CV and list of publications

Research interests

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

Ongoing research

• Construction and interpretation of historic time series on money and capital markets
• Central bank lending 19th century
• Banking development of banking in 19th century France
• Housing price index for Vienna 1870–1990

Networks and activities

• Speaker for the research cluster "Social and Economic Spaces" of the Doctoral School of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, together with Margareth Lanzinger
• Speaker for the research area "Economy and Society from a Historic Cultural Science Perspective", together with Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber
• Research Fellow (Economic History Programme), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) , 2012–
• Bank for International Settlements and Irving Fisher Committee on Historical Monetary and Financial Statistics, 2016 –
• South-East European Monetary History Network, 2008–
• Chairman of the expert panel for humanities and social sciences, Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichischen 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

• Supervision without regulation. Discount Limits at the Austro-Hungarian Bank, 1909-1913. With Kilian Rieder. Economic History Review, forthcoming.
• 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 institutional foundations of successful public borrowing – Models of public banks in Habsburg Austria and Habsburg Naples 1700–1800, in Larry Neal and Lilia Costabile (eds.), A comparative perspective on the public banks of Naples (1462–1808). Palgrave, 2018.
• The quest for stable money: Central banking in Austria, 1816–2016, with Hans Kernbauer. Frankfurt, 2016.
• The Coevolution of Money Markets and Monetary Policy, 1815–2008, with Stefano Ugolini. In: Michael Bordo et al. (eds.), Central Banks at a Crossroads. What Can We Learn from History? Cambridge, 2016.