92 Citations
Development and Religious Polarization: The Emergence of Reform and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
- Economics
- 2011
Jewish emancipation in nineteenth century Europe produced drastically different responses. In Germany, a liberal variant known as Reform developed, while ultra-Orthodox Judaism emerged in eastern…
Economic growth on the periphery: estimates of GDP per capita of the Congress Kingdom of Poland (for years 1870–1912)
- EconomicsEuropean Review of Economic History
- 2021
This paper presents the estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Congress Kingdom of Poland for the period 1870–1912. The authors used bottom-up methodology and calculated sectoral…
Tariffs and Trees: The Effects of the Austro-Hungarian Customs Union on Specialization and Land-Use Change
- EconomicsThe Journal of Economic History
- 2018
This article examines the impact of the 1850 Austro-Hungarian customs union on production land-use outcomes. Using newly digitized data from the Second Military Survey of the Habsburg Monarchy, we…
Origins of catch-up failure: Comparative productivity growth in the Habsburg Empire, 1870–1910
- Economics, History
- 2007
This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire. Using shift-share analysis and a set of basic measures to account for…
A Dissection of Trading Capital: Trade in the Aftermath of the Fall of the Iron Curtain
- EconomicsThe Journal of Economic History
- 2018
We study trade in Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another after 1989 than predicted by…
The Habsburg Monarchy and Austria–Hungary Between Global and Comparative History
- HistoryHistorical Studies on Central Europe
- 2022
This review article examines two conflicting approaches to nineteenth-century Habsburg history. The relatively new but now widely applied framework of global history reaches beyond the nation-state…
From Semi-Colony to Sub-Empire The Changeable Status of the Hungarian Kingdom in the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy*
- History
- 2021
This study analyses the historiographical application of two concepts (colony, and empire), the contemporary interpretations of which fundamentally determined judgements about the status of Hungary…
Social Stratification and Its Perception in Austria and Its Central-East European Neighbouring Countries from 1960 to 2015: Historical Legacies, Socialist Pasts and Recent Developments
- Economics, Political Science
- 2019
This article compares Austria with three of its former state-socialist neighbouring countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The authors are guided by the assumption that it is necessary…
The Paradoxical Czech Memory of the Habsburg Monarchy: Satisfied Helots or Crippled Citizens?
- SociologySlavic Review
- 2019
The article reconstructs the ambivalence of the relationship of Czech society to the Habsburg monarchy and its legacy. While this period can be retrospectively contrasted with the twentieth century…
Cultural barriers to market integration: Evidence from 19th century Austria
- EconomicsJournal of Comparative Economics
- 2018