
Europe's regional inequality from 1900 to today
A recent literature has explored growing personal wealth inequality in countries around the world. This column explores the widening wealth gap between regions and across states in Europe...
Nikolaus Wolf holds the Chair of Economics and Economic History at Humboldt University Berlin, where he has taught since 2010. He is an economic historian with interests in trade, economic geography and international macroeconomics. He previously held positions at the University of Warwick, Free University Berlin and the London School of Economics and is currently a Research Fellow at CEPR (International Trade and Regional Economics and Economic History). He is an Editor of the European Review of Economic History.