CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr Tamás Vonyó
CORRESPONDENCE
Work Address: Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management Bocconi University 1 Via Roentgen Tel: +39 02 5836 5480 20136 Milano Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
2010 D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Economic and Social History University of Oxford Thesis: Post-War Reconstruction and the Economic Miracle. The Dynamics of West German Economic Growth during the 1950s and 1960s Supervisor: Dr. Oliver Gant Ext. Examiner: Prof. Albrecht Ritschl (LSE)
2007 M.Phil. in Economic and Social History (Distinction) University of Oxford Dissertation: Reconstruction Revisited. Can the Reconstruction Thesis Explain the West German Economic Miracle? Supervisor: Dr. Oliver Grant
2005 B.Sc. in Economic Diplomacy and International Management (Distinction) Budapest Business School
2000- B.Sc. in Economics and Business 2001 University of Pécs (not completed)
1999 International Baccalaureate Diploma Lester B Pearson United World College of the Pacific Victoria BC, Canada
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Since 2014 Assistant Professor, Bocconi University, PAM
2013 – 2014 Assistant Professor, LSE, Economic History Department
2012 – 2013 Lecturer, LSE, Economic History Department
– 1 – 2010 – 2012 Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business, Groningen Growth and Development Centre
2010 Junior fellow, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study
TEACHING
2014-2015 Economic History (bachelor), Bocconi
2013-2014 Topics in Quantitative Economic History (master), LSE Historical Analysis of Economic Change (master), LSE The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (master), LSE Theories and Evidence in Economic History (bachelor), LSE
2012-2013 Topics in Quantitative Economic History (master), LSE Theories and Evidence in Economic History (bachelor), LSE
2011-2012 Economic History (master), University of Groningnen I ranked among the top five lecturers of the faculty in the course evaluations and I was nominated for the Lecturer of the Year Award.
Thesis Supervision Since 2013 Flóra Macher, MPhil/PhD in Economic History, LSE The Worst Things Come in Pairs: Banking and Currency Crisis in Austria and Hungary, 1931 Leonard Kukic, MPhil/PhD in Economic History, LSE Essays on Economic Growth and Development in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-1990 2010-2014 Nikita E. S. Bos, PhD in Economics, University of Groningnen (Distinction) The Relative Economic Decline of Postwar Britain in an International Context 2010 Nikita E. S. Bos, MA Research in Economics, University of Groningnen A Comparative Labour Productivity Benchmark for Germany and Britain in 1951
GRANTS AND PRIZES
Bocconi Young Researchers Grant (9,000 EUR), July 2016 Dissertation Prize of the International Economic History Association, 16th World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2012 Feinstein Prize for the best graduate dissertation in economic and social history (masters) at the University of Oxford in 2007, May 2008 Scatcherd European Scholarship to undertake research in Berlin, February to July 2008 Dulverton Scholarship to undertake graduate study at the University of Oxford, 2005-2007 Economic and Social Research Council ‘Fees Only’ 2+2 Years Quota Award, 2005-2009 DAAD Summer University Studentship, Heidelberg, August 2004 Research Studentship of the Institute for Danube-Suabian History and Culture, Tübingen, 2004
– 2 – Scholarship of the Republic (most prestigious prize for undergraduate students in Hungary) Rector’s Award for exceptional academic merit, Budapest Business School National Student Conference (Hungary), Section of Economic Sciences, First Prize, 2004
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The economic history of modern Germany and Central Europe, the determinants of long-run growth, state capacity in fostering economic development, comparative industrial development, the economics of modern warfare, particularly World War II, and socialist industrialisation.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Kriegswirtschaft und ihre Folgen/War Economy and its Consequences (co-edited with Jochen Streb), Jahrbuch für Wirschaftsgeschichte, vol. 55, 2 (Berlin, 2014). Modell Deutschland: The Development of the West German Economy from a Growth Theoretical and Economic Policy Perspective [in Hungarian] (Pécs, 2006).
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES ‘How peripheral was the periphery: industrialisation in Central Europe since 1870’ (with Alex Klein and Max-Stephan Schulze), in Industrialisation in the Global Periphery, ed. Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS
‘War and Socialism: why Eastern Europe fell behind between 1950 and 1989’, Economic History Review, accepted and forthcoming. ‘The wartime origins of the Wirtschaftswunder: the growth of West German industry, 1938- 1955’, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, vol. 55, 2 (2014), pp. 129-158. ‘The roots of economic failure: what explains East Germany’s falling behind between 1945 and 1950?’ (with Albrecht Ritschl), European Review or Economic History, vol. 18, 2 (2014), pp. 166-184. ‘The bombing of Germany: the economic geography of war-induced dislocation in West German industry’, European Review of Economic History, vol. 16, 1 (2012), pp. 97-118. ‘Socialist industrialisation or post-war reconstruction: understanding Hungarian economic growth, 1949-1967’, Journal of European Economic History, vol. 39, 2 (2010), pp. 253-300. ‘Post-war reconstruction and the golden age of economic growth’, European Review of Economic History, vol. 12, 2 (2008), pp. 221-241.
ARTICLES IN OTHER PERIODICALS
‘Nationalism and falling behind: the failure of national industrialisation, 1924-1939’ [in Hungarian] (with Maria Hidvégi), Korunk, (2012), pp. 56-65. ‘The role of the Marshall Plan in West German economic reconstruction’, Specimina Nova: Yearbook of the History Department, University of Pécs (2005), pp. 261-282.
– 3 – ‘Catching up in Prussian style: sources of economic development in Imperial Germany’ [in Hungarian], Századok, 6 (2003), pp. 1275-1305. ‘Economic policy as a function of social and material interests in Great Britain and Germany, 1870-1914’ [in Hungarian], Világtörténet, 2 (2000), pp. 40-55. ‘Circles of decline and centres of power: geopolitical misconceptions in British foreign policy in 1947-1957’, Specimina Nova: Yearbook of the History Department, University of Pécs (2000), pp. 101-125. ‘Ploughshares into swords: did the German industrial Phoenix push Wilhelm II towards reckless ambition?’, The Concord Review, vol. 9, 4(1999), pp. 175-194.
BOOK REVIEWS
David Greasley and Les Oxley, eds., Economics and History: Surveys in Cliometrics (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Economic History Review, vol. 67, 3 (2014), pp. 890-891.
WORK IN PROGRESS
The Economic Consequences of the War: West Germany’s Growth Miracle after 1945, contract signed with Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2016. ‘Why did socialism fail? The role of factor inputs reconsidered’ (with Alexander Klein), CAGE Working Paper Series, No. 276, submitted to The Journal of Economic History. ‘Economic growth and sectoral developments, 1945-89’, in preparation for The Economic History of Central, East and Southeast Europe: 1800 to the Present, Part 3: The communist period, 1945-1989, ed. Matthias Morys, Routledge. ‘Economic policy under the command economy’ (with Andrei Markevich), in preparation for The Economic History of Central, East and Southeast Europe: 1800 to the Present, Part 3: The communist period, 1945-1989, ed. Matthias Morys, Routledge.
REFEREE FOR
Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Journal of Economic History
PRESENTATIONS
Conferences Economics and Institutions in History, WEast Workshop, VSE, Prague, July 2016 New Perspectives on the Economic History of Central, East and Southeast Europe 1800 to the Present, Regensburg, May 2016 (two papers) European Historical Economics Society Conference, Pisa, September 2015 (two papers) World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, August 2015 Historical Sources of Development in Central and Eastern Europe, WEast Workshop, CEU, Budapest, January 2015 Business Enterprises and European Integration: A Historical Perspective, EUI, Florence, November 2014 Industrialisation in the Global Periphery, All Souls College, Oxford, October 2014
– 4 – European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, April 2014 Economic History Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., September 2013 European Historical Economics Society Conference, London, September 2013 Economic History Society Annual Conference, York, April 2013 World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch RSA, July 2012 (two papers) European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, April 2012 Economic History Society Annual Conference, Oxford, March 2012 European Historical Economics Society Conference, Dublin, September 2011 (two papers) Economic History Society Annual Conference, Cambridge, April 2011 European Historical Economics Society Conference, Geneva, September 2009 World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, August 2009 (two papers)
Invited Presentations University of Warsaw, Warsaw, June 2016 Economic History Colloquium, Berlin, October 2015 Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Groningen, January 2015 School of Economics (VSE), Prague, October 2014 EHES Summer School, Humboldt University, Berlin, September 2014 PAM Seminar, Bocconi, Milan, May 2014 CEIS Seminar, Rome, May 2014 Economic History Colloquium, Berlin, April 2014 Economic History Seminar, Mannheim, April 2013 Contemporary Economic History Seminar, LSE, London, February 2013 Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Groningen, January 2013 Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, May 2012 Graduate Seminar in Economics, Münster, July 2011 Economic and Social History Seminar, Oxford, May 2011 Contemporary History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, April 2010 Fellow Seminar, Collegium Budapest, Budapest, April 2010 Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Groningen, April 2009 Cliometrics Seminar, LSE, London, February 2009 Economic History Seminar, Tübingen, December 2008 Graduate Seminar in Economics, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 2008 Book presentation, Institute of World Economics, Budapest, September 2006
ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Rising Stars Seminars: organiser of a special seminar series for leading young scholars in the social sciences, Bocconi University, Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, August 2015: session organizer ‘Quantitative Economic History of Eastern Europe’ (with Mikolaj Malinowski, Utrecht)
– 5 – European Historical Economics Society Summer School, Berlin, September 2014: Member of the organising committee and contributed to teaching.
European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, April 2014: session organiser ‘Economic Development in the Age of Nation Building: New perspectives on the economic history of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20 centuries’
Economic History Society Annual Conference, York, April 2013: session organiser ‘The Economics of World War II in Britain and Germany’
World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch RSA, July 2012: organiser of two sessions ‘The Quantitative Economic History of Eastern Europe’ (with Alexander Klein, Kent) ‘Revealing the Black Box: Measuring Economic Performance during and in the Aftermath of World War II’ (with Jochen Streb, Mannheim)
European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, April 2012: session organiser ‘Revealing the Black Box: Measuring Economic Performance during and in the Aftermath of World War II’
Conference on the Economic History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, November 2011: convenor and local organiser Maddison Master Class in Economic History and Development: lecture series of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, convenor of the series and organiser of the events in the first year, 2011/2012.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member of: Economic History Association (US), Economic History Society (UK), European Historical Economics Society, Hungarian Historical Society WEast the Eastern European Economic History Initiative, principal organiser European Social Science History Conference, network chair for economic history
Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen, associated member
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES
Policy Papers ‘Solidarity and Growth’ [in Hungarian], HVG, 14 August 2013. ‘Consensual Way Out: Flat Tax System Needs Revision’ [in Hungarian], HVG, 4 April 2012. ‘Nationalism and Falling Behind’ [in Hungarian], Népszabadság, 2 April 2011. ‘The Myth of Growth’ [in Hungarian], Népszabadság, 6 October 2008. ‘Strong Hungary – Week Program’ [in Hungarian], Népszabadság, 17 December 2007. HVG is the leading weekly, Népszabadság the most prominent daily political newspaper in Hungary, both with a centre-left liberal orientation.
Public Appearance Budapest Business School, 2010/11 academic year inaugural address, 2 September 2010
– 6 – LANGUAGE SKILLS
Hungarian: native English: fluent German: fluent (reading, writing), good (speaking)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office, EndNote, SPSS, STATA, MapInfo
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