Keynote
Professor Nikolaus Wolf
Nikolaus Wolf holds the Chair of Economics and Economic History at Humboldt University Berlin, where he has taught since 2010. Professor Wolf is an economic historian with interests in trade, economic geography, international macroeconomics and social identity. He previously held positions at the University of Warwick, Free University Berlin and the London School of Economics and is currently a Research Fellow at CEPR (International Trade and Regional Economics and Economic History). Between 2013-2019, he was Editor in Chief of the European Review of Economic History. In 2018, he was one of the authors awarded the Frisch Medal (joint with Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Stephen Redding, and Daniel Sturm), for the best applied (empirical or theoretical) paper published in Econometrica during the previous five years, for their article ‘The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall’. According to the award report the paper ‘breaks genuinely new ground in the modeling of cities and the spatial organization of economic activity’. More info on the keynote lecture will follow in due time.
Co-referate by Professor Marijn Molema
The co-referate to Professor Wolf’s keynote will be by Professor Marijn Molema. Professor Molema is Professor by special appointment on ‘Regional Vitality & Dynamics’, embedded in the chair group Economic and Social History of the University of Groningen. He combines this post with his work as Program manager at the Frisian Institute of Social Research in Leeuwarden. His research and teaching explores new methodologies that connect historical studies with policies for the development of regions within the (Northern) Netherlands. His co-referate is entitled ‘Economic development from below. A reflection on the keynote of Professor Wolf’.