Research

Publications

The Rise of Fiscal Capacity: Administration and State Consolidation in the Holy Roman Empire (with Davide Cantoni and Cathrin Mohr) Econometrica, 92(5), pp. 1439-1472

Working Papers

Crisis and Absolutism: A Design-based Analysis of the Thirty Years’ War (with Luis Bosshart) Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Identity and Institutional Change: Evidence from First Names in Germany, 1700–1850 (with Davide Cantoni and Cathrin Mohr) Reject and Resubmit, American Economic Review (WP)

Hysteresis and Selection in the Rise of Fascism: The ‘Ordinary Men’ of the Nazi Party (with Luis Bosshart, Max Deter, Leander Heldring, and Cathrin Mohr) (WP)

The Success of the Embedded State in England (with Leander Heldring, Davis Kedrosky, and James A. Robinson)

City Directories as a Source of Historical Microdata: Progress Report (with Davide Cantoni and Mathias Bühler)

Work in Progress

Coordination and Collusion: German Industrialization, 1882–1945 (with Luis Bosshart).