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email: paul.sharp@econ.ku.dk
My CV
 
 

Published papers

 From Preventive to Permissive Checks: The changing nature of the Malthusian relationship between nuptiality and the price of provisions in the nineteenth century (with Jacob Weisdorf)

Cliometrica 3:1, pp. 55-70
  A malthusian model for all seasons (with Jacob Weisdorf)

Economics Bulletin 29:2, pp. 776-781
 

Malta and the Nineteenth Century Grain Trade: British free trade in a microcosm of Empire?

Journal of Maltese History 1:2, pp. 20-33
  1846 and All That: The rise and fall of British wheat protection in the nineteenth century

Agricultural History Review 58:1, pp. 76-94

Books

 Chapters 8 and 9 in Karl Gunnar Persson's An Economic History of Europe

Working papers

 On the origins of the Atlantic Economy: Five stylized facts about the American grain invasion of Britain, 1829-1929

[published in EHS Annual Conference 2007 programme, p. 161]
  Pushing Wheat: Why Supply Mattered for the American Grain Invasion of Britain in the Nineteenth Century

Department of Economics, Copenhagen Discussion Paper 08-08
  The Cost of Ignorance: Reputational Rents in the Market for Tuscan Reds (with Karl Gunnar Persson)

Department of Economics, Copenhagen Discussion Paper 07-11
  Much ado about nothing? Why American farmers were angry in the Grain Invasion era, 1870-1900 (with Karl Gunnar Persson)
  Malthus in Cointegration Space: A new look at living standards and population in pre-industrial England (with Niels Framroze Møller)

Department of Economics, Copenhagen Discussion Paper 08-16
  The Long American Grain Invasion of Britain: Market integration and the wheat trade between North America and Britain from the Eighteenth Century

Department of Economics, Copenhagen Discussion Paper 08-20
  Something Rational in the State of Denmark? The Case of an Outsider in the Cobden-Chevalier Network 1860-1875 (with Markus Lampe)

Department of Economics, Copenhagen Discussion Paper 09-20
  The Strange Birth of Liberal Denmark: Danish trade protection and the growth of the dairy industry since the mid-nineteenth century (with Ingrid Henriksen and Markus Lampe)

Department of Economics, Copenhagen Discussion Paper 10-04
  The Determinants of Subsistence Income in a Malthusian World (with Holger Strulik and Jacob Weisdorf)

Hitotsubashi University, Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper No. 133
  Religious Orders and Growth in Pre-Industrial England: Growth Through Cultural Change (with Thomas Barnebeck Andersen, Jeanet Bentzen and Carl-Johan Dalgaard)
  Malthus in Northern Italy? A cointegration approach (with Claudia Riani)
   

Press coverage!

 The Guardian, April 2, 2007

VOX (CEPR), 16 May 2008

Prizes won!

 Best new researcher's paper, Economic History Society Conference 2007

William Shakespeare prize, Sixth World Congress of Cliometrics, Edinburgh 2008 ;-)

Events I have helped/am helping organize:

 Sound Economic History Workshop

PhD Courses with Greg Clark, Jeff Williamson and Nick Crafts

Teaching:
 

Spring 2010:

Seminar "Topics in Economic History"

Autumn 2009:

Danmarks Økonomiske Historie

Spring 2009:

Economic History of Globalization

Slides for guest lecture February 19, 2009

Autumn 2008:

Europe in the World Economy

Slides for guest lecture October 20, 2008

Autumn 2007:

Europe in the World Economy

Autumn 2006:

Europe in the World Economy (Guest lectures)

Spring 2006:

Europe in the World Economy (Guest lectures)

Autumn 2005:

Economic History of Europe (Guest lecture, November 8)

Intermediate Econometrics      (Class 1 slides)

Economic History of Globalization (Guest lecture, week 36)

Academic Writing Seminar (for International Students)

Spring 2005:

Economic History of Europe

(Supervisor for International Students)

Introductory Macroeconomics

Introductory Econometrics

Autumn 2004:

Economic History of Europe

(Supervisor for International Students)

International Economics (Project supervision)

Economic History of Globalization (Guest Lectures, week 39)

Academic Writing Seminar (for International Students)

Introductory Microeconomics

Spring 2004:

Economic History of Europe

(Supervisor for International Students)

Introductory Macroeconomics

Introductory Econometrics

Autumn 2003:

Economic History of Europe

(Supervisor for International Students)

Introductory Microeconomics