I am Professor for Economic and Social History at the Economics Department of the University of Hohenheim. After studies in Marburg, Berlin and Lausanne, I graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2008. Before moving to Stuttgart in 2012, I was senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective goods in Bonn.
I am engaged in several societies and organisations in my field. To name a few, I am President of the European Historical Economics Society, Chair of the field commitee Economic History of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Affiliate in the Economic History Programme at the CEPR, Member of the Directorate of the Eugen-Gutmann-Gesellschaft.
I am an empirical economist and quantitative economic historian. My research spans economic geography and financial history. The results of my work were published, among others, in lead general interest journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics and in lead field journals such as the Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review and Journal of Banking and Finance.
In 2018, my paper “The Berlin Stock Exchange in Imperial Germany – a Market for New Technology?”(joint with Jochen Streb), won the Schmölders prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik. In 2021, Nadja Dwenger and I were awarded a prize for excellent research by the Gips Schüle Stiftung and the University of Hohenheim.
selected publications
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, S. , Neumayer, A., & Streb, J. (2023). Heterogeneous inflation and deflation experiences and savings decisions during German industrialization. Journal of Banking & Finance, 154, 106978.
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, S., Prettner, K., and Tscheuschner, P. (2023). The scientific revolution and its role in the transition to sustained economic growth. World Development, 168, 106262.
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, S. and Wahl, F. (2020): The German bank–growth nexus revisited: savings banks and economic growth in Prussia. Economic History Review, 74(1), 204-222.
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, S., and Streb, J. (2020). Discrimination against Foreigners: The Wuerttemberg Patent Law in Administrative Practice. The Journal of Economic History, 80(4), 1071-1100.
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, S and Streb, J. (2016): The Berlin Stock Exchange in Imperial Germany – a Market for New Technology? American Economic Review, 106(11), 3558–3576.
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, S., Hauber, P., Opitz, A. (2014): The political stock market in the German Kaiserreich – do markets punish the extension of the suffrage to the benefit of the working class? Evidence from Saxony. Journal of Economic History, 74 (4), 1140-1167.
Lehmann S. (2014): Taking Firms to the Stock Market: IPOs and the Importance of Large Banks in Imperial Germany 1896-1913. Economic History Review , 67(1), 92–122.
Lehmann S. and O’Rourke K. H. (2011): The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century. Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(2), 606–616.
Lehmann S. (2010): The German elections in the 1870s: who caused the turn towards protectionism? Journal of Economic History, 70(01), 146-178.
Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer 