Research

Recent Working Papers

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 (R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics).
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.
Kersting, F. and Wolf, N. (2021): "On the Origins of National Identity", CEPR Discussion Paper 16314.
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

Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian and Wolf, N. (2022): "The panopticon of Germany’ s foreign trade, 1880 – 1913. New facts on the first globalization", European Review of Economic History (forthcoming)
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", Web Appendix, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 80, No. 3 (September), pp. 710-745, Online Appendix.
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.

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