National and international market integration in the 19th century: Evidence from comovement

Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective

“…Second, there is new evidence that the East was exporting only some particular products (grain) to some particular markets (especially Britain), but hardly to Western parts of Prussia. Recent studies show that during the 19 th century domestic Prussian grain markets stayed highly fragmented (Kopsidis 2002;Uebele 2009). Even after the political unification of Germany in 1871 there is evidence for a high degree of internal fragmentation, especially a strong internal east-west divide in domestic trade in agricultural as well as in other commodities (Wolf 2009).…”

Review of periodical literature published in 2011

“…Roy's article on the indigo sector in India suggests that the coding of commercial law was influenced more by commercialization than by the nature of the state and that it was an endogenous response by British merchants to the failure of local custom and common law to secure frictionless trade. Uebele analyses relative wheat price fluctuations to investigate market integration among 72 European and US cities. Human capital and professional training were also topics that contributed to this strand of literature.…”

Output growth in German manufacturing, 1907–1936. A reinterpretation of time-series evidence

“…Second, my approach is closely linked to multivariate dynamic factor models that estimate co-movement across various observed series. This research avenue has been explored by Sarferaz and Uebele (2009) and Uebele (2011) in an attempt to track down business-cycle movements in pre-WWI Germany. To the best of my knowledge, this study is the first in the field of economic history to combine the two by using the state-space form in a multivariate setting for estimating common components.…”