Jochen Streb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1108137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jochen Streb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jochen |
| FAMILY NAME | Streb |
| SIGNATURE | STREB J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hohenheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7812-7923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Obituary for Eckart Schremmer
Foreword by the new Managing Editor
Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy by B. Zorina Khan
Reviewed by: Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy by B. Zorina Khan Jochen Streb (bio) Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy By B. Zorina Khan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 462. Economic historians have often delved into the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Europe with this question: "Why Britain?" In this book, B. Zorina Khan, one of the world's leading experts on the history of …
The Introduction of Bismarck's Social Security System and its Effects on Marriage and Fertility in Prussia
Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should induce couples to substitute away from children in the allocation of wealth. We test this claim using the introduction of social insurance in Germany in t…
Discrimination against Foreigners: The Wuerttemberg Patent Law in Administrative Practice
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the patent office of the German state Wuerttemberg strategically discriminated against foreign inventors by charging comparatively high patent fees. We show that this administrative practice was driven by fiscal and protectionist motives
Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation
Erfahrung und Erwartung – eine vernachlässigte wirtschaftshistorische Perspektive
The DFG Priority Programme “Experience and Expectation – Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour” explores how economic actors form their expectations under certain historical conditions. This project’s main hypothesis is that the formation of economic expectations is a complex process that cannot be explained solely by simple concepts such as adaptive or rational expectations, and is shaped by historical events and experience. In this intro…
Energiewenden aus historischer Perspektive
As most other industrialized countries, Germany experienced three major changes in its energy mix in the last two centuries, namely the respective transitions to coal, oil, and nuclear power. This paper discusses the reasons and consequences of these changes with respect to energy consumption, energy prices, and growth. One major finding is that each energy transition led to a devaluation of traditional locational advantages such as the existence…
Incentives That (Could Have) Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance Associations in Germany, 1884-1914
Germany introduced compulsory industrial accident insurance in 1884. The accident-insurance system compensated injured workers and survivors for losses, but initially failed to limit the growth of accident rates. We trace this failure to the 1884 law's faulty incentives and to an initial unwillingness to use the tools built into the law. The government regulator increasingly stressed rules that forced firms to adopt specific safety-enhancing inno…
Historical Economics of Wars in the 20th Century
To stimulate projects on the historical economics of wars in the 20th century we advocate three promising research strategies by reviewing recent studies that focus on international or inter-temporal comparisons and on the economic and social consequences of war
Supplier networks in the German aircraft industry during World War II and their long-term effects on West Germany's automobile industry during the ‘Wirtschaftswunder’
Reconstructing the complex supplier network of the famous JU 88 air armament programme, this article shows that outsourcing activities increased considerably in wartime Germany. The resulting inter-firm division of labour did not lead only to a quite effective protection of the German aircraft production against Allied air raids but also contributed to enormous labour productivity growth in most stages of the production process. Even though aircr…
Neue deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Economic history explores developments in the economy over time, thereby bridging historiography and economics. This textbook offers German-speaking readers a balanced focus on history and economics. It illustrates the power of concepts and methods from economics when applied to understanding broader historical issues. History brings life to what might otherwise be dry economic theory.
Guns and Butter – But No Margarine: The Impact of Nazi Economic Policies on German Food Consumption, 1933–38
The German population’s material standard of living during the ‘peace years’ of the Nazi regime (1933–38) is much debated. We use hitherto disregarded consumption data and the axiom of revealed preferences to test whether the material standard of living improved. We find that the food consumption bundle realized in 1935–36 must have been inferior to that of 1927–28, despite GDP per capita being much higher. Even in 1937–38 consumers were probably…
Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914
TheKnappschaftwas a mutual association through which German miners insured themselves against accident, illness, and old age. TheKnappschaftunderlies Bismarck's sickness and accident insurance legislation, and thus Germany's system today. This article focuses on moral hazard, which plagued theKnappschaftenin the later nineteenth century. Sick pay made it attractive for miners to feign illness that made them unable to work. We outline the moral ha…
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Knowledge Spillover from American to German Machine Toolmakers
Today, German machine toolmakers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and imitating German technology. A century ago, German machine toolmakers used the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this catching-up process, we use patent statistics to analyze firms' activities between 1877 and 1932. We show that German firms deployed imitating strategies in the late nineteenth century and the 1…
Prinzipal-Agenten-Probleme in der knappschaftlichen Krankenversicherung: Die Bekämpfung des „Simulantentums“ durch Anreize und Kontrolle
The Knappschaften grew out of medieval miner’s efforts to insure themselves against the consequences of their dangerous jobs. By the late nineteenth century the Knappschaften were self-run sickness (and invalidity) funds with compulsory membership. Bismarck’s social-insurance legislation used them as a model for similar funds in other industries, and as such they remain the model for German social insurance today. However, late nineteenth-century…
Fixed-price contracts, learning, and outsourcing: Explaining the continuous growth of output and labour productivity in the German aircraft industry during the Second World War1
In this article it is claimed that, at least in the aircraft industry, the development of German armament production and productivity was much more continuous than Wagenführ's armament index and both the Blitzkrieg thesis and the inefficiency thesis suggest. In order to prove this new thesis of continuity, we show on the basis of firm-level data, firstly, that investment in production capacities had already started before the war and was especial…
Von der Missbrauchskontrolle zur Anreizregulierung in der bundesdeutschen Stromwirtschaft
Die verlorene Erzeugungsschlacht: Die nationalsozialistische Landwirtschaft im Systemvergleich
To evaluate the achievements and failures of National Socialists’ agrarian policy we compute and compare average annual growth rates of value added, factor inputs and total factor productivity of German agriculture for the three periods 1925-1929/32 (Weimar Republic), 1933-1938 (Third Reich), and 1950-1959 (Federal Republic of Germany). This long-term quantitative analysis shows that National Socialists′ agrarian policy considerably slowed down m…
Leben, um zu arbeiten, oder arbeiten, um zu leben: Warum uns der Rückgang der Arbeitszeit in den letzten 125 Jahren nicht beunruhigen sollte
In a recent paper, Gerhard Schildt has argued that we suffer from mass unemployment today because technical progress has caused structural change that has led to a long-term decrease of working opportunities. By showing the secular decline of hours worked per year, Schildt concludes that this trend is irreversible and causes increasing unemployment. We argue that this conclusion is based on the confusion of a statistical observation with a causal…
Knowledge spill-over from new to old industries: The case of German synthetic dyes and textiles (1878–1913)
Das Ende eines Mythos? Albert Speer und das so genannte Rüstungswunder
Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941 by implementing several organizational reforms. We question the received view by showing that there was nothing like a clear-cut discontinuity in both real production and organization of the German armament industry after Speer was appointed armament minister. With respect to organizational reforms, Speer obviously failed to enforce t…
Technological and geographical knowledge spillover in the German empire 1877-1918
We use a newly developed data set of 39,343 high-value patents granted between 1877 and 1918 to demonstrate that technological progress during German industrialization occurred in at least four different technological waves. We distinguish the railway wave (1877-86), the dye wave (1887-96), the chemical wave (1897-1902), and the wave of electrical engineering (1903-18). Evidence is presented that inter-industry knowledge spillovers between techno…
Die politische Glaubwürdigkeit von Regierungen im institutionellen Wandel. Warum ausländische Fürsten das Eigentum der Fernhandelskaufleute der Hanse schützten
Article Die politische Glaubwürdigkeit von Regierungen im institutionellen Wandel. Warum ausländische Fürsten das Eigentum der Fernhandelskaufleute der Hanse schützten. was published on June 1, 2004 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 45, issue 1)
Knowledge and competitive advantage
agricultural efficiency-poor in the variety of their resources, inflexible in their routines, and obstructive of innovation.It challenges, but it will refresh discussion of entrenched assumptions.It is stirring stuff.This reader missed any debate about the influence of lawyer-stewards in the later middle ages pushing lords towards a conformity in field systems; she thinks this crucial.Others will ask for more attention to be given to variant soci…
Technological and geographical knowledge spillover in the German empire 1877-1918
We use a newly developed data set of 39,343 high-value patents granted between 1877 and 1918 to demonstrate that technological progress during German industrialization occurred in at least four different technological waves. We distinguish the railway wave (1877-86), the dye wave (1887-96), the chemical wave (1897-1902), and the wave of electrical engineering (1903-18). Evidence is presented that inter-industry knowledge spillovers between techno…
Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914
TheKnappschaftwas a mutual association through which German miners insured themselves against accident, illness, and old age. TheKnappschaftunderlies Bismarck's sickness and accident insurance legislation, and thus Germany's system today. This article focuses on moral hazard, which plagued theKnappschaftenin the later nineteenth century. Sick pay made it attractive for miners to feign illness that made them unable to work. We outline the moral ha…
Supplier networks in the German aircraft industry during World War II and their long-term effects on West Germany's automobile industry during the ‘Wirtschaftswunder’
Reconstructing the complex supplier network of the famous JU 88 air armament programme, this article shows that outsourcing activities increased considerably in wartime Germany. The resulting inter-firm division of labour did not lead only to a quite effective protection of the German aircraft production against Allied air raids but also contributed to enormous labour productivity growth in most stages of the production process. Even though aircr…
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Knowledge Spillover from American to German Machine Toolmakers
Today, German machine toolmakers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and imitating German technology. A century ago, German machine toolmakers used the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this catching-up process, we use patent statistics to analyze firms' activities between 1877 and 1932. We show that German firms deployed imitating strategies in the late nineteenth century and the 1…
Fixed-price contracts, learning, and outsourcing: Explaining the continuous growth of output and labour productivity in the German aircraft industry during the Second World War1
In this article it is claimed that, at least in the aircraft industry, the development of German armament production and productivity was much more continuous than Wagenführ's armament index and both the Blitzkrieg thesis and the inefficiency thesis suggest. In order to prove this new thesis of continuity, we show on the basis of firm-level data, firstly, that investment in production capacities had already started before the war and was especial…
Knowledge spill-over from new to old industries: The case of German synthetic dyes and textiles (1878–1913)
Das Ende eines Mythos? Albert Speer und das so genannte Rüstungswunder
Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941 by implementing several organizational reforms. We question the received view by showing that there was nothing like a clear-cut discontinuity in both real production and organization of the German armament industry after Speer was appointed armament minister. With respect to organizational reforms, Speer obviously failed to enforce t…
The Introduction of Bismarck's Social Security System and its Effects on Marriage and Fertility in Prussia
Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should induce couples to substitute away from children in the allocation of wealth. We test this claim using the introduction of social insurance in Germany in t…
Incentives That (Could Have) Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance Associations in Germany, 1884-1914
Germany introduced compulsory industrial accident insurance in 1884. The accident-insurance system compensated injured workers and survivors for losses, but initially failed to limit the growth of accident rates. We trace this failure to the 1884 law's faulty incentives and to an initial unwillingness to use the tools built into the law. The government regulator increasingly stressed rules that forced firms to adopt specific safety-enhancing inno…
Prinzipal-Agenten-Probleme in der knappschaftlichen Krankenversicherung: Die Bekämpfung des „Simulantentums“ durch Anreize und Kontrolle
The Knappschaften grew out of medieval miner’s efforts to insure themselves against the consequences of their dangerous jobs. By the late nineteenth century the Knappschaften were self-run sickness (and invalidity) funds with compulsory membership. Bismarck’s social-insurance legislation used them as a model for similar funds in other industries, and as such they remain the model for German social insurance today. However, late nineteenth-century…
Discrimination against Foreigners: The Wuerttemberg Patent Law in Administrative Practice
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the patent office of the German state Wuerttemberg strategically discriminated against foreign inventors by charging comparatively high patent fees. We show that this administrative practice was driven by fiscal and protectionist motives
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Schumpeterschen Diversifizierung
Das Scheitern der staatlichen Preisregulierung in der nationalsozialistischen Bauwirtschaft
Die politische Glaubwürdigkeit von Regierungen im institutionellen Wandel. Warum ausländische Fürsten das Eigentum der Fernhandelskaufleute der Hanse schützten
Article Die politische Glaubwürdigkeit von Regierungen im institutionellen Wandel. Warum ausländische Fürsten das Eigentum der Fernhandelskaufleute der Hanse schützten. was published on June 1, 2004 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 45, issue 1)
Knowledge and competitive advantage
agricultural efficiency-poor in the variety of their resources, inflexible in their routines, and obstructive of innovation.It challenges, but it will refresh discussion of entrenched assumptions.It is stirring stuff.This reader missed any debate about the influence of lawyer-stewards in the later middle ages pushing lords towards a conformity in field systems; she thinks this crucial.Others will ask for more attention to be given to variant soci…
Das Ende eines Mythos? Albert Speer und das so genannte Rüstungswunder
Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941 by implementing several organizational reforms. We question the received view by showing that there was nothing like a clear-cut discontinuity in both real production and organization of the German armament industry after Speer was appointed armament minister. With respect to organizational reforms, Speer obviously failed to enforce t…
Technological and geographical knowledge spillover in the German empire 1877-1918
We use a newly developed data set of 39,343 high-value patents granted between 1877 and 1918 to demonstrate that technological progress during German industrialization occurred in at least four different technological waves. We distinguish the railway wave (1877-86), the dye wave (1887-96), the chemical wave (1897-1902), and the wave of electrical engineering (1903-18). Evidence is presented that inter-industry knowledge spillovers between techno…
Knowledge spill-over from new to old industries: The case of German synthetic dyes and textiles (1878–1913)
Die verlorene Erzeugungsschlacht: Die nationalsozialistische Landwirtschaft im Systemvergleich
To evaluate the achievements and failures of National Socialists’ agrarian policy we compute and compare average annual growth rates of value added, factor inputs and total factor productivity of German agriculture for the three periods 1925-1929/32 (Weimar Republic), 1933-1938 (Third Reich), and 1950-1959 (Federal Republic of Germany). This long-term quantitative analysis shows that National Socialists′ agrarian policy considerably slowed down m…
Leben, um zu arbeiten, oder arbeiten, um zu leben: Warum uns der Rückgang der Arbeitszeit in den letzten 125 Jahren nicht beunruhigen sollte
In a recent paper, Gerhard Schildt has argued that we suffer from mass unemployment today because technical progress has caused structural change that has led to a long-term decrease of working opportunities. By showing the secular decline of hours worked per year, Schildt concludes that this trend is irreversible and causes increasing unemployment. We argue that this conclusion is based on the confusion of a statistical observation with a causal…
Von der Missbrauchskontrolle zur Anreizregulierung in der bundesdeutschen Stromwirtschaft
Prinzipal-Agenten-Probleme in der knappschaftlichen Krankenversicherung: Die Bekämpfung des „Simulantentums“ durch Anreize und Kontrolle
The Knappschaften grew out of medieval miner’s efforts to insure themselves against the consequences of their dangerous jobs. By the late nineteenth century the Knappschaften were self-run sickness (and invalidity) funds with compulsory membership. Bismarck’s social-insurance legislation used them as a model for similar funds in other industries, and as such they remain the model for German social insurance today. However, late nineteenth-century…
Fixed-price contracts, learning, and outsourcing: Explaining the continuous growth of output and labour productivity in the German aircraft industry during the Second World War1
In this article it is claimed that, at least in the aircraft industry, the development of German armament production and productivity was much more continuous than Wagenführ's armament index and both the Blitzkrieg thesis and the inefficiency thesis suggest. In order to prove this new thesis of continuity, we show on the basis of firm-level data, firstly, that investment in production capacities had already started before the war and was especial…
Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914
TheKnappschaftwas a mutual association through which German miners insured themselves against accident, illness, and old age. TheKnappschaftunderlies Bismarck's sickness and accident insurance legislation, and thus Germany's system today. This article focuses on moral hazard, which plagued theKnappschaftenin the later nineteenth century. Sick pay made it attractive for miners to feign illness that made them unable to work. We outline the moral ha…
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Knowledge Spillover from American to German Machine Toolmakers
Today, German machine toolmakers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and imitating German technology. A century ago, German machine toolmakers used the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this catching-up process, we use patent statistics to analyze firms' activities between 1877 and 1932. We show that German firms deployed imitating strategies in the late nineteenth century and the 1…
Neue deutsche Wirtschaftsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Economic history explores developments in the economy over time, thereby bridging historiography and economics. This textbook offers German-speaking readers a balanced focus on history and economics. It illustrates the power of concepts and methods from economics when applied to understanding broader historical issues. History brings life to what might otherwise be dry economic theory.
Guns and Butter – But No Margarine: The Impact of Nazi Economic Policies on German Food Consumption, 1933–38
The German population’s material standard of living during the ‘peace years’ of the Nazi regime (1933–38) is much debated. We use hitherto disregarded consumption data and the axiom of revealed preferences to test whether the material standard of living improved. We find that the food consumption bundle realized in 1935–36 must have been inferior to that of 1927–28, despite GDP per capita being much higher. Even in 1937–38 consumers were probably…
Historical Economics of Wars in the 20th Century
To stimulate projects on the historical economics of wars in the 20th century we advocate three promising research strategies by reviewing recent studies that focus on international or inter-temporal comparisons and on the economic and social consequences of war
Supplier networks in the German aircraft industry during World War II and their long-term effects on West Germany's automobile industry during the ‘Wirtschaftswunder’
Reconstructing the complex supplier network of the famous JU 88 air armament programme, this article shows that outsourcing activities increased considerably in wartime Germany. The resulting inter-firm division of labour did not lead only to a quite effective protection of the German aircraft production against Allied air raids but also contributed to enormous labour productivity growth in most stages of the production process. Even though aircr…
Energiewenden aus historischer Perspektive
As most other industrialized countries, Germany experienced three major changes in its energy mix in the last two centuries, namely the respective transitions to coal, oil, and nuclear power. This paper discusses the reasons and consequences of these changes with respect to energy consumption, energy prices, and growth. One major finding is that each energy transition led to a devaluation of traditional locational advantages such as the existence…
Incentives That (Could Have) Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance Associations in Germany, 1884-1914
Germany introduced compulsory industrial accident insurance in 1884. The accident-insurance system compensated injured workers and survivors for losses, but initially failed to limit the growth of accident rates. We trace this failure to the 1884 law's faulty incentives and to an initial unwillingness to use the tools built into the law. The government regulator increasingly stressed rules that forced firms to adopt specific safety-enhancing inno…
Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation
Erfahrung und Erwartung – eine vernachlässigte wirtschaftshistorische Perspektive
The DFG Priority Programme “Experience and Expectation – Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour” explores how economic actors form their expectations under certain historical conditions. This project’s main hypothesis is that the formation of economic expectations is a complex process that cannot be explained solely by simple concepts such as adaptive or rational expectations, and is shaped by historical events and experience. In this intro…
Discrimination against Foreigners: The Wuerttemberg Patent Law in Administrative Practice
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the patent office of the German state Wuerttemberg strategically discriminated against foreign inventors by charging comparatively high patent fees. We show that this administrative practice was driven by fiscal and protectionist motives
The Introduction of Bismarck's Social Security System and its Effects on Marriage and Fertility in Prussia
Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should induce couples to substitute away from children in the allocation of wealth. We test this claim using the introduction of social insurance in Germany in t…
Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy by B. Zorina Khan
Reviewed by: Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy by B. Zorina Khan Jochen Streb (bio) Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy By B. Zorina Khan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 462. Economic historians have often delved into the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Europe with this question: "Why Britain?" In this book, B. Zorina Khan, one of the world's leading experts on the history of …
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