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

• The financial settlement of the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy
• Construction and interpretation of historic time series on money and capital markets
• Interaction between the evolution of money markets and monetary policy 1815–today
• The future of cash from a historic perspective
• Housing price index for Vienna 1870–1990

Networks and activities

• Research Affiliate (Economic History Programme), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) , 2012–
• Working Group for Historical Monetary and Financial Statistics, Bank for International Settlements (BIS), 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

• The quest for stable money: Central banking in Austria, 1816–2016, with Hans Kernbauer. Frankfurt, 2016.
• 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 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.
• A long consumer price index for Austria, 1800–2016, with Gerald Hubmann and Michaela Maier. Monetary Policy & Economy. Forthcoming.
• The Empirics of International Currencies: Networks, History and Persistence, with Marc Flandreau. The Economic Journal 119 (April), 2009.