💱 Do floating exchange rates really shield economies from external shocks? A new study revisits this long-standing idea and finds they may offer less protection than expected. Read more: berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
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The Berlin School of Economics (BSoE) is a premier institution that integrates several Berlin universities, offering a PhD program focused on high-level research and practical training in economics. It prepares future leaders to tackle economic challenges.
📰 As commercial surrogacy returns to the center of public debate in Germany, our new INSIGHTS piece asks a broader question: What makes some market transactions morally unacceptable? Read more: berlinschoolofeconomics.de/insight/repu... #behavioraleconomics #marketdesign
Yesterday (today for some of us 😀), the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social QSE ended on a high. Thanks so much to all the speakers, long-term visitors, short-term guests, and the regulars at the seminars (and socials). What a fantastic community! sites.google.com/view/bqse/bq...
Friendly reminder: The call for submissions for the Leibniz Open Science Day 2026 is open until July 31. If you're working on AI, meta-science, or open science in the social sciences, consider submitting your contribution! 👇 www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns...
Leibniz Open Science Day 2026: “Scientific Rigor and Collaborative Research in the Age of AI”, 17 November 2026, Berlin (Leibniz-Association). Keynote speaker: @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, University of Innsbruck. The call for submissions is now open until 31 July 2026: 👉 zbw.to/kchea #OpenScience
🌍 Thank you to everyone who joined the 2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics! Proud to see this international conference organized by PhD students from the Berlin School of Economics. Thanks to all who contributed! #economics
2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics: Jointly organized by PhD students from the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social, @diw.de, and @wzb.bsky.social. Great line up and speakers! sites.google.com/view/berlin-...
Berlin PhD Conference in Economics - Applied Microeconomics
An International Conference for PhD students in Applied Microeconomics
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This is not just another summer workshop in Berlin, but actually TWO conferences! The 2nd Berlin PhD Conference consists of an Applied Micro part and a part on micro theory and behavioral economics: sites.google.com/vie... Keynotes by Esmée Zwiers, Simon Jäger, Jeanne Hagenbach, and Botond Köszegi.
This is not just another summer workshop in Berlin, but actually TWO conferences! The 2nd Berlin PhD Conference consists of an Applied Micro part and a part on micro theory and behavioral economics: sites.google.com/vie... Keynotes by Esmée Zwiers, Simon Jäger, Jeanne Hagenbach, and Botond Köszegi.
What if hiring is really an inventory problem? Tested on US nurse staffing data Alexandre Mas builds an equilibrium model of the labour market as a newsvendor: firms either hold permanent staff as a buffer or hire on the spot once demand is realised. More: www.rfberlin.com/event/alexan...
Alexandre Mas (University of California, Berkeley)
The RFBerlin Applied Economics Seminar series brings leading researchers to Berlin to share their latest work and engage with our community. We are pleased to welcome Alexandre Mas (University of…
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🗣️📄 This week, the BSoE-DIW GC Summer Workshop 2026 brought together PhD students from the Berlin School of Economics and @diwgradcenter.bsky.social communities for two days of research exchange, constructive feedback, and networking across different areas of economics. #economicsresearch
📖 Our discussion paper can be found (and read 😀) here: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... (n/n) @diw.de @cepa-unipotsdam.bsky.social @bsoeberlin.bsky.social
🆕 How does workforce diversity evolve when labor demand rises sharply, but no targeted diversity policy is in place? Our DP (with my fabulous co-authors @barbaraboelmann.bsky.social, @lenajanys.bsky.social & Luisa Santiago Wolf) addresses this question using a natural experiment. Thread 👇 (1/n)
Thanks to #BritishEmbassyBerlin for an excellent conference to honour the #KensingtonTreaty One lesson from the regional policy panel: create spatially balanced agglomeration. Updated my slides on growth & spatial inequality based on what I learned github.com/Ahlfeldt/pre... @bsoeberlin.bsky.social
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Looking forward to having @jrgptrs.bsky.social in our research seminar this Thursday! Feel free to join. 12.15 Boltzmannstraße 20.
🗓️ Thursday, July 2: We are very happy to welcome Jörg Ankel-Peters at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Robustness in Empirical Economics: A Meta-Reproduction of 66 Articles from Leading Journals“. #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky
Yet another good use of our AHS microgeographic price and rent index by @tagesspiegel.de This time about the doughnut effect. interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/berliner... Underlying raw data available here: github.com/Ahlfeldt/AHS... @bsoeberlin.bsky.social
Wohnen im Speckgürtel – Analyse in Karten: Aus der Hauptstadt ins Eigenheim. Ist der Traum vom Umland vorbei?
Wer den Wohnungspreisen entkommen wollte, zog ins Umland. Jetzt holt ihn das Problem dort ein. Fast nirgendwo sind die Immobilienpreise flächendeckend so stark gestiegen wie im Berliner Speckgürtel.
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Es hat mir viel Spaß gemacht meine Erfahrungen mit der Co-Organisation der Berlin Replication Games 2025 im Podcast von @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social mit #DoreenSiegfried zu teilen. Replication Games zeigen, wie wertvoll gemeinsames Arbeiten an Replikationen und Reproduktionen sein kann!
In seinem persönlichen Fazit zu den Replication Games 2025 an der FU Berlin verrät uns @janmarcus.de in unserer neuen Podcastfolge, wie Wirtschaftsforschende aller Karrierestufen spielerisch an Sinn und Herausforderung von Reproduktion und Replikation herangeführt werden: zbw.to/FWIYg #OpenScience
Out in @jeeanews.bsky.social: our paper on the long-run evolution of wealth in Germany! 🥳
Forthcoming article "Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895–2021" by @thiloalbers.bsky.social @charlottebartels.bsky.social and @schularick.bsky.social @eeanews.bsky.social Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat... doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Great dashboard implementation our methodology from @cep-lse.bsky.social @bsoeberlin.bsky.social research to illustrate microgeographic property prices and rents in Germany by @tagesspiegel.de. Try clicking on your postcode. 😀 interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/der-inte...
Delighted to see our work with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social on overcrowding in Germany published open access in @houspoldebate.bsky.social Crowding among families and migrants, empty rooms elsewhere: a story of unequal space. doi.org/10.1080/105114
On June 5, 2026 at 16:30, @humboldtuni.bsky.social hosts “Micro- and Macro-perspectives on Populism.” 👥 With contributions from Chi Hyun Kim, Johanna Krenz, @felixkersting.bsky.social, Ben Schumann & Sulin Sardoschau. We warmly invite you to attend. 🔗 www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/de/Events/mi...
Tenure Track position on food econ in Berlin, deadline 28 May 👇🏼 Among the many plusses of being in the econ crowd of Berlin: a large number of women colleagues with top publications www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... #Econsky
Were Nazi Party members mainly extremists – or “ordinary people” shaped by their surroundings? 📂 New research using 11 million records shows how local communities helped turn the Nazi Party into a mass movement. 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new... #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicHistory
❗Am Montag, 18.5., diskutieren wir ab 18 Uhr beim rbb24 inforadio-Forum im DIW Berlin @diw.de über Gewalt im öffentlichen Raum. Was sagen Politik & Wissenschaft? 💬 Ich freue mich auf eine spannende Diskussion mit allen Beteiligten! 📌 Anmeldungen für die Veranstaltung sind noch möglich, siehe Link:
Gewalt im öffentlichen Raum kann das Sicherheitsgefühl innerhalb der Bevölkerung beeinträchtigen. Wie können Gewaltschutz, Strafverfolgung und langfristige Prävention zu einer Verbesserung der Lage beitragen? Darüber diskutieren wir am 18.5. ab 18 Uhr am DIW Berlin. @rbb24.de diw.de/de/diw_01.c....
📘 Scott Cunningham joins @diw.de on June 15–16, 2026 for the Causal Inference – The Mixtape Master Class 2026 on Difference-in-Differences and Synthetic Control methods. Registration is open until June 1, 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #causalinference #economics
📯 Welcoming 3 new Research Associates to BSoE! @joarlinghaus.bsky.social (@hertieschool.bsky.social), Sonja Dobkowitz (@diw.de) & David Piazolo (@tuberlin.bsky.social) join us. Their work spans environmental econ, public finance & political economy. 👏 Great to have you on board! #welcome #econ
🌉 Yesterday’s BSoE Opportunity Day at @rfberlin.bsky.social brought our 2025 PhD intake together with researchers from across the network. 📚 The event connects coursework and research, offering insights, exchange, and orientation for the next phase. 👏 Thanks to all who joined! #phdprogram
My colleague Felix Weinhardt @bsoeberlin.bsky.social just released a short but important note that might make you rethink how you interpret your OLS estimates. Worth a look @paulgp.com @p-hunermund.com @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social @conjugateprior.org 👇 opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/f...
We continue after our lunch break with RFBerlin research officer @tohoff.bsky.social from @bsoeberlin.bsky.social at @humboldtuni.bsky.social, presenting on "The Life-Cycle Consequences of Obesity and the Welfare Effects of Weight-Loss Drugs".
Celebrating a milestone at the Hertie School: silkekaiser.bsky.social is our first graduate of the bsoeberlin.bsky.social PhD programme. Her work on sustainable urban mobility shows how data can help shape better cities. Congrats, Silke! datasciencelab.bsky.social, hertiesustain.bsky.social
A Bick, A Blandin, D Deming, N Fuchs-Schündeln, & J Jessen find large differences in AI adoption across countries, much of which are accounted for by management practices. Higher adoption rates are associated w/ + productivity growth but not w/ employment changes. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
📢 Spots still available! Turn your research into a compelling opinion piece. Join our workshop “Writing for the Press” (in German), May 6 & 13, @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Register by April 30 (max. 12 spots). 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/event-detail... #sciencecommunication #mediatraining