Victoria Gierok is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economic History at the Department of Economics and Nuffield College. Her research focuses on the economic and institutional history of pre-industrial Germany, i.e. the Holy Roman Empire.
At the heart of her work is the question of how inequality developed over the long run. Her most recent papers in the Journal of Economic History and Explorations in Economic History provide first quantitative estimates of inequality and allow for a comparative perspective of Thomas Piketty’s work on long-run inequality in France and England. Currently, she is working on a book about inequality, taxation and conflict in the Holy Roman Empire. In addition, she is working on a project on capital expenditure in England at the time of the Black Death.
She holds a DPhil in Economic History from Oxford University under the supervision of Stephen Broadberry and an MSc in Economics from Bocconi University. Her dissertation won the Economic History Society’s Thirsk-Feinstein Prize.
