About me

Research interests

European economic history; economic development of the Habsburg Empire; goods and capital market integration; long-run economic growth and convergence; historical economic geography.

Current research projects

Integration and Growth: Capital and Goods Markets in 14^th to 18^th century Europe (with O. Volckart; Leverhulme Trust, grant RPG-133)
Market Integration and the Welfare of Europeans (with G. Federico; ERC)
Market Access, Endowments, Industrial Location: The Habsburg Economy, 1870-1913 (Economic & Social Research Council, grant RES-000-22-1598)
Das Handelsnetz Zentraleuropas: Preisintegration und interregionaler Handel zwischen Österreich, Ungarn, der Tschechischen Republik, der Slowakei, Polen und Deutschland, 1850-1939 (with N. Wolf; Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)

Teaching 2019-20

EH312 - Knowledge, Technology and Economy from the Middle Ages to Modernity

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Expertise Details

19th century; Austria; European economy; continental Europe; economic development; economic history

‘From Empire to Republic: Regional Inequality in Austria, 1870-2010’, in J. Roses and N. Wolf (eds.), The Economic Development of Europe’s Regions (Routledge: forthcoming).
‘How Peripheral was the Periphery? Industrialisation in East Central Europe since 1870’, with A. Klein and T. Vonyó, in K.H. O’Rourke and J.G. Williamson (eds.), The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 (Oxford University Press: 2017), pp.63-90.
‘Benefits of Empire? Capital Market Integration North and South of the Alps, 1350-1800’, with D. Chilosi and O. Volckart, LSE Working Papers in Economic History 236 (2016).
‘Economic Nationalism and Economic Integration: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 19^th Century’, with N. Wolf, Economic History Review 65, 2 (2012), pp.652–673.
‘On the Economic Consequences of the Peace: Trade and Borders after Versailles’, with H.C. Heinemeyer and N. Wolf, Journal of Economic History 71, No. 4 (2011), pp.915-949.
‘On the Origins of Border Effects: Insights from the Habsburg Empire’, with N. Wolf, Journal of Economic Geography 9 (2009) No.1, pp. 117-136.
‘The Growth and Composition of Imperial Austria’s Fixed Capital Stock: New Annual Time Series for 1870-1913’, Économies et Sociétés, Série‘Histoire Economique Quantitative’, AF, no. 39, 9/2008, pp. 1597-1614.
‘Origins of Catch-up Failure: Comparative Productivity Growth in the Habsburg Empire, 1870-1910’, European Review of Economic History 11 (2007), pp.189-218. → insert link
‘Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the Dynamics of the International Income Distribution, 1950-1998’, with P. Epstein and P. Howlett, Explorations in Economic History 44 (2007), No. 1, pp. 100-113.

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Professor Max Schulze

Professor of Economic History

Department of Economic History

About me

Teaching 2019-20

Expertise Details

Selected publications