CURRICULUM VITAE KIRSTEN WANDSCHNEIDER Office Address: Economics Department Occidental College 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA 90041, U.S.A. Phone: (323) 259-2932 E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION • May 2003: Ph.D., Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. • May 2001: Master of Science, Finance, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. • August 1997–May 1998: Non-degree Studies, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Ur- bana, IL. • October 1995–July 1997: Undergraduate Studies, Economics, Universitat¨ Kiel, Germany (Vordiplom, May 1997). FIELDS OF RESEARCH European Economic and Financial History, Political Economy of Financial Institutions, International Finance, Macroeconomics. TEACHING INTERESTS Macroeconomics (course evaluations 6.55/7), International Finance (course evaluations 6.88/7), In- ternational Economics (course evaluations 6.50/7), Economic History (course evaluations 6.79/7), Introduction to Economics (course evaluations 6.30/7). APPOINTMENTS • 2017–present: Professor of Economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. • 2017–present: Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). 1 • 2015–2018: Chair of the Economics Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. • 2010–2017: Associate Professor of Economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. • 2007–2010: Assistant Professor of Economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. • 2003–2007: Assistant Professor of Economics and International Politics and Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. RESEARCH VISITS • January–July 2019: Research visit, Westfalische¨ Wilhelms Universitat,¨ Munster,¨ Germany. • September–December 2014 and January–June 2011: Research Visit, Department of Economics, Uni- versity of California, Los Angeles, CA. • September–December 2010: Research Visit, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. • July–August 2006: Research Visit, Chaire Finances Internationales, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Sci- ences Po, Paris, France. • June–August 2004: Research Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies, ZEI, Bonn, Germany. PUBLICATIONS • “Landschaften as Credit Purveyors - The Example of East Prussia,” Journal of Economic History Vol. 75(3), pp. 791-818, 2015. • “Capital Controls and Recovery from Financial Crises: Evidence from the 1930s” (with Kris James Mitchener), Journal of International Economics Vol. 95 pp. 188–201, 2015; also available as CEPR discussion paper No. 10019, June 2014 and NBER working paper No. 20220, 2014. • “Lending to Lemons: Landschafts Credit in 18th Century Prussia” in Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective, by P. Fishback, K. Snowden and E. White (eds.), NBER Conference Vol- ume, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2014. Also available as NBER working paper, No 19159, 2013. • “Financing and Refinancing the War of the Spanish Succession, and then Refinancing the South Sea Company” (with Ann M. Carlos, Erin K. Fletcher and Larry Neal), in Questioning Credible Commit- ment, New Perspectives on the Rise of Financial Capitalism, by D’Maris Coffman, Adrian Leonard and Larry Neal (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. • “Financial Crisis in the Interwar Period, 1918-1939: Experiences Then and Lessons for Today” Re- vista de la Historia de la Economia y de la Empresa, VII, pp. 99-117, 2013. 2 • “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. • “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 • “Landownership and Credit in 19th Century East Prussia,” in progress. • “Rural Credit in 19th Century Prussia: Comparing Pfandbrief Prices,” in progress. BOOK REVIEWS • Review of Dieter Lindenlaub, Carsten Burhop and Joachim Scholtyseck (eds.) Schlusselereignisse¨ der deutschen Bankengeschichte, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 74(04), pp. 1226-1228, December 2014. 3 • 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 • Research Grant, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), 2013–2016. • Schwartz Faculty Scholarship, Occidental College, 2016–2018. • CDLA Faculty Fellowship, Occidental College, Fall 2015. • Robinson Scholarship, Occidental College, 2008 – 2015. • Faculty Enrichment Grant, Occidental College, Summer 2010, 2012, and 2017. • MacArthur International Grant, Occidental College, Summer 2011 and 2019. • Research Stipend, Secret Prussian State Archive, Berlin, Germany, September–October 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. • Lincoln Education Fund, Dissertation Support, Spring 2002 and Spring 2003. 4 INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS • 2016: University of Connecticut. • 2015: University of California, Los Angeles; Universitat¨ Bayreuth, Germany. • 2013: University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine. • 2012: University of California, Davis; Yale University; HWR (Hochschule fur¨ Wirtschaft und Recht), Berlin, Germany. • 2011: University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of Technology. Universitat¨ Hohen- heim, Germany. • 2010: Universitat¨ Freiburg, Germany; HWR (Hochschule fur¨ Wirtschaft und Recht), Berlin, Ger- many; Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. • 2009: University of California, Los Angeles. • 2007: Beloit College, Beloit, WI; Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL; Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; Occidental College, Los Angeles. • 2005: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. • 2004: Center for European Integration Studies, Bonn, Germany; University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. • 2003: Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. • 2002: University of California, Berkeley. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS • 2018: World Economic History Conference, Boston, MA • 2015: Early Modern Conference, California Institute of Technology, CA; Workshop on Monetary and Financial History, Atlanta Fed. • 2013: American Economic Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA; All-UC Economic History Conference, Pasadena, CA (Discussant on Dippel); Capitalizing on Finance, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA (session leader). • 2012: Workshop on Information, Intermediation and Financial Markets, Riverside, CA; Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. 5 • 2011: All-UC Economic History Conference, Pasadena, CA; First Annual AEA Conference on Teach- ing Economics and Research in Economic Education, Palo Alto, CA,(discussant on Hazlett); NBER Universities Research Conference on Historical Origins of Mortgage Markets, Boston, MA. • 2010: Conference on Intermediaries and Intermediation in Capital Markets: A Global Historical Approach, Utrecht, Netherlands;