Research and Data
Research and Data
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Published Papers
Ostermeyer, V. (2025). Winners and Losers: The Asymmetric Impact of Tariff Protection on Late-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Manufacturing Firms. The Journal of Economic History, 85(4), 1138–1169. Open Access Link
Berger, T. and Ostermeyer, V. (2025). Institutional Change and the Adoption of New Technologies: The Case of Steam. The Journal of Economic History, 85(3): 844–873. Open Access Link and Blog Posts at CEPR Discussion Paper Series and VoxEU Blog
Almås, I., Berger, T., Boppart, T., Burchardi, K., Ejermo, O., Eriksson, B., Larsson, A., Malmberg, H., Maukner, S., Olsson, M., and Ostermeyer, V. (2025). Historical manufacturing census of Sweden: Data description and quality assessment. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary Methods. Open Access Link
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, Tidningen Näringslivet, YouTube, and Lund University
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/
This paper also describes the creation of the data set: Almås, I., Berger, T., Boppart, T., Burchardi, K., Ejermo, O., Eriksson, B., Larsson, A., Malmberg, H., Maukner, S., Olsson, M., and Ostermeyer, V. (2025). Historical manufacturing census of Sweden: Data description and quality assessment. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary Methods. Open Access Link