Dr. Sebastian Knake
E-mail: sebastian.knake@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4186
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-4222
ZAPF-Building, House 4 (Office 4.4.13b)
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2025: Researcher at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich. In charge of an edition project on the history Germany’s global entanglements in the 19th and 20th century
Link: https://www.historischekommision-muenchen.de/abteilungen/deutschlands-weltwirtschaftliche-verflechtungen-im-19-und-20-jahrhundert.2015-2025: Research assistant at the Department for Economic and Social History at Bayreuth University. Development and execution of various third-party-funded research projects with a focus on the historical development of saving behaviour in Germany and the US as well as the taxation of multinational enterprise in historical perspective. Interim position as Junior Professor for Economic History at Bayreuth University in 2019 and 2021.
2012-2017: Doctoral studies at Bielefeld University and Bayreuth University. PhD grant awarded by the Niedersaechsisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Wolfenbuettel.
2011-2012: Assistant at the Department for Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University.
2003-2010: Studies in History and Social Sciences at Bielefeld University and Johns Hopkins University (US). BA and MA degree.
Select Publications
Econometric Models of the Savings Deposit Market. Development and Demand among US Retail Banks, 1970s and 1980s, in: Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) 48/2 (2026). In Print.
With Jan-Otmar Hesse and Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer: Saving Behavior in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in: Laetitia Lenel; Alexander Nützenadel, Jochen Streb et. al. (Eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective, New York 2025, 408-423.
“Stupid“ German Money? Bonus interest rate payments on passbooks during the stagflation period 1967-1984, in: Economic History Yearbook (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte) 66/2 (2025), 551-584.
The Spareckzins. The making of Germany’s most important price for household savings 1967-1983, in: Vierteljahrsschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (VSWG) 110/1 (2023), 30-73.
Geschichte des Konsumentenkredites in historischer Perspektive, in: Christian Kleinschmidt; Jan Logemann (Eds.): Konsum im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Handbücher für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Berlin/Boston 2021, 391-431.
Unternehmensfinanzierung im Wettbewerb. Die Braunschweigische Staatsbank von 1919 bis 1969, Beihefte zum Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte Vol. 26, Berlin/Boston 2020.