1/2 New Applied Econometrics lecture slides are online: github.com/Ahlfeldt/Lec... Topics 13–24 follow Békés & Kézdi’s excellent, applied and case-based textbook. I highly recommend it. Thanks @gaborbekes.bsky.social for sharing slides, data & code.

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Humboldt University Applied Econometrics lecture slides - Ahlfeldt/Lectures-AppliedEconometrics

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Thrilled our paper was accepted at @reveconstudies.bsky.social! Fond of our indirect-inference estimate of density disamenity—learning from macro, matching reduced-form causal moments in structural models @bsoeberlin.bsky.social github.com/Ahlfeldt/DPs/blob/main/GA_NBS_JR_-_SkyscraperRevolution.pdf

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...

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

📣 Today marks the start of the IZA@LISER Summer School in Labor Economics 2026 in #Luxembourg This edition carries a special significance. As the IZA Network transitions into its new institutional home at @liser.lu, marking the start of a new chapter for this established tradition. 1/4

I had a wonderful time presenting my research on public sector relocations and regional development at the @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Summer School 2026 at LSE!

Urban Economics Association@urbaneconomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A huge thank you to all the students and faculty who participated in the UEA Summer School this year! It was an incredible week of research discussions. We are grateful to everyone who joined us and made the experience so special.

It was a great experience to present my paper, “The Effect of Public Sector Relocations on Regional Development in Germany,” at the 2nd LSE Workshop for Early Career Women in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-2n...

On the current state of the purpose-built capital Nusantara by the NYT: "The Lure of a Rising Asian Metropolis? No Traffic." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/w... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/w...

The Lure of a Rising Asian Metropolis? No Traffic.

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Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf den Vortrag von @monika-schnitzer.com zum Jahresgutachten des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social bei uns an der @unileipzig.bsky.social!

We had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Peter Hull (Brown University) at DIW Berlin for this year’s BeNA Lecture Series! 🎓 Two days full of insights on shift-share instruments & recentered IV methods — great discussions and inspiration all around. 🙌 #Econ #BeNA

I was delighted to participate in the CEPR Paris Symposium 2025! Thanks to everyone who stopped by for the serious engagement, constructive, specific feedback and comments on my poster on “The Effect of Public Sector Relocations on Regional Development”! #CEPRParis2025 #EconSky

Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · 9mo ago

The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs hosted the final panel of #CEPRParis2025. Nicole Gnesotto @delorsinstitute.bsky.social, @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social, Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE), & @schularick.bsky.social discussed defence & strategic sovereignty. @martinsandbu.ft.com moderated. #EconSky

At the IMO Workshop I joined Team Purple 💜. We developed a concept integrating metabolic signatures, clinical data & mathematical modeling to guide personalized therapy in advanced ovarian cancer. We finished as runner-up and received a $50k pilot grant to take the project forward!

So much just happened at this year‘s #vfs_conf2025! I had the honor to chair the session “The Great Reallocation – Public Policy and the Geography of Growth” and to present my paper “Public Sector Relocations and Regional Development in Germany.”

Honoured to receive the 2024 Reinhart Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award from @esmtbio.bsky.social for my PhD on tumour evolution. Looking forward to the #ECMTB2026 plenary in Graz. Huge thanks to mentors, collaborators & students at ZIH, CIDS and @tudresden.bsky.social. #MathBio #Mathonco

One-year visiting position for advanced female postdocs in Dresden. I am happy to host anyone broadly interested in applied micro. Salary within the German public sector's pay scale (TV-L, E13-E15). Deadline: Sept 15, 2025. Please share widely! 👇

UPDATE: more impression from the epic www.bqse.de boat event: sites.google.com/view/bqse/bq... Thanks to @humboldtuni.bsky.social Innovation #HumboldtInnovation for facilitating!

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What a fabulous 2025 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social www.bqse.de seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld.bsky.social , all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! sites.google.com/view/bqse/bq...

Learned a ton (still learning) at the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social course in Quantitative Spatial Economics. Can’t wait to apply it to my job market paper. Huge thanks to @ahlfeldt.bsky.social and to a brilliant, fun cohort for a fantastic summer in Berlin!

Gabriel M Ahlfeldt@ahlfeldt.bsky.social · last yr.

Last day of the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social course in Quantitative Spatial Economics. What a great cohort! If you spot any of these faces on the job market, don't hesitate! Thoroughly impressed by their coursework—the nerdy discussions during the lectures: priceless! 🫰 sites.google.com/view/bqse/bq... f

I’m incredibly honored to have received the SOLE Poster Prize 🏆 for my paper: “The Effect of Public Sector Relocations on Regional Development in Germany“ at the 6th World Labour Conference in Toronto! #SOLE2025 #EconSky #LaborEconomics #RegionalEconomics #UrbanEconomics

I'm super happy and honored to be nominated for the Deutscher Studienpreis (German Thesis Award) by @koerber-ip.bsky.social for my PhD thesis on mathematical modeling of the impact of tumor heterogeneity on cancer evolution! I'm looking forward to meeting the other nominees at the final in Berlin!

Can moving government jobs revitalize struggling regions? I explore this question in my new @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper, „The Potential of Public Employment Reallocation as a Place-Based Policy.“ 🧵(1/5) #EconSky #PlaceBasedPolicies #RegionalDevelopment

NBER@nber.org · 2y ago

Surveying the economics literature on capital relocations, purpose-built capitals, and public agency decentralization programs, synthesizing their effects on population, employment, and GDP, from Dimitria Freitas https://www.nber.org/papers/w33432

Do place-based policies matter at the poll? It was a pleasure to present research on this topic at the 18th Workshop on Political Economy at ifo Institute Dresden this weekend.