Research and Data

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Published Papers (Peer Reviewed)

Berger, T. and Ostermeyer, V. (2024). Firm Survival and the Rise of the Factory. The Economic History Review. Open Access Link

Ostermeyer, V. (2023). Local multipliers and the growth of services: evidence from late nineteenth century USA, Great Britain, and Sweden. European Review of Economic History, 27(1), 70–90. Open Access Link and Blog Post

PhD Dissertation

Ostermeyer, V. (2023). Why Firms Grow: The Roles of Institutions, Trade, and Technology during Swedish Industrialization, Thesis in Lund University's Research Portal and as PDF

Media Coverage: ESBRI and Tidningen Näringslivet

Working Papers

Ostermeyer, V. (2022). Winners and Losers: The Asymmetric Impact of Tariff Protection on Late-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Manufacturing Firms (Accepted at The Journal of Economic History)

Berger, T. and Ostermeyer, V. (2022). Institutional Change and the Adoption of New Technologies: The Case of Steam (Accepted at The Journal of Economic History)

Data

I helped build The Historical Manufacturing Census of Sweden, a yearly panel of 19th-century Swedish manufacturing firms. You can learn more about the project and find the data here https://www.historicalmanufacturingcensus.se/