Paris Empirical Political Economy Seminar (PEPES) with Davide CANTONI (LMU)

Davide Cantoni is Professor of Economics Economic History at the Department of Economics of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) where he is also the Chair. He is also an Ordinary Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a Council member for the European Economic Association (EEA), a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Member of the CESifo Research Network. Along his editorial duties, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies and of the American Economic Review. He is also member of the Board of Directors of the Review of Economic Studies.

His research fields are Economic History, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics. He is especially interested in the economic history of Germany before 1900, in institutional and cultural change, in the political economy of education and of mass movements. He has been awarded two European Research Council (ERC) grants: a starting grant for his project Demand for Democracy and a consolidator grant for The City Rising.  In 2019, he was awarded the Gossen Prize for the best young economist (under 45) in the German-speaking countries.

Davide Cantoni's website

He will present a paper, joint with Matthias Weigand and Cathrin Mohr, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:

Identity and Institutional Change: Evidence from First Names in Germany, 1700–1850 (read abstract, PDF 45,5 KB)

The next PEPES Seminar will host Melanie Meng XUE (LSE) on May 15th.