Globalization and National Economic Policy

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Container Terminal Altenwerder in the Port of Hamburg, 2013. Photo: Dirtsc, Phb dt 8110 CTA, CC BY-SA 3.0

Since the Second World War – and with an accelerating speed since the 1970s and again the 1990 – transnational economic interdependencies increased. How did entrepreneurial and business decisions as well national and international economic policies influence this process, which is often referred to as globalization? And which consequences did it have for business and politics? How did historical actors react to ensuing crises, structural changes and new political circumstances? The projects in this research area address these and other questions at the micro- and meso-level with a particular focus on Germany but also in comparative perspective.

Projekte

Johannes Frey

The National Negotiation of European Monetary Integration: Debates and Decisions in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1979-1992

PhD project
The project thus pursues the question of when and under what conditions a majority-supporting course toward deeper monetary integration emerged -- and of what importance economic arguments were.

Ralf Ahrens

Politics and Financial Markets since the 1970s

Research project
Concentrating on monetary and capital market policy in Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s, this research project examines the tensions between increasing market orientation and persisting regulatory claims.

Lena Senoner

“Halved Globalization?" The Business Practices and Scope of Action of the GDR Foreign Trade Organizations

PhD project

The project examines how individual foreign trade transactions of the GDR took place and what role the state-monopolized foreign trade enterprises played in the preparation and execution of those transactions.

Christopher Banditt

Social Inequality in East Germany 1980–2000. The Material Situations of Employee Households in Changing Times

PhD project

The project analyses the socio-economic situation of East German employee households in the period between 1980 and 2000 - i.e. beyond the epochal caesura of 1989/90.

André Steiner

Economic History of Globalisation

Research project
The project deals with the internationalisation of the economy from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, analyzing it from the perspective of German companies.