CV

Research interests

• Money and central banking
• Financial institutions and markets
• Economic history of the Habsburg monarchy
• Quantitative und econometric methods

Ongoing research

• Research project „Decentralizing central banks: The branch offices of the Austrian and Prussian banks of issue, 1815–1880” (funded by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank)
• Routledge Handbook on the History of Central banking (together with Stefano Ugolini)
• Construction and interpretation of historic time series on central bank balance sheets
• Banking development of banking in 19th century France
• Austrian Hyperinflation 1921-1922

Networks and activities

• Research Fellow (Economic History Programme), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) , 2012–
• Member of the Steering committee of the Bank for International Settlements and Irving Fisher Committee on Historical Monetary and Financial Statistics, 2016 –
• South-East European Monetary History Network, 2008–
• Member of the Advisory committee of the Vienna University Press, 2023–
• Chairman of the expert panel for humanities and social sciences, Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, 2017–2019
• Consultant for the Bălgarska Narodna Banka. Reorganisation of publications and historic research at the Bulgarian National Bank. 2017–2018

Selected recent publications

• Die Verträge von Saint Germain und Trianon und die finanzielle Regelung der Währungstrennung. With Peter Eigner. In: Ulrike Harmat (Hg.), Das Erbe der Habsburgermonarchie in den Nachfolgestaaten: Brüche und Kontinuitäten (= Sonderband zur Reihe: Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918, Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW 2024 (forthcoming).
• Supervision without regulation. Discount Limits at the Austro-Hungarian Bank, 1909-1913. With Kilian Rieder. Economic History Review, 76(4) 2023.
• Historical monetary and financial statistics for policymakers: towards a unified framework. With Vincent Bignon, Claudio Borio, Øyvind Eitrheim, Marc Flandreau, Jan F Qvigstad and Ryland Thomas. BIS Papers No 127, 2022.
• A new long-run consumer price index for Austria , 1800–2018. With Gerald Hubmann and Michaela Maier. Monetary policy & Economy Q3/2020  (German version in Vierteljahresschrift für Sozial und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, March 2020)
• The quest for stable money: Central banking in Austria, 1816–2016, with Hans Kernbauer. Frankfurt, 2016.

List of Publications