Publications

News and upcoming events

In the last SPP-publication of 2020 Benjamin Born, Jonas Dovern and Zeno Enders analyse stock markets' reactions to indicator releases. Find it in our working paper section.

The SPP Masterclass "What Economics and Economic History can learn from Memory Studies" just launched its' Call for Papers. Click here to find more detailed information and the workshops' own website.

How do courts and judicial decisions influence the expectations of market participants? Lukas Herget and Louis Pahlow examine this question in volume 28 of our Working Paper Series (article written in German language).

Is uncertainty in economic projections a rule rather than an exception? Read Laetitia Lenel's newest article on the history of economic forecasting in "Geschichte der Gegenwart".

See here the Call for Papers for the Doctoral Students Workshop Human Beliefs and Economic Expectations.
Using Behavioral Economics in Historical Studies The online workshop will take place in the course of the 4th Congress on Economic and Social History (Vienna) in April 2021.

It is our pleasure to announce of the digital workshop A Global History of State Enterprises in Developing Countries, 1950 to present, taking place on Nov. 26-27, 2020. The workshop is hosted by Marie Huber, one of our Principal Investigators. It brings together ongoing research projects from global and economic history, cultural studies and political science, with case studies from a range of countries and organisations. Your welcome to register on the workshops' website to view all contributions and take part in the discussion.

No 27 of our Paper Series by Lino Wehrheim, Tobias Jopp and Mark Spoerer is out. Click here to find the article (written in German), as well as all other Working Papers of the PP.

No 25 of our paper-series by Andrea Papadia and Claudio Schioppa examines Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets in Nazi Germany, while No 26 by Christoph Behrens takes analyses German trade forecast efficiency. Click here to find all Working Papers!

Four recent Working Papers in our series (No 21-24) analyse German growth forecasts using econometrical, statistical and text mining techniques. Get them here.

The Workshop on Determinants of Saving took place on July 1st and 2nd. Click here to find a summary.

Join our new webinar where our researchers present their ongoing work. You can find the program here.

"Futures Past" by Ulrich Fritsche, Roman Köster & Laetitia Lenel: New edited volume on the history of economic forecasting published. Get it here!

On public and scientific uncertainty in the time of COVID-19, see Laetitia Lenel’s post on the GHI-Blog "History of Knowledge".

Is Corona plunging the world into a new "Great Depression"? See the interview of Jan-Otmar Hesse with the weekly magazine Der Spiegel here.

The WIMFEH-Meeting had to be postponed. The Joint Event Series continues in 2021! Learn more about the "Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics, Finance and Economic History" and please find the Call for Papers here

Experience & Expectation ·
Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour

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