Christoph Görtz

Housing Divides - NIESR Would you pay a premium to live in a multicultural neighbourhood? New research from Northern Ireland finds that many homebuyers do exactly that.

🏘️⚡️NEW ⚡️🏡

Would you pay a premium to live in a multicultural neighbourhood? 🏡👥🏘️

New research from #NorthernIreland finds that many homebuyers do exactly that ⬇️

Preview from our forthcoming UK Economic Outlook 📈

@unibirmingham.bsky.social

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📈 New IWH Discussion Paper

Rachel Cho, Hisham Farag, @cgortz.bsky.social, Danny McGowan, Huyen Nguyen, Max Schröder:
What’s the Melting Pot Worth? #Multiculturalism and House Prices

📅 Published: June 20, 2025
🔍 Full paper: doi.org/10.18717/dpt...

#economics #homophily #houseprices #segregation

Can there be a diversity premium in the housing market? - Economics Observatory Research using historical data from Northern Ireland indicates that house prices are higher in more diverse neighbourhoods. Housing policy should focus on regenerating neighbourhoods, improving…

Can there be a diversity premium in the housing market?
🔗 JUST PUBLISHED
By Rachel Cho, Hisham Farag, @cgortz.bsky.social‬, Danny McGowan, Huyen Nguyen, Max Schroeder

Looking forward to my stay at the IWH!

Thanks for your kind words Franck! - I ll try my best to stay in touch with the UK econ community.

Come and work with me from February (or later) as PostDoc or PhD student at the Univ of Augsburg.

Suche MitarbeiterInnen am neu einzurichtenden Lehrstuhl für empirische Makroökonomik. Infos hier: uni-augsburg.de/de/jobs-und-...

Bitte teilen! Danke.

Thanks to all my colleagues and friends at Univ of Birmingham who I was privileged to meet, make friends and work with. I am not quite gone yet, so looking forward to the remaining opportunities to catch up!

Some personal news. From Februar I will be joining
Univ of Augsburg. Looking forward to meeting new colleagues and students. At the same time, leaving
Univ of Birmingham with a heavy heart - am increadibly thankful for the opportunity to work there and the support I received over the years.

Lawrence H. Summers and Sir Angus Deaton on Is Economic Failure an Economics Failure? On Tuesday, October 17, Lawrence H. Summers & Sir Angus Deaton joined Markus’ Academy for a conversation on Is Economic Failure an Economics Failure. Lawrenc...

This was a great debate between Larry Summers and Angus Deaton on Markus Brunnermeier's Academy. I recommend everyone interested in the current state of Economics and its recent past watch it.

youtu.be/4rbCC6GWC_8?...

New call for papers. Conference on:
"Structural Changes and the Implications for Inflation"
Eltville (near Frankfurt), 7-8 May 2024.
PDF of call: matthias-rottner.github.io/Files/Confer...
Submission link: www.conftool.pro/business-cyc...
Please submit!