Research Interests

Long-run regional and urban development in Europe, origins and consequences of culture and identity for economic development, long-run legacies of ancient civilizations, origins of states and determinants of their success

Current Working Papers
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The historical roots of well-being: Roman rule and present-day adaptive outcomes in Germany, 2023, (with Martin Obschonka, Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich, Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling) submitted to JPSP
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Does Regional Identity Guide Investments? Evidence from German License Plates., 2022, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 18074 (with Thilo R. Huning)

Older version with additional results was entiteled "Identity, Instability, and Investors. An Empirical Investigation of the Home Bias" (Working Papers of the Priority Programme 1859 Experience and Expectation. Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour No. 3)

VOXTalks Economics Podcast

Can Wine Growing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Early Modern Baden-Württemberg, 2022, Mimeo (with Thilo R. Huning) ​R&R European Review of Economic History