Research interests

Late medieval and early modern economic history; the Holy Roman Empire; economic and specifically monetary politics. 

Current projects

The political economy of the Holy Roman Empire; state formation and market integration.

Professor Volckart’s monograph The Silver Empire: How Germany Created its First Common Currency came out in March 2024 (Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198894483). 

Teaching

EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity

EH314 Political economy and economic policies: Europe from the High Middle Ages to the French Revolution

EH390 Dissertation in Economic and Social History

EH443 The history of Premodern Money

Select publications - please also see highlighted publications:

The Silver Empire: How Germany Created its First Common Currency. Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2024.

"Voting Like Your Betters: The Bandwagon Effect in the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire," German History 41, no. 1 (2023): 1-20.

(with G. Federico and M.-S. Schulze) "European Goods Market Integration in the Very Long Run: From the Black Death to the First World War", Journal of Economic History, no. 1 (2021): 276-308

"The Dear Old Holy Roman Realm: How Does it Hold Together? Monetary Policies, Cross-cutting Cleavages and Political Cohesion in the Age of Reformation", in German History 38,4 (2020): 365-86. Awarded the German History Society Article Prize as best article submitted in 2019.

"Bimetallism and its Discontents: Cooperation and Coordination Failure in the Empire’s Monetary Policies, 1549-59", in Journal of Social and Economic History 105,2 (2018), pp. 201-220.

(with M.-S. Schulze and D. Chilosi) "Benefits of Empire: Capital market integration north and south of the Alps, 1350-1800", in The Journal of Economic History 78,3 (2018), pp. 637-672.

View Professor Volckart's CV here:  Oliver Volckart CV

View Professor Volckart's selected publication list here: Oliver Volckart Publications