Research

In the Media

Recent Working Papers

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.
Kersting, F. and Wolf, N. (2019): "On the Origins of National Identity", CRC DP No. 217.
Wolf, N. and Huning, T. (2019): "How Britain Unified Germany: Endogeneous Trade Costs and the Formation of a Customs Unions", CEPR Discussion Paper 13634.
Roses, Joan R. and Wolf, N. (2018): "Regional Economic Development in Europe, 1900-2010: a Description of the Patterns", with Joan R. Roses, CEPR Discussion Paper 12749, Feb 2018.

Recent Publications

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.