Research

Recent Working Papers

• Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian and Wolf, N. (2021): "The Panopticon of Germany’s Foreign Trade, 1880 – 1913. New facts on the First Globalization", CEPR Discussion Paper 15988.

• Bartels, C., Kersting, F. and Wolf, N. (2021): "Testing Marx. Income Inequality, Concentration, and Socialism in Late 19th Century Germany", Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 32, EHES Working Paper No. 211.

• Kersting, F. and Wolf, N. (2021): "On the Origins of National Identity", update to CRC DP No. 217.

• Eckardt, M., Kappner, K. and Wolf, N. (2020): "COVID-19 across European Regions: The Role of Border Controls", CEPR Discussion Paper 15178 and Covid Economics Vol 42, pp. 94-111.

• Wolf, N. and Huning, T. (2019): "How Britain Unified Germany: Endogeneous Trade Costs and the Formation of a Customs Unions", CEPR Discussion Paper 13634.

Recent Publications

• NEW BOOK: Ulrich Pfister, Jan Hesse, Mark Spoerer and Nikolaus Wolf (eds). "Deutschland 1871. Die Nationalstaatsbildung und der Weg in die moderne Wirtschaft", Mohr Siebeck (2021).

• Caruana Galicia, P., Okubo, T. and Wolf, N. (2021): "Underlying Sources of Growth. First and Second Nature Geography.", in Broadberry and Fukao (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World, Vol. 2: 1870 to the Present, Cambridge University Press (June 2021).

• Roses, J. R. and Wolf, N. (2021): "Regional growth and inequality in the long-run: Europe, 1900–2015", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2021, pp. 17–48.

• Kersting, F., Wohnsiedler, I., and Wolf, N. (2020): "Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 80, No. 3 (September), pp. 710-745.

• Wolf, N. and Suesse M. (2020): "Rural Transformation, Inequality and the Origins of Micro-Finance", Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 143 (March), pp. xyz, Online Appendix.

More Publications (selected)

• Roses, J. R. and Wolf, N. (eds), The Economic Development of Europe's Regions: A Quantitative History Since 1900 (Routledge Explorations in Economic History), Routledge (2019).

• Ahlfeld, G., Redding, S., Sturm, D. and Wolf, N. (2015): “The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall”, Econometrica, Volume 83 (6), pp. 2127-2189.

• Caruana Galizia, P. and Wolf. N. (2015), “Bombs, Homes and Jobs: Revisiting the Oswald Hypothesis for Germany”, , Economics Letters, Volume 135, pp. 65-68.

• Wolf, N. (2014), Kurze Geschichte der Weltwirtschaft, APUZ 1-3/2014, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.

• Wolf, N. (2010), "Europe's Great Depression - Coordination Failure after the First World War", Oxford Review of Economic Policy 26(3), pp. 339-369.

• Wolf, N. (2009), “Was Germany ever united? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade, 1885-1933”, The Journal of Economic History 69 (3), pp. 846-881.

All my Publications at Google Scholar, Ideas/ RePEc

In the Media

• "Wirtschaftsfaktor Religion", FAZ (April 2021)

• "Deutschland in der Ersten Globalisierung", ZBW Wirtschaftsdienst (April 2021)

• "Germany's Regional Development: 30-150 Years Since Unification", Economic History Podcast (Dec 2020)

• "Levelling up is easier in a world of remote work", Financial Times, (17 Nov 2020)

• "Did Border controls help? (Oct 2020)", Blog at BSE Insights

• "Geschichte der Globalisierung in der Neuzeit" (Sept 2020), Interview mit Andreas Beckmann, Deutschlandfunk

• "COVID-19 across European Regions: The Role of Border Controls" (Sept 2020), Interview at Faculti.net

• "Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Nationalismus" (Sept 2020), Beitrag auf Ökonomenstimme.org

• "Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism" (July 2020), post at VOXEU.org

• "The Origins of Microfinance" (January 2020), post at VOXEU.org