Oliver Volckart

Dr Oliver Volckart

Title and contact details

Lecturer in Economic History
Room C215
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7861
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7730
o.j.volckart@lse.ac.uk

Office hours: Wednesday: 10.30-11.30am

Research interests

Late medieval and early modern economic history, constitutional history, monetary and financial history.

Current projects

14th and 16th century financial markets, specifically issues of market integration. The impact of state formation on financial markets; currency unions and optimal currency areas.

Selected publications

2006	(with Nikolaus Wolf) Estimating Financial Integration in the Middle Ages: What can we learn from TAR-model, in Journal of Economic History, 66,1, pp 122-139
2004	The Economics of Feuding Late Medieval Germany, in: Explorations in Economic History 41 (2004) pp282-299

Recent Conference Presentations

June 2007	"Rules, Discretion or reputation: Monetary Policies and the efficiency of Financial Markets in Germany 14^th to 16^th Centuries” European Historical Economics Society Conference, Lund, Sweden.
August 2006	“The Influence of Information Costs on the Integration of Financial Markets: Northern Europe, 14^th to 16^th centuries”, International Economic History Congress, Helsinki, Finland.
June 2006	“Information Costs and the Gold Market in Fourteenth- to Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe”, The Economic History Society Annual Conference, Reading, UK.

Curriculum Vitae

CV (PDF)