RESEARCH INTERESTS European monetary and financial history History of city-states History of Swiss multinational companies LATEST PUBLICATIONS "Still tied by golden fetters: the global response to the US recession of 1937-38", Financial History Review 19 (2012), pp. 21-48. (with Scott Urban) "Financial Crisis and Political Change: The Great Depression (1929–1933) in the United States in Historical Perspective", in Christian Suter and Mark Herkenrath (eds.), World Society in the Global Economic Crisis, Münster: Lit, 2012, pp. 183-198. "Overvalued: Swedish Monetary Policy in the 1930s", University of Zurich, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 58 (December 2011) / CESifo Working Paper No. 3692 (December 2011) (with Alexander Rathke and Ulrich Woitek). Fixed ideas of money:
small states and exchange rate regimes in 20th century Europe, Studiesin Macroeconomic History, Cambridge and New York:
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University Press.
(Cambridge and New York, 2010) => Reviews: eh.net, Financial History Review, Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review "Business cycles and economic policy, 1914-1945", in Stephen Broadberry and Kevin O'Rourke (Eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, Volume 2, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 156-180. (with Albrecht Ritschl) (Cambridge and New York, 2010) (pdf) "Krisenerfahrung und Deutungsmacht": Die Währungspolitik Schwedens und der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert", in: Bernhard Löffler (Hg.), Die kulturelle Seite der Währung: Europäische Währungskulturen, Geldwerterfahrungen und Notenbanksysteme im 20. Jahrhundert, Historische Zeitschrift: Beiheft 50, herausgegeben von Lothar Gall, München: Oldenbourg, 2010, S. 199-223. "Rule rather than exception: Brüning's fear of devaluation in comparative perspective", Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2009, pp. 603-617. "A pioneer of a new monetary policy? Sweden's price level targeting of the 1930s revisited", European Review of Economic History, Volume 13, Issue 2, August 2009, pp. 251-282. (with Ulrich Woitek) (pdf) Der vergessene Wirtschaftskrieg: Schweizer Unternehmen im Ersten Weltkrieg, Zürich: Chronos, 2008. (herausgegen mit Roman Rossfeld) (Rezension hsozkult) |  Curriculum Vitae tobias.straumann@econ.uzh.ch PD Dr. Tobias Straumann Department of Economics Economic History Zürichbergstrasse 14 CH-8032 Zürich Telefon: +41 79 355 28 55 |