Second Conference on German Cliometrics
International und Interdisciplinary Perspectives on German Economic and Social History

List of Papers

  • Ahmadi, Pooyan Amir (Humboldt University of Berlin): Real Economic Activity and the Effects of Monetary Policy during the Great Depression: A German Perspective
  • Baten, Jörg (University of Tübingen), Kling, Gerhard (Utrecht School of Economics) and Kirsten Labuske (University of Tübingen): Foreign direct investment of German companies during globalization and ‘deglobalization’ periods from 1873 to 1927
  • Baten, Jörg (University of Tübingen), Spadavecchia, Anna (University of Reading), Yin, Shuxi(Shantou University) and Jochen Streb (University of Hohenheim): Clusters, externalities and innovation: new evidence from German firms, 1878 to 1913
  • Baten, Jörg (University of Tübingen) and Jacek Wallusch (Poznan University of Economics): Market Integration and Disintegration of Poland and Germany in the 18th Century
  • Baltzer, Markus (European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main) and Jacek Wallusch (Poznan University of Economics): Was Wicksell Right? Inflation, Interest Rate and Innovations in pre-WWI Germany (1878-1913). A Preliminary Report
  • Börner, Lars (Humboldt University of Berlin): Medieval Market Making
  • Broadberry, Stephen (University of Warwick) and Carsten Burhop (University of Münster): Comparative Productivity in British and German Manufacturing before World War II: Reconciling Direct Benchmark Estimates and Time Series Projections
  • Budraß, Lutz (University of Bochum), Scherner, Jonas (University of Mannheim) and Jochen Streb (University of Hohenheim): Demystifying the German „Armament Miracle“ during World War II. New insights from the Annual Audits of German Aircraft Producers

  • Burhop, Carsten (University of Münster): Corporate Governance in the German Empire
  • Casutt-Schneeberger, Julia (University of Zurich): Strikes and Labour Conflicts in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. A Quantitative Comparison
  • Cinnirella, Francesco (University of Munich):On the Road to Industrialization: Standards of Living in Saxony, 18th-19th Century
  • Coppola, Michela (Munich Graduate School of Economics): The biological standard of living in Germany before unification
  • Diebolt, Claude (Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg) and Olivier Darné (Banque de France): Cliometrics of Academic Careers and the Impact of Infrequent Large Shocks in Germany before 1945'
  • Eddie, Scott M.(Trinity College Toronto): “Industrie auf dem Lande”: Industrial enterprises on agricultural estates in East Elbian Germany ca. 1882 - ca.1907
  • Foreman-Peck, James (Cardiff Business School), Hallett, Andrew Hughes (Vanderbilt University) and Yue Ma (Lingnan University Hongkong): Trade Wars and the Slump
  • Lehmann, Sibylle (Trinity College Dublin): Fraud and Terror: Elections in Imperial Germany and the Turn toward Protectionism in the Late 1870s
  • Rathke, Alexander (University of Zurich) and Ulrich Woitek (University of Zurich): Social Capital in Switzerland, 1848-1913
  • Redding, Stephen (London School of Economics), Sturm, Daniel (University of Munich) and Nikolaus Wolf (Free University of Berlin): Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence from German Airports
  • Richardson, Gary (UC Irvine) and Michael McBride (UC Irvine): A Pious and Profitable Mystery: Purgatory, Plague, and Cooperation in Late-Medieval Europe
  • Ritschl, Albrecht (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Samad Sarferaz (Humboldt University of Berlin): Currency vs. Banking in the German Debt Crisis of 1931

  • Ritschl, Albrecht (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Martin Uebele (Humboldt University of Berlin): Stock Markets and Business Cycle Comovement in Germany before World War I: Evidence from Spectral Analysis
  • Rühli, Frank J. (University of Zurich) and Ulrich Woitek(University of Zurich): Economic Development and Biological Standard of Living in Switzerland, 1880-1950
  • Schnabel, Isabel (MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn) and Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University): The „Kipper- und Wipperzeit“ and the Foundation of Public Deposit Banks
  • Schulze, Max-Stephan (London School of Economics) and Nikolaus Wolf (Free University of Berlin): Harbingers of Dissolution? Grain Prices, Borders and Nationalism in the Habsburg Economy before the First World War

  • Schuster, Klaus (University of Munich) and Marco Sunder(University of Munich): Stature and Twist of Fate: Evidence on the Biological Standard of Living from the Lives and Deaths of 19th-Century Bavarian Men
  • Spoerer, Mark (University of Hohenheim): The Laspeyres-Paradox: Tax Overshifting in 19th Century Prussia
  • Streb, Jochen (University of Hohenheim), Baten, Jörg (University of Tübingen) and Shuxi Yin (Shantou University): Technological and Geographical Knowledge Spillover in the German Empire 1877-1918
  • Temin, Peter (MIT): The German Twin Crisis of 1931: Evidence and Tradition
  • Voth, Hans-Joachim (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Betting on Hitler - The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany