Caroline Fohlin has served as Research Professor of Economics at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, since 2005. She previously taught at the California Institute of Technology from 1994 to 2004. Professor Fohlin's research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Economic History, the Review of Finance, Business History, Cliometrica, Explorations in Economic History and the Economic History Review. She is the author of Finance Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and is a research associate at the Ce...