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