I am post-doctoral researcher at the Humboldt University Berlin. In my research, I focus on two topics at the intersection of political economy, labor economics, and economic history: social conflict and structural change. The research on social conflict circles around the question of how the labor movement became more integrated and less radical in Germany. In my research on structural change, I study economic shocks, e.g., the industrialization and the first globalization, as drivers of changes in the distribution along various dimensions like wealth and labor. My dissertation "The Political Economy of Social Identity in 19th Century Germany" was awarded the Gino Luzzatto Prize by the European Historical Economics Society for the best dissertation in economic history submitted between July 2019 and June 2021. A recent version of CV can be found here.
Research
Publications
Testing Marx. Capital Accumulation, Income Inequality, and Socialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
with Charlotte Bartels and Nikolaus Wolf, The Review of Economics and Statistics Forthcoming.
[PDF Open Access][Replication Files][VoxEU Column][Berlin School of Economics Insights]
On the Origins of National Identity. German Nation-Building after Napoleon
with Nikolaus Wolf, Journal of Comparative Economics 52(2), 463-477, 2024.
[PDF Open access][Replication Files][Online Appendix][VoxEU Column]
Trade Shocks, Labour Markets and Migration in the First Globalisation
with Richard Bräuer, The Economic Journal 134(657), 135-164, 2024.
[PDF Open Access][Replication Files][Online Appendix]
Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism
with Iris Wohnsiedler and Nikolaus Wolf, The Journal of Economic History 80(3), 710-745, 2020.
[PDF Open Access][Replication Files][Online Appendix][VoxEU Column][Ökonomenstimme Column][FAZ Article in German]
Working Papers
The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison
with Erik Bengtsson, revise & resubmit Comparative Political Studies
[OSF preprint, 2024]
Mimicking the Opposition: Bismarck's Welfare State and the Rise of the Socialists
revise & resubmit The Journal of Economic History
[CRC DP No. 448, 2023]
Losing the Country: Debt, Deflation, and the Rural Rise of the Nazi Party
with Thilo N. H. Albers and Monique Reiske
[CRC DP No. 511, 2024]
Industrialization, Returns, Inequality
with Thilo N. H. Albers and Timo Stieglitz
[CRC DP No. 462, 2023][LSE Economic History Blog]
Income Misperception and Populism
with Thilo N. H. Albers and Fabian Kosse.
[CRC DP No. 344, 2022]
Work in Progress
Union Power and Electoral Voice of Workers
with Chantal Pezold
Controlling Labour Conflict: On the Emergence of the German Model of Industrial Relations
with Iris Wohnsiedler
Other publications
The Political Economy of Social Identity in 19th Century Germany, European Review of Economic History, 27(4), 635-637, 2023 [summary of my dissertation].
National identity, economic integration, and the rise of Prussia, with Nikolaus Wolf, In: Ulrich Pfister and Nikolaus Wolf (eds.). An Economic History of the First German Unification. Routledge, 19-37, 2023.
German version: Nationale Identität, ökonomische Integration und der Aufstieg Preusses, with Nikolaus Wolf, In: Ulrich Pfister et al. (eds.). Deutschland 1871. Die Nationalstaatsbildung und der Weg in die Moderne Wirtschaft. Mohr Siebeck, 23-47, 2021.
Review "Capital and Ideology" by Thomas Piketty, with Till Breyer, Critical Inquiry 47(3), 613-615, 2021.
German version: Theorieblog.
Review "Enacting Dismal Science. New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics" by Ivan Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova (eds.), with Anja Breljak, Journal of Economic Methodology 24(4), 434-440, 2017.
Teaching
Seminar Empirical Research in Economics
Seminar Wealth Inequality
Seminar Political Economy of Radicalization
Seminar Regional and Political Polarization
Seminar Political Economy
Seminar Economics of Identity
Seminar Philosophy of Economics
Seminar Economics of Nationalism
Seminar Economic Crises and Political Change
Lecture Introduction to Economics and Economic History
Tutorial Advanced International Trade
Tutorial European Economic History I, 1800-1914