Max-Stephan Schulze

Reader in Economic History
Room C515
Tel: +44 (0)2 7955 6784
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7730
m.s.schulze@lse.ac.uk

Office hours: Thursday 9.30-10.30am

Economic history of the Habsburg Empire
Economic development of Continental Europe in the 19th century and 20th centuries
Long-run growth and convergence in the international economy

‘Market Access, Endowments, Industrial Location: The Habsburg Economy,1870-1913’; funded by 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); funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
‘Trade, growth and the international income distribution dynamics since 1870’ (with P. Epstein, W.P. Howlett)

'On the Origins of Border Effects: Insights from the Habsburg Empire', with N. Wolf, Journal of Economic Geography (2008), pp1-20
'Origins of Catch-up Failure: Comparative Productivity Growth in the Habsburg Empire, 1870-1910', European Review of Economic History 11 (2007) pp189-218
‘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, pp100-113.
‘Austria-Hungary’s Economy in World War I’, in S. Broadberry & M. Harrison (eds.), The Economics of World War I (CUP: 2005), pp77-111.
‘Distribution Dynamics: Stratification, Polarization and Convergence Among OECD Economies, 1870-1992’, with P. Epstein and P. Howlett, Explorations in Economic History 40 (2003), pp78-97.
‘Austria: Austria Before 1867’, in Joel Mokyr (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, (OUP: New York, 2003), pp182-4.
Patterns of Growth and Stagnation in the Late Nineteenth Century Habsburg Economy', European Review of Economic History, 4 (2000). pp311-340
Western Europe: Economic and Social Change Since 1945, Ed. Longman, 1999.
"The Machine-Building Industry and Austria's Great Depression after 1873", Economic History Review, L, 2 (1997)
Engineering and Economic Growth. The Development of Austria-Hungary's Machine-Building Industry, Peter Lang, 1996.

Final Conference 'Unifying the European Experience: Historical Lessons of Pan-European Development', Cracow 2008
Sixth World Congress of Cliometrics, Edinburgh 2008
Beta Workshop in Historical Economics, Strasbourg 2008
Workshop - Regional GDP across Europe, 1900-2000, Warwick University 2008
Third RTN Summer Symposium 'Unifying the European Experience: Historical Lessons of Pan-European Development', CEPR, London 2007
Seventh European Historical Economics Society Conference, Lund 2007
Historical Economic Geography of Europe, 1900-2000, Madrid 2007
ASSA Meetings, Cliometric Society Session, Chicago, 2007
Second German Cliometrics Conference, Tübingen, 2006
Beta Workshop in Historical Economics, Strasbourg 2006
Economic History Society Conference, Reading, 2006
The Berlin Colloquium – A Quantitative Economic History Workshop, Berlin 2005
First Conference of the RTN ‘Unifying the European Experience: Historical Lessons of Pan-European Development’, University of Warwick, 2005
Beta Workshop in Historical Economics, Strasbourg 2005
Fifth World Cliometrics Conference, Venice 2004
The Berlin Colloquium – A Quantitative Economic History Workshop, Berlin 2004
Economic History Association Meeting, Nashville, 2003