Benutzer:Rainer Fremdling

Rainer Fremdling, borne 1944, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Groningen. He worked as an economic historian at the University of Münster (Dr. rer. pol. 1974, Habilitation 1983) and Free University of Berlin before he became full professor at the University of Groningen (1987); in addition he held visiting fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, St. Antony´s College Oxford, KU Leuven, DIW, WZB and FU Berlin and now as research professor at the DIW.

He wrote a doctoral thesis on Railways and German Economic Growth (Eisenbahnen und deutsches Wirtschaftswachstum 1840-1879, Dortmund 1975 (2. Ed. 1985)) and a Habilitaion thesis on Tecchnology Transfer in the Iron Industry, 18th and 19th centuries (Technologischer Wandel und internationaler Handel im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Die Eisenindustrien in Großbritannien, Belgien, Frankreich und Deutschland, Berlin 1986).

Together with Herman de Jong and Marcel P. Timmer he recently published: British and German Manufacturing Productivity Compared: A New Benchmark for 1935/36 Based on Double Deflated Value Added, in: Journal of Economic History, Vol. 67 (2007/2), pp.350-378.