This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find...

Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions is one and the same. The Cold War began as a competition between capitalist and...

Geopolitical risks and organizational challenges -- Swiss and (Anglo)-Dutch multinationals and organizational change in the era of total war / Takafumi Kurosawa and Ben Wubs -- Municipalisation, war, tax and nationalisation : imperial continental gas association in an era of turmoil, 1824-1987 /...