Das Lehrbuch führt gründlich in die deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte der letzten 1.500 Jahre, unterteilt in 3 zeitliche Abschnitte, ein. Jeder Abschnitt behandelt in eigenen Kapiteln die wesentlichen Faktoren (Soziales, Bildung, Kultur, Bevölkerung, Umwelt) und Sektoren (Private Haushalte,...

We examine the effects of World Uncertainty and Geopolitical Risk on Trade flows for 31 European economies between 1995 and 2023. To do so, we resort to Panel estimation techniques, including OLS and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML). Our findings reveal that European nations primarily...

This paper analyses the persistence and mean reversion properties of sovereign debt and its components by applying fractional integration methods to long runs of annual data starting in 1831 for the UK and the US, in 1862 for Italy and in 1881 for France and Germany, and ending in all cases in...

In the past few decades, a myriad of reforms in Europe have had a significant impact on the way and extent to which public pensions provide retirement income. This departmental paper takes stock of where European pension systems stand and assesses their key characteristics. We present a novel...

"The History of Migration in Europe belies several myths by arguing, for example, that immobility has not been the "normal" condition of people before the modern era. Migration (far from being an income-maximizing choice taken by lone individuals) is often a household strategy, and local wages...