FU Berlin Economics

🗓️ Thursday, November 27:
We are very happy to have Efrem Castelnuovo at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „The Inflation-Uncertainty Amplifier“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

Excited to be attending the 95th Meeting of the Southern Economic Association in Tampa, Florida, alongside @freya-rubel.bsky.social, @steinhardt.bsky.social, and @yue-louise-hu.bsky.social from the Economics Department at Freie Universität Berlin.
#SEA2025 #Economics

Just arrived in Tampa for the 95th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association! Looking forward to great discussions and new ideas.

If you’ll be here and want to meet up, feel free to send me a DM. Always happy to offer advice to early-career scholars and students.

#SEA2025

🗓️ Thursday, November 20:
We are very happy to welcome Gregor Pfeifer at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Abortion Access and Long-Run Household Outcomes: Evidence from Population-Wide Administrative Data“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

Do Natural Disasters Affect Household Saving? Evidence From the August 2002 Flood in Germany - Economics of Disasters and Climate Change Recently, there is a growing interest in understanding how individuals adapt to changing climate conditions and climate-induced extreme weather events. An underexplored question is whether and how cli...

🎉 Our study “Do Natural Disasters Affect Household Saving?” found a great home in Economics of Disasters and Climate Change!
After Germany’s 2002 flood, affected households saved less — generous disaster aid can ease hardship but also reduce precautionary saving.
doi.org/10.1007/s418...

🗓️ Thursday, November 6:
We are very happy to have Matthias Doepke at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Preparing Kids for Capitalism: The Effect of German Reunification“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, October 30:
We are very happy to welcome Vasyl Golosnoy at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Combining portfolio rules to improve prediction of global minimum variance portfolio“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

Peter Mohr, Philipp Bach, Jochen Bigus, Shushanik Margaryan

Philipp presenting

the receiption

🎉 Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming our new tenure-track Assistant Professor @philippbach.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

In his talk, Philipp gave an inspiring overview of his work in the field of #CausalMachineLearning: method development, software tools, and applications.

🗓️ Thursday, October 23:
We are very happy to have Philipp Bach and Shushanik Margaryan at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics. They will present their work on „Causal Machine Learning - New Estimation Approaches for Empirical Economics“ and „An Applied Micro Perspective on Causal Machine Learning“

The new semester is here, and so is the Research Seminar in Economics! 🎉
Every Thursday, a guest speaker will share their latest research on various topics. We are starting tomorrow with Oleg Nivievskyi; he will talk about his research on „Impact of Tax Incentives on Industry Performance and Growth“

🗓️ Thursday, July 17:
We are very happy to welcome @cathrinmohr.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . She will present her work on „Identity and Institutional Change: Evidence from First Names in Germany 1700-1850“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

📢 We're hiring!
Looking for a motivated, organized, and detail-oriented Econ student to join our team at JFKI (@jfki-econ.bsky.social) as a Student Assistant 🎓💼

Gain experience, boost your resume, and support our department!
Apply now ➡️
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
#EconSky

🗓️ Thursday, July 3:
We are very happy to welcome Gregory Gilpin at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „From Print to Pixels: The Effect of E-Content on Libraries, Patrons, and Student Learning“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, June 26:
We are very happy to have Alexander Monge-Naranjo at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Occupational Choices, Human Capital and Cross-Country Income Differences“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, June 5:
We are very happy to welcome @zohalhessami.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . She will present her work on „The (Ir)Relevance of Institutional Proliferation: Evidence from Foreigners’ Advisory Councils“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, June 12:
We are very happy to have Andrés César at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Vietnam’s Industrial Automation: Drivers and Impacts on the Labor Market“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, June 5:
We are very happy to welcome Filip Matejka at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

Happy to see our joint work on immigrant housing now published in the Journal of Housing Economics!
With @simonvoss.bsky.social (@fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social) and Marc-André Luik, we show how language skills shape homeownership outcomes—offering new causal evidence on immigrant integration. #EconSky

👏👏👏 Thank you to all presenters & participants of the „3rd Internal PhD Workshop in Applied Microeconomics“ @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social, jointly organized with @steinhardt.bsky.social, @janmarcus.de, @m-santos-silva.bsky.social. So great to learn more about all your projects and see your progress! 🥳

🎉 Here‘s the link to our new #EconFUBerlin Newsletter with all the updates you need:
www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...

🗓️ Thursday, May 22:
We are very happy to have Michael Ehrmann at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Central Bank Communication: The Economics of Monetary Policy Leaks“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, May 15:
We are very happy to welcome Andreas Ferrara ( @andyferrara.bsky.social ) at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „The U.S. Civil War’s Impact on Women’s Work and Political Participation “
@bsoeberlin.bsky.social

🚨 PhD Econ students in Berlin:
Join Andy Ferrara’s (@andyferrara.bsky.social) talk "Tips for Navigating the Economics Job Market" on May 16 at 11:00am!

@bsoeberlin.bsky.social @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social
#EconSky

🗓️ Thursday, April 24:
We are very happy to have Karine Nyborg at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . She will present her work on „Image preferences as a driver of polarization“.
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, April 17:
We are very happy to welcome Felix Holub as our first guest speaker this semester at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social .
He will present his work on „In-group favoritism in grant evaluation processes“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

As the semester starts we are happy to announce that the Research Seminar in Economics is also back. Every Thursday a different guest speaker will present their research on various topics. You are welcome to join us in the Boltzmannstraße 20, see you there👋

Extremely interesting special issue on reproducibility and replicability in @ei-sky.bsky.social, featuring my article with @lukasfink.bsky.social on replication code availability over time and across disciplines.

The Workshop "Immigration and Refugee Inflows: The Impact on Host Country Economies" was a great success! Thank you to all the participants for bringing all of your great ideas, presentations and discussions to FU Berlin (@fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social, @bsoeberlin.bsky.social)
See you next time!

We are very happy to welcome everybody at the "Workshop on Immigration & Refugee Inflows: The Impact on Host Country Economies" at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
Looking forward to two days full of interesting presentations!

@jfki-econ.bsky.social @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social #EconSky

Congratulations on this incredible opportunity, dear @garciatorres.bsky.social 🎉 After 4 years on my team, I’ve witnessed your dedication and talent firsthand, and I couldn’t be prouder. We will all miss you! Wishing you great success in your next career step as you join @harvardkennedy.bsky.social