Professor Max Schulze

Research interests

• Economic history of the Habsburg Empire
• 19th and 20th century European economic history
• Long-run growth and convergence in the international economy
• Market integration in Europe, 14th-20th century

Current research projects

• Market Integration and the Welfare of Europeans (eith G. Federico (ERC-funded))
• '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)

 

• Room SAR6.14 (Sardinia House)
• Tel: +44 (0)2 7955 6784
• m.s.schulze@lse.ac.uk
• CV (PDF)

Current teaching

• EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth 1870 to the present day
• EH476 The Economic History of War
• EH520 Approaches to Economic and Social History
• EH590 Thesis Workshop in Economic History

 

 

   Selected publications

• 'On the Origins of Border Effects: Insights from the Habsburg Empire', with N. Wolf, Journal of Economic Geography 9 (2009), pp.117-136.
• '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.

Recent working papers

• 'Economic Nationalism and Economic Integration: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century', with N. Wolf, CESIFO Working Paper no. 2813 (2009)
• 'Endogenous Borders? Exploring a Natural Experiment of Border Effects', with H. C. Heinemeyer and N. Wolf, CEPR Discussion Paper 6909 (2008)
• 'Regional GDP and Market Potential in Austria-Hungary, 1870-1910', LSE Working Paper in Economic History

Recent conference presentations

• Eighth European Historical Economics Society Conference, Geneva 2009
• World Economic History Congress, Utrecht 2009
• ESF Workshop: Historical Economic Geography of Europe – Estimating Regional GDP 1900-2000, EUI Florence 2009
• University of Tokyo – LSE Joint Conference: Economic Geography in Historical Perspectives, Tokyo 2009
• 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