Hans-Joachim Voth

Chair of Economic Development, University of Zurich

PhD, University of Oxford

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Hans-Joachim Voth is Chair of Economic Development at the University of Zurich. He was a BSE Affiliated Professor until 2014.

Working Papers

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From Finance to Fascism

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Sebastian Doerr,Stefan Gissler,José-Luis Peydró, andHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 1092
May 2019
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Debt into Growth: How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution

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Jaume VenturaandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 830
September 2015
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Highway to Hitler

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 769
September 2015
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Reprisals Remembered: German-Greek Conflict and Car Sales during the Euro Crisis

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Vasiliki FoukaandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 726
September 2015
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Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe’s Early Rise to Riches

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 719
September 2015
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Recreating the South Sea Bubble: Lessons from an Experiment in Financial History

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Giovanni Giusti,Charles Noussair, andHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 710
September 2015
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Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany, 1919-33

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Shanker Satyanath,Nico Voigtländer, andHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 703
September 2015
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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008

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Jacopo PonticelliandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 676
September 2015
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State Capacity and Military Conflict

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Nicola GennaioliandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 593
September 2015
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Risk Sharing with the Monarch: Excusable Defaults and Contingent Debt in the Age of Philip II, 1556-1598

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Mauricio DrelichmanandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 578
September 2015
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Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 551
September 2015
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How the West ‘Invented’ Fertility Restriction

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 525
September 2015
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Riding the South See Bubble

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Peter TeminandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 213
September 2015
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Credit Rationing and Crowding out during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare’s Bank, 1702-1862

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Peter TeminandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 211
September 2015
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Financial Repression in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714

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Peter TeminandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 209
September 2015
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Why England? Demand, Growth and Inequality During the Industrial Revolution

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 208
September 2015
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Banking as an Emerging Technology: Hoares Bank 1702-1742

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Peter TeminandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 93
September 2015
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Riding the South Sea Bubble

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Peter TeminandHans-Joachim Voth
BSE Working Paper 91
September 2015

Publications

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Financial crises and political radicalization: How failing banks paved Hitler’s path to power

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Sebastian Doerr, Stefan Gissler, José-Luis Peydró, and Hans-Joachim Voth
Journal of Finance

September 2021
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A Century of Global Equity Market Correlations

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Dennis P QuinnandHans-Joachim Voth
American Economic Review

December 2015
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Banking As an Emerging Technology: Hoare’s Bank, 1702-1742

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Peter TeminandHans-Joachim Voth
Financial History Review

December 2015
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Clark’s Intellectual Sudoku

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Hans-Joachim Voth
European Review of Economic History

December 2015
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Comment on ‘Seat of Death and Terror’

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Timothy LeunigandHans-Joachim Voth
The Economic History Review

December 2015
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Debt Sustainability in Historical Perspective: the Role of Fiscal Repression

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Mauricio DrelichmanandHans-Joachim Voth
Journal of the European Economic Association

December 2015
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Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, Not Love

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
American Economic Review

December 2015
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Private Borrowing During the Financial Revolution: Hoare’s Bank and Its Customers 1702-24 1

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Peter TeminandHans-Joachim Voth
The Economic History Review

December 2015
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Risk Sharing with the Monarch: Contingent Debt and Excusable Defaults in the Age of Philip II, 1556-1598

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Mauricio DrelichmanandHans-Joachim Voth
Cliometrica

December 2015
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Serial Defaults, Serial Profits: Returns to Sovereign Lending in Habsburg Spain, 1566-1600

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Mauricio DrelichmanandHans-Joachim Voth
Explorations in Economic History

December 2015
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The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: a Reconstruction of Castile’s Fiscal Position, 1566-1596

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Mauricio DrelichmanandHans-Joachim Voth
The Journal of Economic History

December 2015
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The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
Review of Economic Studies

December 2015
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Contingent Sovereign Debt Contracts: the Historical Perspective

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Mauricio DrelichmanandHans-Joachim Voth
CESifo DICE Report

January 2013
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Persecution Perpetuated: the Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
Quarterly Journal of Economics

January 2012
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Betting on Hitler–the Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany

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Thomas FergusonandHans-Joachim Voth
Quarterly Journal of Economics

January 2008
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Interest Rate Restrictions in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714

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Peter TeminandHans-Joachim Voth
The Economic Journal

January 2008
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Why England? Demographic Factors, Structural Change and Physical Capital Accumulation During the Industrial Revolution

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Nico VoigtländerandHans-Joachim Voth
Journal of Economic Growth

January 2006
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