CURRICULUM VITAE

KIRSTEN WANDSCHNEIDER

Office Address: Economics Department Occidental College Los Angeles, CA 90041, U.S.A. Phone: (323) 259-2932 E-mail: [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• May 2010–present: Associate Professor of Economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.

• August 2007–May 2010: Assistant Professor of Economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.

• September 2003–July 2007: Assistant Professor of Economics and International Politics and Eco- nomics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (third year review completed successfully in 2005).

• May 2003: Ph.D., Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

• May 2001: Master of Science, Department of Finance, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

RESEARCH VISITS

• January 2011–June 2011: Research Visit, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

• September 2010–December 2010: Research Visit, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

• July 2006–August 2006: Research Visit, Chaire Finances Internationales, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Sciences Po, Paris, France.

• June 2004–August 2004: Research Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies, ZEI, Bonn, Ger- many.

PUBLICATIONS

• “Southern African Economic Integration: Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model” (with Optat Tengia, Thierry Warin and Phanindra Wunnava), IZA discussion paper 4316 (2010), published in African Finance Journal Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-13, 2011.

1 • “Military Conquest and Sovereign Debt: Chile, Peru and the London Bond Market, 1876–1890” (with Richard Sicotte and Catalina Vizcarra), Cliometrica, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 293-319, October 2010.

• “Shooting on a Moving Target: Explaining European Bank Rates during the Interwar Period” (with Nikolaus Wolf), CESifo Working Paper No. 2694 (2009), published in International Journal of Eco- nomics and Business Research Vol. 2 No. 1/2, pp. 31-48, 2010.

• “The Fiscal Impact of the War of the Pacific” (with Richard Sicotte and Catalina Vizcarra), Cliomet- rica, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 97-121, June 2009.

• “Central Bank Reaction Functions during the Interwar Gold Standard: A View from the Periphery”, The Evolution of Financial Markets and Institutions from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Jeremy Atack and Larry Neal (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2009.

• “The Stability of the Interwar Gold Exchange Standard – Did Politics Matter?”, The Journal of Eco- nomic History, Vol. 68(01), pp. 151-181, March 2008.

• “The Effect of Political Regimes and Technology on Economic Growth” (with Khurram Jamali and Phanindra Wunnava), Applied Economics, Vol. 39, pp. 1425-32, July 2007.

• “Peace and Economic Interdependence in the Middle East” (with Jeffrey Cason and Amichai Kilchev- sky), The World Economy, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-64, April 2007.

• “The Baring Crisis and the Brazilian Encilhamento, 1889–1891: An Early Example of Contagion among Emerging Capital Markets” (with Gail Triner), Financial History Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 199-225, October 2005.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• “Crisis Transmission during the Great Depression: A Case Study of Central Europe” revise and re- submit at the European Economic History Review.

• “Lending to Lemons: Landschafts Credit in 18th century Prussia,” working paper. In preparation for the NBER-University of Chicago Press conference volume on Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective.

• “Landschaften as Credit Purveyors - The Example of East Prussia,” working paper.

• “Capital Controls and Recovery from Financial Crises: Evidence from the 1930s” (with Kris James Mitchener), working paper.

• “The Chilean Nitrate Industry: External Shocks and Policy Responses 1880–1935” (with Richard Sicotte and Catalina Vizcarra), working paper.

2 • “Networks and Market Makers in the First Emerging Market: Bank of England Shares, London 1720” (with Ann Carlos and Larry Neal), working paper.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of Karl Gunnar Persson, An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present, EH.NET, November 2010.

• Review of Martin Wolf, Fixing Global Finance. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, August 2009.

• Review of Christopher Kobrak, Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present. Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 39(4), pp. 583-84, Spring 2009.

• Review of Filippo Cesarano, Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an Inter- national Monetary Order. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 68(01), pp. 333-334, February 2008.

• Review of Derek H. Aldcroft, Europe’s Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years. Australian Economic History Review, Vol.47, No.3, November 2007.

• Review of Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, and Harold James, eds, International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, June 2005.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• MacArthur International Grant, Occidental College, Summer 2011.

• Robinson Scholarship, Occidental College, 2008 – 2012.

• Research Stipend, Secret Prussian State Archive, Berlin, Germany, September–October 2010.

• Faculty Enrichment Grant, Occidental College, Summer 2010.

• Teaching Innovations Program, Certificate of Achievement, January 2009.

• Presidential Fellowship to attend Session 445 of the Salzburg Global Seminar, “Challenges to the International Monetary System: Rebalancing Currencies, Institutions and Rules”, Salzburg, Austria, October 2007.

• Arthur H. Cole Grant-in-Aid from the Economic History Association for research in Germany, Sum- mer 2007.

• Dissertation selected for the dissertation competition at the IEHA Meetings in Helsinki, 2006.

• Nominated for the Marjorie Lamberti Faculty Appreciation Award, Middlebury College, May 2006.

3 • Starr Grant from Middlebury College to spend one month at Freie Universitat¨ in Berlin, Germany, January 2006. • Ada Howe Kent Faculty Fellowship, Middlebury College, Summer 2004. • Lincoln Education Fund, Dissertation Support, Spring 2002 and Spring 2003. • European Union Center at the University of Illinois, Summer Study Abroad Grant, Summer 1999. • Graduate Teaching Certificate, University of Illinois, May 1999.

INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS • Yale University, October 2012 (scheduled). • University of California, Davis, May 2012. • California Institute of Technology, November 2011. • University of California, Los Angeles, April 2011. • Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, December 2010. • HWR (Hochschule fur¨ Wirtschaft und Recht), Berlin, Germany, December 2010. • Freiburg University, Germany, March 2010. • University of California, Los Angeles, April 2009. • Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, March 2007. • Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, January 2007. • Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, January 2007. • Beloit College, Beloit, WI, January 2007. • Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, November 2005. • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, March 2005. • University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 2004. • Center for European Integration Studies, Bonn, Germany, July 2004. • Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, January 2003. • University of California, Berkeley, September 2002.

4 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• American Economic Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2013 (scheduled).

• Economics History Association, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, September 2012 (scheduled).

• Workshop on Information, Intermediation and Financial Markets, Riverside, CA, January 2012.

• NBER Universities Research Conference on Historical Origins of Mortgage Markets, Boston, MA, September 2011.

• First Annual AEA Conference on Teaching Economics and Research in Economic Education, Palo Alto, CA, June 2011 (discussant on Hazlett).

• All-UC Economic History Conference, Pasadena, CA, May 2011.

• Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Evanston, IL, September 2010.

• Conference on Intermediaries and Intermediation in Capital Markets: A Global Historical Approach, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2010.

• Economic History World Congress, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2009.

• All-UC Economic History Conference, Riverside, CA, May 2009 (session chair).

• Workshop on the 10th Anniversary of the Euro, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, November 2008.

• All-UC Economic History Conference, Pasadena, CA, May 2008 (discussant on Hoffman, Postel- Vinay, and Rosenthal).

• Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, September 2007.

• Canadian Network for Economic History Meeting, Vancouver, BC, October 2006.

• ISNIE Meeting, Boulder, CO, September 2006 (discussant on Maurer, Mitchener and Weidenmier).

• International Economic History Association Congress, Helsinki, Finland, August 2006.

• Conference on “The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions”, Urbana, IL, April 2006.

• Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, September 2005.

• European Economic History Association Meetings, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2005.

• NBER Summer Institute on the Development of the American Economy, Boston, MA, July 2005.

5 • Canadian Network for Economic History Meetings, Kingston, ON, April 2005.

• Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March 2005.

• Xth Symposium of Economic History, Barcelona, Spain, January 2005.

• Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2004.

• Business History Conference, Le Creusot, France, June 2004.

• NBER Conference on Developing and Sustaining Financial Markets, Boston, MA, December 2003 (discussant on Flandreau and Sussman).

• All-UC Economic History Conference, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, November 2002.

• Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2001 (poster session).

WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

• Teaching Innovations Program in Economics, Santa Fe Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, June 2006.

• Mentoring Workshop, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, San Fran- cisco, CA, July 2005.

• New Faculty Teaching Workshop, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, January 2004.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer for Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Education, European Economic Review, Explorations in Economic History, and European Economic History Review.

SERVICE AT OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE

• Chair, Search Committee for tenure-track Assistant Professor, Economics Department, 2011/12.

• Member of Faculty Council (elected by the faculty), 2011-ongoing.

• Member, Search Committee for tenure-track Assistant Professor, Economics Department, 2009/10.

• Subcommittee on Finance (SCOF), Faculty Member, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2011-12.

6 MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Economics Association, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Economic History Association, Verein fur¨ Socialpolitik (German Economics Association).

LANGUAGES

German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (advanced proficiency, Diplomeˆ de Franc¸ais des Affaires, 2001).

PERSONAL DATA

Citizen of Germany, U.S. Permanent Resident.

(updated: June 2012).

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