Research
Market Design in the Long Run
Anglo-Dutch Premium Auctions in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam (with Christiaan van Bochove and with Daniel Quint)
The Design of Debt Clearing Markets: Clearinghouse Mechanisms in Pre-Industrial Europe: (with John Hatfield) in Journal of Political Economy 125(6), 2017, pp. 1991-2037.
Medieval Matching Markets (with Daniel Quint), International Economic Review, 64(1), 2023, pp. 23-56.
covered by blogs: discussion of an earlier version on Al Roth's Market Design Blog; Economic Logician
Medieval Market Making: Brokerage Regulations in Central Western Europe, ca. 1250-1700
Auctions and their historical contexts around the globe since 1700
Clocks, Time, and Economic Growth (with solar eclipses as instruments)
Time for Growth (with Battista Severgnini)
Royal Ecoconomic Society Media Briefing (RES link)
European Economic Association Media Briefing (EEA link)
Covered by VOX CEPR's Policy Portal.(VOX link)
Covered by the media:
Corriere della Sera, SETTE, 22.02.2016. (Online version can be found here)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung: Der Sonntagsökonom 20.09.2015.
LSE Business Review 2016 (link can be found here)
Clocks, Printing Press, and Protestantism (with solar eclipses as instruments)
A Time to Print a Time to Reform (with Jared Rubin and Battista Severgnini) in: European Economic Review 138, September 2021,
Trade Epidemics
Epidemic Trade (with Battista Severgnini)
covered by the media:The Economist: The weekly papers
covered by blogs: Back-Of-The-Envelope Economics; Medievalists Net
Measuring and Comparing Economic Interaction Based on the Paths and Speed of Infections. The Case Study of the Spread of the Justinian Plague and Black Death (with Battista Severgnini), in: Verboven, Koenraad, ed. Complexity Economics: Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History. Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Genoa and Venice: Traders of Prosperity, Growth, and Death (with Battista Severgnini), in: Georg Chirst et al. (eds.), Union in Separation: Trading Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean (1200-1700). Rome: Viella 2015.
Currency Unions
The Utility of a Common Coinage: Currency Unions and Financial Market Integration in Late Medieval Central Europe, (with Oliver Volckart), Explorations in Economic History 48, (2011), pp. 53-65.
„…darumb das alsdann die Bequemikeit eyner einigenn Muntz sich manigfaltig erzeigenn mocht...“: Spätmittelalterliche Währungsunionen und ihre Folgen, (with Oliver Volckart), Bankhistorisches Archiv/Banking and Finance in Historical Perspective 33(2), (2007).
Community Responsibility Systems and Financial Markets
Communal Responsibility and the Coexistence of Money and Credit Under Anonymous Matching, (with Albrecht Ritschl), CEP Discussion Paper 1034, December 2010.
here you find a short introduction:CEP comment
The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm, (with Albrecht Ritschl), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 165(1), (2009) , pp. 99-112.
Individual enforcement of collective liability in premodern Europe, (with Albrecht Ritschl), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 158(1), (2002), pp. 205-213.
Firms and Partnerships
Breaking up is hard to do: Partnership Dissolution, the Economy of the Commenda, and the Origin of the firm mimeo.
Die Fugger. Ein Grossunternehmen des 16. Jahrhunderts transaktionkostenökonomisch erklärt? In: Bruno Staffelbach und Marcel Senn (eds.), Ökonomik im Mittelalter: Eine Zeitreise mit modernen mikroökonomischen Theorien, Zürich: Chronos 2002.
Others: Book Reviews
Skambraks, Tanja, Julia Bruch, and Ulla Kypta (eds.) . Markets and their Actors in the Late Middle Ages. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2021. Review in: VSWG 2022.
Beales, Derek. Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Review in: EH.NET 2004.