ISPESH
Innsbruck Student Papers in Economic and Social History
Papers by Students and Papers for Students
ISPESH is a series of the unofficial working area “Economic and Social History” in the context of the Research Platform Experimental and Empirical Economics (eeecon) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Paper usually originate in a respective master course but may be proposed also directly to the organizer.
ISPESH ist eine Reihe des inoffiziellen Arbeitsbereichs „Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte“ im Rahmen der Forschungs-Plattform Experimentelle und Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (eeecon) an der Universität Innsbruck (Österreich). Die Papiere stammen in der Regel aus einem einschlägigen Master-Kurs, sie können aber auch direkt dem Organisator vorgeschlagen werden.
Contact/Kontakt: Andreas Exenberger, Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie, -politik und -geschichte, Universität Innsbruck, Universitätsstraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, e-mail: andreas.exenberger@uibk.ac.at
Recent Papers by and for Students - release in 2019/20:
ISPESH 11 - Chinas Economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping by Andrea Erhart and Georg Hoch (14 pp.)
ISPESH 10 - The Change of a Monetary Policy System: Bretton Woods by Pascal Knips (10 pp.)
In 2017/18, several papers were selected, but could not be published because of organizational reasons.
Papers by and for Students - release in 2016:
ISPESH 9 - Economic Consequences after the Arab Spring: A Comparison of Tunisia and Egypt by Christopher Holzknecht (16 pp.)
ISPESH 8 - Transnational Corporations and Development by Lukas Rainer (24 pp.)
ISPESH 7 - Corruption and Development Aid by Daniela Mayer (11 pp.)
ISPESH 6 - Non-traditional Development Aid and Poverty Reduction: Based on the Example of Microcredit by Hannes Spieglmayr (13 pp.)
Papers by and for Students - release in 2012:
ISPESH 5 - The Effects of Economic Globalisation on Female Human Capital by Julia Grübler (15 pp.)
ISPESH 4 - Conception of Aid and Why Remittances Dominate by Fabian Karg (19 pp.)
ISPESH 3 - The impact of climate change, war/conflicts, and independence on Sub-Sahara African Agriculture: A partial analysis from 1961 to 2000 by Andreas Pondorfer (20 pp.)
Papers by and for Students - released in 2010:
ISPESH 2 - China's "Three Terrible Years" – The Great Leap Famine 1959-1961 by Marlen Mittermair (12 pp.)
ISPESH 1 - Food, Peace and Oil – The Transition of the Role of Grain for the United States, 1860-Present by Andreas Huber (16 pp.)
Papers by and for Students - released in 2009:
IDWRG 32 - Rentier Wealth and Demographic Change in the Middle East and North Africa by Alexander Smith (26 pp.)
SOME MORE PAPERS - not by, but (not only) for students:
Financial Crisis
- Peter Goller (2009): Zu Ursachen und Prognostizierbarkeit von Börsencrashs und Finanzkrisen (12 pp., in German)
Memory and Tradition
- Andreas Exenberger (2005): Denkanstöße im „Gedankenjahr“: Kritisches zum offiziellen Geschichtsbild Österreichs (19 pp., in German)
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