Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
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Deutschlands Außenhandel. Aufbau einer Datenbank im SITC-Standard. ("GerTrade")
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 01/2025 - 12/2027 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
Die Struktur und Dynamik des deutschen Außenhandels von 1880 bis 1912
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 09/2014 - 12/2017 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
Macroeconomics and Financial History
Quelle ↗Zeitraum: 09/2013 - 08/2017 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
Regional Economic Inequality, Ethnicity and Conflicts in Turkey, 1880-2010
Quelle ↗Förderer: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Zeitraum: 10/2017 - 09/2019 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
SFB 649/3: Die lokale Inzidenz von Schocks- Die Rolle des Immobilienmarktes (TP B 03)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2013 - 12/2016 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
SFB/TRR 190/1: Zwischenstaatlicher Wettbewerb und historische Wurzeln von Identität (TP B08)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2017 - 12/2020 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
SFB/TRR 190/2: Veränderliche Präferenzen: Identität und Ideologie in langfristiger Perspektive (TP B08)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2021 - 12/2024 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
SFB/TRR 190/3: Veränderliche Präferenzen: Identität und Ideologie in langfristiger Perspektive (TP B08)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2025 - 12/2028 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
Wirtschaftliche Integrationsperspektiven von EU und Nordafrika - Investitionen, Reformen,Partnerschaft (Studie)
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Zeitraum: 11/2016 - 03/2017 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
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- SKILLAB: Monitoring The Demand And Supply Of Skills In The European Labour MarketP57.9%
- SKILLAB: Monitoring The Demand And Supply Of Skills In The European Labour Market
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- SKILLAB: Monitoring The Demand And Supply Of Skills In The European Labour MarketP57.9%
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- SKILLAB: Monitoring The Demand And Supply Of Skills In The European Labour MarketP57.9%
- SKILLAB: Monitoring The Demand And Supply Of Skills In The European Labour Market
- 46 Treffer55.8%
- HERALDic Identity in Context. Datengetriebene Erforschung von Identitäten und dem Wechselverhältnis zwischen Gruppe und Individuum in heraldischer Kommunikation unter Verwendung einer Ontologie (Königreich Frankreich und Heiliges Römisches Reich, 12. bis 16. Jahrhundert).P55.8%
- HERALDic Identity in Context. Datengetriebene Erforschung von Identitäten und dem Wechselverhältnis zwischen Gruppe und Individuum in heraldischer Kommunikation unter Verwendung einer Ontologie (Königreich Frankreich und Heiliges Römisches Reich, 12. bis 16. Jahrhundert).
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- REGIO - Eine Kartierung der Entstehung und des Erfolgs von Kooperationsbeziehungen in regionalen Forschungsverbünden und Innovationsclustern. Determinanten der Entstehung und des Erfolgs von Kooperationsbeziehungen in regionalen ForschungsverbündenP54.8%
- REGIO - Eine Kartierung der Entstehung und des Erfolgs von Kooperationsbeziehungen in regionalen Forschungsverbünden und Innovationsclustern. Determinanten der Entstehung und des Erfolgs von Kooperationsbeziehungen in regionalen Forschungsverbünden
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- SED-Unrecht. Landschaften der Verfolgung. Forschungsverbund zur Erfassung und Analyse der politischen Repression in SBZ und DDRP54.0%
- SED-Unrecht. Landschaften der Verfolgung. Forschungsverbund zur Erfassung und Analyse der politischen Repression in SBZ und DDR
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- Satellitengestützte Information zur Grünlandbewirtschaftung
Publikationen25
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Econometrica · 683 Zitationen · DOI
This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces and an arbitrary number of heterogeneous city blocks. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which yield a gravity equation for commuting flows. To structurally estimate agglomeration and dispersion forces, we use data on thousands of city blocks in Berlin for 1936, 1986 and 2006 and exogenous variation from the city’s division and reunification. We estimate substantial and highly localized production and residential externalities. We show that the model with the estimated agglomeration parameters can account both qualitatively and quantitatively for the observed changes in city structure. We show how our quantitative framework can be used to undertake counterfactuals for changes in the organization of economic activity within cities in response for example to changes in the transport network.
214 Zitationen
A central prediction of a large class of theoretical models is that industry location is not necessarily uniquely determined by fundamentals. In these models, historical accident or expectations determine which of several steady-state locations is selected. Despite the theoretical prominence of these ideas, there is surprisingly little systematic evidence on their empirical relevance. This paper exploits the combination of the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reuni…cation of East and West Germany as an exogenous shock to industry location. We focus on a particular economic activity and establish that division caused a shift of Germany’s air hub from Berlin to Frankfurt and there is no evidence of a return of the air hub to Berlin after reuni…cation. We develop a body of evidence that the relocation of the air hub is not driven by a change in economic fundamentals but is instead a shift between multiple steady-states.
National Bureau of Economic Research · 111 Zitationen · DOI
This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces and an arbitrary number of heterogeneous city blocks. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which yield a gravity equation for commuting flows. To structurally estimate agglomeration and dispersion forces, we use data on thousands of city blocks in Berlin for 1936, 1986 and 2006 and exogenous variation from the city's division and reunification. We estimate substantial and highly localized production and residential externalities. We show that the model with the estimated agglomeration parameters can account both qualitatively and quantitatively for the observed changes in city structure. We show how our quantitative framework can be used to undertake counterfactuals for changes in the organization of economic activity within cities in response for example to changes in the transport network.
The Journal of Economic History · 92 Zitationen · DOI
We examine the geography of cotton textiles in Britain in 1838 to test claims about why the industry came to be so heavily concentrated in Lancashire. Our analysis considers both first and second nature aspects of geography including the availability of water power, humidity, coal prices, market access, and sunk costs. We show that some of these characteristics have substantial explanatory power. Moreover, we exploit the change from water to steam power to show that the persistent effect of first nature characteristics on industry location can be explained by a combination of sunk costs and agglomeration effects.
Oxford University Press eBooks · 87 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe’s Great Depression. I argue that Europe could not exploit its vast economic potential after 1918, because the war had not yet come to an end—indeed, it did not end before 1945. Both domestic and international institutions suffered from a lack of reciprocal trust and commitment, which can be clearly illustrated in the realm of monetary policy, but affected many other areas of policy-making, such as energy or migration policies. These institutions in turn affected expectations and thereby the extent to which, for example, expansionary policies could be effective.
Explorations in Economic History · 83 Zitationen · DOI
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 70 Zitationen · DOI
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this article we present the first analysis of the effect of language on trade in an intra-national context. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the local dialect have a significantly positive impact on regional trade. We interpret this finding as evidence for the trade-promoting effect of culture, because linguistic similarities likely reflect cultural ties across regions, rather than lower costs of communication or similar institutions.
SSRN Electronic Journal · 69 Zitationen · DOI
Journal of Economic Geography · 69 Zitationen · DOI
What are the origins of border effects on trade and why do borders continue to matter in periods of increasing economic integration? We explore the hypothesis that border effects emerged as a result of asymmetric economic integration in the unique historical setting of the multi-national Habsburg Empire prior to the First World War. While markets tended to integrate mainly due to improved infrastructure, ethno-linguistic networks had persistent trade diverting effects. We find that the political borders which separated the empire's successor states after the First World War became visible in the economy from the mid-1880s onwards, already 25–30 years before the First World War. This effect of a ‘border before a border’ cannot be explained by factors such as administrative barriers, physical geography, changes in infrastructure or patterns of integration with neighbouring regions outside of the Habsburg customs and monetary union. However, controlling for the changing ethno-linguistic composition of the population across the regional capital cities of the empire does explain most of the estimated border effects.
SSRN Electronic Journal · 67 Zitationen · DOI
63 Zitationen
Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and economic union, strong and strictly enforced administrative barriers to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border effects literatures. Our estimation results show a remarkable persistence in intra-German trade patterns along the former East-West border; political integration is not rapidly followed by economic integration. Instead, we estimate that it takes at least one generation (between 33 and 40 years or more) to remove the impact of political borders on trade. This finding strongly suggests that border effects are neither statistical artefacts nor mainly driven by administrative or “red tape ” barriers to trade, but arise from economic fundamentals.
SSRN Electronic Journal · 63 Zitationen · DOI
Kyklos · 61 Zitationen · DOI
This paper draws on a natural experiment to examine the effects of policy arrangements on international trade. We study data on trade and currency bloc formation in Europe after the Great Depression. Far removed from being customs or currency unions, these blocs could not create much trade and should be mere placebos. Yet under conventional approaches to the gravity equation, they exhibit highly significant and sometimes very large trade effects. We employ treatment effect methods from labor econometrics to identify endogeneity both along the time axis and in the cross section. We find pervasive evidence of such endogeneity, which standard estimates of the gravity equation fail to detect. These findings are confirmed by matching models designed to eliminate the endogeneity of bloc formation itself. Our results caution against the significant and high trade creation effects of political arrangements often reported in the gravity literature.
The Journal of Economic History · 60 Zitationen · DOI
This article explores the pattern of land rents and agricultural productivity across nineteenth-century Prussia to gain new insights on the causes of the “Little Divergence” between European regions. We argue that agriculture reacted to urban and industrial development rather than shaping it. In the spirit of Johann von Thünen and Ernst Engel, we develop a theoretical model to test how access to urban demand affected agricultural development. We show that the effect of urban demand is causal and that it is in line with recent findings on a limited degree of interregional market integration in nineteenth-century Prussia.
The Economic History Review · 59 Zitationen · DOI
Wars are increasingly frequent, and the trend has been steadily upward since 1870. The main tradition of western political and philosophical thought suggests that extensive economic globalization and democratization over this period should have reduced appetites for war far below their current level. This view is clearly incomplete: at best, confounding factors are at work. Here, we explore the capacity to wage war. Most fundamentally, the growing number of sovereign states has been closely associated with the spread of democracy and increasing commercial openness, as well as the number of bilateral conflicts. Trade and democracy are traditionally thought of as goods, both in themselves, and because they reduce the willingness to go to war, given the national capacity to do so, but the same factors may also have been increasing the capacity for war, and thus its frequency.
Explorations in Economic History · 57 Zitationen · DOI
The Economic History Review · 52 Zitationen · DOI
This article seeks to square two seemingly contradictory strands in the literature on economic development in the late nineteenth‐century Habsburg Empire. On the one hand, there is an extensive historiography stressing the rise of nationalism and its close correlate of growing efforts to organize economic life along ethno‐linguistic lines. On the other, there is a substantial body of research that emphasizes significant improvements in market integration across the empire as an outcome of the diffusion of industrialization and an expanding railway network, among other factors. In this article, it is argued that the process of market integration was systematically asymmetric, shaped by intensifying intra‐empire nationality conflicts. While grain markets in Austria‐Hungary became overall more integrated over time, they also became systematically biased: regions with a similar ethno‐linguistic composition of their population came to display significantly smaller price gaps between each other than regions with different compositions. The emergence and persistence of this differential integration cannot be explained by changes in infrastructure and transport costs, simple geographical features, asymmetric integration with neighbouring regions abroad, or communication problems. Instead, differential market integration along ethno‐linguistic lines was driven by the formation of ethno‐linguistic networks due to intensifying conflict between groups—economic nationalism mattered.
The Review of Economics and Statistics · 52 Zitationen · DOI
A central prediction of a large class of theoretical models is that industry location is not uniquely determined by fundamentals. Despite the theoretical prominence of this idea, there is little systematic evidence in support of its empirical relevance. This paper exploits the division of Germany after World War II and the reunification of East and West Germany as an exogenous shock to industry location. Focusing on a particular economic activity, an air hub, we develop a body of evidence that the relocation of Germany's air hub from Berlin to Frankfurt in response to division is a shift between multiple steady states.
SSRN Electronic Journal · 49 Zitationen · DOI
SSRN Electronic Journal · 48 Zitationen · DOI
Oxford Review of Economic Policy · 45 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract In this paper we discuss regional income growth and inequality based on a new set of long-run data. The data cover 173 European regions in 16 countries, from 1900 to 2015. These data allow us to compare regions over time, among each other, and to other parts of the world. After some brief notes on methodology, we describe the basic patterns in the data in terms of some key dimensions: variation in the density of population and economic activity, structural change with a declining role of agriculture, the rise and fall of industry, and the long rise of services. We show how ‘fundamentals’ of institutions and geography affected income levels over the twentieth century, and describe how regional growth after 1945 turned from convergence and adjustment to shocks to divergence. In the long run we observe a U-shaped pattern of regional convergence followed by divergence, not unlike recent observations on personal income and wealth distributions.
The Journal of Economic History · 41 Zitationen · DOI
We estimate a threshold autoregressive model to assess medieval financial integration. Our approach is based on the analysis of deviations between exchange rates and parity, which in a fully integrated market should not exceed bullion points. Hence, the time needed for adjustment, following a violation of the bullion points, is a measure of integration. We apply this approach to exchange between fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Flanders, Lübeck, and Prussia, results showing that whereas it took about eight months to reduce deviations between Flanders and Lübeck by 50 percent, those between Flanders and Prussia were roughly twice as persistent.
The Journal of Economic History · 39 Zitationen · DOI
We revisit Max Weber’s hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber’s Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century century Prussia we reject Weber’s suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an “ascetic compulsion to save.” Moreover, we find that income levels, savings, and literacy rates differed between Germans and Poles, not between Protestants and Catholics, using pooled OLS and IV regressions. We suggest that this result is due to anti-Polish discrimination.
European Review of Economic History · 39 Zitationen · DOI
In this article we study the issue of cross-border economic integration in the context of Poland's reunification from 1919. We find that the Polish interwar economy can be regarded as integrated with some restrictions. Moreover, a significant negative impact of the former partition borders on the integration level in the early 1920s vanishes in the middle of the 1920s. This suggests that the post-reunification integration was surprisingly successful. The degree of integration is comparable to that of 19th century France.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 38 Zitationen · DOI
From 1913 to 1950 the European growth record was rather poor. The "Second Thirty Years War" (Churchill 1948, p. xiii), or the period from the beginning of the First World War in 1914 to the end of the Second World War in 1945, stands in sharp contrast to the following Golden Age of Growth between about 1950 and 1973 (see Chapter 12 in this volume). And indeed, the rates of economic growth across European countries were "unusually" low: they seem to distinguish Europe from other parts of the world during that time span, but also stand out compared to Europe's growth experience from about 1870 to 1913. A substantial literature has pointed to several key factors that may account for this slowdown of growth rates in Europe. Not surprisingly, a central role is attributed to the occurrence of two devastating wars that raged in the center of Europe over a third of the entire period 1913–1950 (Svennilson 1954). The remaining twenty years have often been characterized as a time of political turmoil and, in many cases, misguided macroeconomic policies; and, related to this, a general failure to coordinate policies between countries, which prevented Europe from fully realizing its economic potential (Feinstein, Temin, and Toniolo 1997).
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