According to a popular belief, West Germany's post-war economic system constituted a clean break with the structures of the Third Reich. The present article takes a critical look at this myth, and examines the continuity ...

Stagnant levels of output and incomplete recoveries in the interwar business cycle have received fresh attention in recent work. Building on the work of Borchardt (1991 [1979]), Fisher and Hornstein (2001) calibrate an ...

This article explores the pattern of land rents and agricultural productivity across nineteenth-century Prussia to gain new insights on the causes of the “Little Divergence” between European regions. We argue that agriculture ...