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 2015–present, Chair of the Economics Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. • 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 Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (third year review completed successfully in 2005). • May 2003: Ph.D., Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. • May 2001: Master of Science, Finance, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. RESEARCH VISITS • September 2014–December 2014 and January 2011–June 2011: Research Visit, Department of Economics, 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, Germany. • July 1999: Intern at Deutsche Bank Research, Frankfurt, Germany.

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FIELDS OF RESEARCH European Economic and Financial History, Political Economy of Financial Institutions, International Finance, Macroeconomics. TEACHING INTERESTS Economic History, International Finance, Macroeconomics, 20th Century European Economies. 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 Volume, 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 Commitment, 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” Revista de la Historia de la Economia y de la Empresa, VII, pp. 99-117, 2013. • “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 Economics 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), Cliometrica, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 97-121, June 2009. 2

• “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 Economic 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 Kilchevsky), 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,” working paper. • “The Chilean Nitrate Industry: External Shocks and Policy Responses 1880–1935” (with Richard Sicotte and Catalina Vizcarra), working paper. • “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 Dieter Lindenlaub, Carsten Burhop and Joachim Scholtyseck (eds.) Schl¨usselereignisse der deutschen Bankengeschichte, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 74(04), pp. 1226-1228, December 2014. • 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 International Monetary Order. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 68(01), pp. 333-334, February 2008. 3

• 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, 2013–2016. • Robinson Scholarship, Occidental College, 2008 – 2015. • Faculty Enrichment Grant, Occidental College, Summer 2010 and 2012. • MacArthur International Grant, Occidental College, Summer 2011. • 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, Summer 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. • Starr Grant from Middlebury College to spend one month at Freie Universit¨at 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 • 2015: University of California, Los Angeles.

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• 2013: University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine. • 2012: University of California, Davis; Yale University; HWR (Hochschule f¨ur Wirtschaft und Recht), Berlin, Germany. • 2011: University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of Technology. Universit¨at Hohenheim, Germany. • 2010: Universit¨at Freiburg, Germany; HWR (Hochschule f¨ur Wirtschaft und Recht), Berlin, Germany; 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, October 2004. • 2003: Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT. • 2002: University of California, Berkeley. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS • 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. • 2011: All-UC Economic History Conference, Pasadena, CA; First Annual AEA Conference on Teaching 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; Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Evanston, IL. • 2009: All-UC Economic History Conference, Riverside, CA, (session chair); Economic History World Congress, Utrecht, Netherlands. 5

• 2008: All-UC Economic History Conference, Pasadena, CA, (discussant on Hoffman, Postel-Vinay, and Rosenthal); Workshop on the 10th Anniversary of the Euro, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, November 2008. • 2007: Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. • 2006: Conference on “The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions”, Urbana, IL; International Economic History Association Congress, Helsinki, Finland; ISNIE Meeting, Boulder, CO, (discussant on Maurer, Mitchener and Weidenmier); Canadian Network for Economic History Meeting, Vancouver, BC. • 2005: X th Symposium of Economic History, Barcelona, Spain; Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY; Canadian Network for Economic History Meetings, Kingston, ON; NBER Summer Institute on the Development of the American Economy, Boston, MA; European Economic History Association Meetings, Istanbul, Turkey; Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON. • 2004: Business History Conference, Le Creusot, France; Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. • 2003: NBER Conference on Developing and Sustaining Financial Markets, Boston, MA, December 2003 (discussant on Flandreau and Sussman). • 2002: All-UC Economic History Conference, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA. • 2001: Economic History Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (poster session). WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION • Conference on Inclusivity in Economics, Pomona, CA, January 2016. • ACE Workshop for Department Chairs, Long Beach, CA, January 2013. • 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 Francisco, CA, July 2005. • New Faculty Teaching Workshop, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, January 2004. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Economic History. • Chair, Committee on Research in Economic History 6

• Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Education, European Economic Review, Financial History Review Explorations in Economic History, and European Economic History Review. SERVICE AT OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE • Member of Faculty Council (elected by the faculty), 2011–2014. • Member of Subcommittee on Finance (SCOF), 2008-10, 2011-13. • Member of Budget Advisory Committee, 2011-14. • Chair, Search Committee for tenure-track Assistant Professor, Economics Department, 2011/12, 2014/15. • Member, Search Committee for tenure-track Assistant Professor, Economics Department, 2009/10, 2012/13, 2013/14. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Economics Association, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Economic History Association, Verein f¨ur Socialpolitik (German Economics Association). LANGUAGES German (mother tongue), English (near–native), French (advanced proficiency, Diplˆome de Franc¸ais des Affaires). COMPUTER SKILLS RATS, STATA, LATEX, Word, Excel, PowerPoint PERSONAL DATA Dual citizenship, Germany and United States. (updated: January 2016).

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