Berlin School of Economics

💱 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...

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...

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-...

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...

🗣️📄 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

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

Looking forward to having @jrgptrs.bsky.social in our research seminar this Thursday! Feel free to join. 12.15 Boltzmannstraße 20.

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

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!

Out in @jeeanews.bsky.social: our paper on the long-run evolution of wealth in Germany! 🥳

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

📘 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

📢POSTPONED! To Friday, April 17th

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: submit your digital health economics papers and abstracts by April 6! More info here: www.digitalhealthecon.org

Interview zum Thema Wohnen in Deutschland in der @taz.de. Entstanden im Kontext eines von der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social geförderten Projekts zum Thema Wohnraummangel, gemeinsam mit @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social & @simonvoss.bsky.social.

Really very happy to see our paper covered in Nature Magazine Full paper here cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

We have too little architectural quality—even though it pays. The reason is a coordination failure. 👉 Should policy step in? Our @econ-observatory.bsky.social coverage www.economicsobservatory.com/why-dont-we-... of our @bsoeberlin.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social DP github.com/Ahlfeldt/DPs...

🎬 How can academic research reach a wider public audience? In our new video, Felix Degenhardt (@bsoeberlin.bsky.social & @unipotsdam.bsky.social) shares how he turned his research into a published op-ed in @zeit.de. ▶️ Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvj9... #sciencecommunication

@tagesspiegel.de with coverage of the AHSY index (w dashboard): interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/gewerbem... Here is our @bsoeberlin.bsky.social paper with the underlying methodology: github.com/Ahlfeldt/DPs... For those who cant get enough: our 1h live debate 😎: www.tagesspiegel.de/kneipe-weg-k...

📰 Want to turn your research into a strong opinion piece? In the #training “Writing for the #Press”, journalist Christine Prußky shares tips on writing for a wider audience and bringing research into public debate. 📅 6 & 13 May | @humboldtuni.bsky.social 📩 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/event-detail...

Fascinating fact: in countries with higher inequality, people are *more* optimistic that they‘ll climb the social ladder. Long interview with Julia Baumann and Yiming Liu. 👇🏼 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social @rationalitycrc.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gese...