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I am a Max Weber Fellow and Part-time Assistant Professor at the European University Institute in Florence (Departments of Political & Social Sciences and Economics). I recently received my PhD in economic history from the London School of Economics. I combine microeconometric methods with historical data. My main research interests are in economic history, inequality and political economy. I also received B.A. and M.Sc. degrees in Economics and Management from Witten/Herdecke University (Germany) and Bocconi University (Italy), and an M.Phil. in Economic and Social History from the University of Cambridge (UK). My latest article "Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities" is forthcoming in The Journal of Economic History. My paper “Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)” (vol. 89, 2023, 101495) recently came out in Explorations in Economic History.