Wintersemester 25/26: The History and Political Economy of Offshore Financial Centres

Books
van Leeuwen, B., Didenko, D., Calabrese, M, and Wang, M. (2025). Innovation and Economic Development in Eurasia, 500 BCE-Present. The Roots of Divergence. Frontiers in Economic History, Springer Nature (accepted, forthcoming in August 2025)

Published Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Calabrese M., & Giacomin V. (2025). “Business networks in small states: the emergence and evolution of Luxemburg global mutual fund industry (1945-1988)”, Business History Review (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680525000157 )
• Calabrese, M. & van Leeuwen, B. (2024). “Occupational Titles in Census Data: England and Wales” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_02039
• Calabrese, M. & van Leeuwen, B. (2024). “’Time in office’ of city mayors and economic convergence, c. 1870–present”, Journal of European Economic History
• Calabrese, M. & Majerus, B. (2023). “Archeology of a treasure island. Actors and practices of holding companies in Luxembourg (1929-1940)”, Contemporary European History. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777323000437
• van Leeuwen, B., Calabrese, M., & Wang, M. (2023). “Italy’s total factor productivity in a global economy: growth and spillover effects (1400-2010)”, Italian Economic Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-023-00221-x
• Calabrese, M., Philips, R. C. M., Keenan, R. & van Leeuwen, B. (2022). “The Occupational Structure of England and Wales: The 1939 National Register”, Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10026
• Philips, R. C. M., Calabrese, M., Keenan, R. & van Leeuwen, B. (2022). “The regional occupational structure in interwar England and Wales”, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2022.2027303