What's New:
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My paper with Mauricio Drelichman on
the sustainable debts of Philip II is now forthcoming in the Journal of
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The FAZ just published two articles of mine (on the
logic of the Malthusian world, and on the history
of working hours, in German) as part of their series "Wie wir reich wurden"
(How we became rich).
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Nico Voigtländer and I just published a piece on VOX about our research on the origins of Europe's ascendancy. Both the Economist blog and the German daily Handelsblatt write about it.
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Jonathan Hersh (Wharton) and I have a new version of our working paper on what a cup of coffee or tea should be worth to you... or was, anyway, to early modern Englishmen [VOX piece].
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Congratulations to my PhD student Juan Manuel Puerta, who will be joining the Economics Department at the Central European University in Prague as a tenure-track assistant professor. You can learn more about his research over at CEPR-VOX.
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I will be serving as a panel member for panel SH1 (economics) for the European Research Council (ERC).
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Handelsblatt recently published a profile of me for their weekend supplement (in German).
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Nico Voigtländer and I have two new papers, one on the emergence of the European Marriage Pattern after the Black Death, and the other an overview article of our work on Malthusian dynamics for the AEA in San Francisco.
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The Frankfurter Rundschau published a piece of mine on stock returns over the long run.
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Interview with TV3 (in Spanish) about the historical context of financial crises.
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Manager-Magazin covers my views of the financial crisis, and analogies with 1929 .
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Handelsblatt article about the downturn in capital markets.
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The German business daily Handelsblatt quotes me in a story on the rise and fall of US investment banking over the last 100 years .
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General Motors turned 100 on September 16, 2008. I wrote a small column for the Frankfurter Rundschau asking "Who Ruined GM?".
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My research on the value of connections to the Nazi party (with Tom Ferguson) was recently profiled by "undercover economist" Tim Harford in the Financial Times and on Slate. You can also read a column on VOX-EU, or listen to the audio interview. The research is also discussed on the blogs marginalrevolution and anti-dismal.
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Two of my Ph.D. students, Peter Koudijs and Juan Manuel Puerta, won Young Researcher Prizes at the Economic History Society Conference (EHS) in Nottingham. Peter's research on stock market efficiency has also been profiled in the Financial Times.
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I recently wrote a small piece for the Frankfurter Rundschau on the German attempt to stop speculation in grain markets in 1896.
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My first Ph.D. student (and co-author), Nico Voigtländer, got a job. A great one, actually - he is going to be a tenure-track assistant professor at the Anderson School of Business, UCLA.
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In this summer's edition of CREI's Barcelona Macro Summer School (BMSS), I will give a course on financial crises, credit crunches and crashes.
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Since I am the director of the new M.Sc. in International Trade, Finance and Development, I have started a blog with updates and news.
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"A Century of Stock Market Correlations" [joint with Dennis Quinn] is forthcoming in the American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2008.
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"Debt Sustainability in Historical Perspective: The Role of Fiscal Repression" [joint with Mauricio Drelichman] is forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association, April/May 2008.
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"Institutions and the Resource Curse in Early Modern Spain" [joint with Mauricio Drelichman], forthcoming in Elhanan Helpman (ed.), Institutions and Economic Performance, Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau about hedge fund activism and private equity.
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"Betting on Hitler: The Value of Political Connection in Nazi Germany" [joint with Thomas Ferguson] has now been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics [coverage in Handelsblatt].
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Interview with the Berlin daily TAZ about the subprime mortgage crisis.
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In the fall of 2007, I will be visiting the Economics Department at Princeton University.
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"Our Germans are better than your Germans" -- Chuck Yeager, in The Right Stuff [Handelsblatt ranking of German economists abroad, from 23.4.2007. I ended up first among economic historians].
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Press coverage in Handelsblatt and an interview with the TAZ about my work on hedge funds.
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Jointly with Jaume Ventura, I will be offering a course on Sovereign Debt: Theory, History and Policy in the CREI Barcelona Summer School in Macroeconomics, June 18-22, 2007.
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CREI-CEPR conference on Financial Crises: Past, Present, Future, Barcelona 8-9 June, 2007 [joint with Michael Bordo]
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Interest Rate Restrictions in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714" [joint with Peter Temin], is now forthcoming in the Economic Journal (final version: September 2006).
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"Why England? Demographic Factors, Structural Change and Physical Capital Accumulation during the Industrial Revolution" [joint with Nico Voigtlaender], has now appeared in the December 2006 issue of the Journal of Economic Growth [coverage in New Economist].
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My entry on the South Sea bubble forthcoming in the New Palgrave, ed. Steve Durlauf and Larry Blume.
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I am teaching a CREI Summer Course on Financial Crises, July 10th to 14th, 2006.
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In an article on stockmarket consolidation, the Economist recently highlighted some of my work on OTC trading in equities.
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I'm participating as a senior expert at the CEPR-ESF Summer School on Economic Growth in the Long Run - EUI, Florence, June 25 to June 30, 2006.
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The book on the "Attack of the Locusts" has been published on April 3rd, 2006. Press coverage. Get your copy here. Interview Seifert-Voth in DIE ZEIT [web][pdf].
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A Review Essay about the Cambridge Economic History of England, including a discussion of my contribution on living standards.
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CREI-CEPR workshop on BUBBLES - THEORY, POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES [organized jointly with Eugene White, Rutgers], May 2006. Program.
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In October 2005, I joined the Catalan Institute of Advanced Study (ICREA) as a Senior Research Professor.
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FT front page story about "Life with the Locusts" [book with Werner Seifert], June 25, 2005.
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Peter Temin, Hans-Joachim Voth, Private Borrowing During the Financial Revolution: Hoare's Bank and its Customers, 1702-1724, Economic History Review, forthcoming (final version: June 2005).
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de Volkskrant article on Thomas Ferguson's and my work on the stock returns of Nazi-connected firms [in Dutch]. May 4, 2005.
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New York Times article by Alan Krueger profiling Peter Temin's and my work on bubbles, April 28, 2005.
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Peter Temin, Hans-Joachim Voth, "Banking as an Emerging Technology: Hoare's Bank 1702-1724', Financial History Review, forthcoming. January 2005.
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Alan M. Taylor, Hans-Joachim Voth, CREI-CEPR Workshop on "War and the Macroeconomy", June 29-30, 2005, Barcelona.
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Peter Temin, Hans-Joachim Voth, "Financial Repression in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714". September 2004, revised March 05.
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Peter Temin, Hans-Joachim Voth, "Riding the South Sea Bubble", American Economic Review (2004), December.
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Tim Leunig, Hans-Joachim Voth, 'Comment on Oxley's "The Seat of Death and Terror"'. Economic History Review, forthcoming. This version: March 2005.
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Peter Temin, Hans-Joachim Voth, "Credit Rationing and Crowding Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862", Explorations in Economic History (2005).
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