Research Focus

Financial and economic history, Corporate Governance, Patent markets, Historical macroeconomics

Academic Career

• since 03/2007, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
• Spring 2009, Visiting Academic, Yale University, Department of Economics
• Spring 2005 and Spring 2008, Visiting Academic, University of Warwick, Department of Economics
• 08/2003-02/2007, Assistant Professor, Münster University, Department of Economics, Institute for Economic History
• 02/2000-07/2003, Researcher, Center for Development Research, Bonn University
• 2005, Habiliation in Economics, Münster University
• 2002, Dr. phil., Constitutional, Social, and Economic History, Bonn University
• 2000, Dipl. Volkswirt, Bonn University

Current research projects

Initial public offerings and capital market development in the German Empire, 1871-1913 funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2008-2010

The market for patents and innovations in Imperial Germany, 1877-1913
funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2005-2010

The credit policy of German banks before and during the 1931 banking crisis
funded by Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, 2009-2011.

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Publications

Burhop C., Lübbers T., Incentives and Innovation? R&D Management in Germany's Chemical and Electrical Engineering Industries around 1900, Explorations in Economic History, In Press. Preprint

Burhop C., Bayer C., Real Wages and Labour Productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: A Unified Approach to the International Comparison of Living Standards, Journal of Economic History, In Press. Preprint

Burhop C., Lübbers T., The design of licensing contracts: Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Electrical Engineering in Imperial Germany, issue 2011/18, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2011. Abstract Full text

Burhop C., Chambers D., Cheffins B., Is Regulation Essential to Stock Market Development? Going Public in London and Berlin, 1900-1913, issue 2011/15, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2011. Abstract Full text

Burhop C., Gelman S., Liquidity measures, liquidity drivers and expected returns on an early call auction market, issue 2011/19, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2011. Abstract Full text

Burhop C., The underpricing of initial public offerings at the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1870-1896, German Economic Review, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 11-32, 2011. Preprint

Traxler C., Burhop C., Poverty and crime in 19th century Germany: A reassessment, issue 2010/35, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010. Abstract Full text

Burhop C., Gelman S., Transaction costs, liquidity and expected returns at the Berlin Stock Exchange, 1892-1913 [updated version: MPI Preprint 2011/19], issue 2010/20, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010.

Burhop C., Der Transfer von Patenten im Deutschen Kaiserreich und die Rolle von Patentanwälten als Intermediäre, Die Finanzierung von Innovationen, Kollmer-von-Oheimb-Loup G., Streb J., (Eds.), Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, pp. 35-53, 2010.

Burhop C., Banking Crises in Germany: 1873-1974, Die internationale Finanzkrise: Was an ihr ist neu, was alt? Worauf muss in Zukunft geachtet werden? 31. Symposium des Instituts für bankhistorische Forschung e. V. am 10. Juni 2009 im Hause der Deutschen Bundesbank, vol. 47, Stuttgart, pp. 73-88, 2009.

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