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We compiled this quick starter package of Economists in Berlin.
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You‘re welcome to nominate yourself or others to join!
🗓️ 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
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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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
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🗓️ 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
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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🎉 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...
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...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🗓️ 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
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🗓️ 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
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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🎉 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.
October 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🗓️ 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“
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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“
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🗓️ 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
July 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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📢 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
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July 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
🗓️ 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
June 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🗓️ 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
June 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🗓️ 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
June 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🗓️ 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
June 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🗓️ 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
June 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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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
Excited to share that my joint work with @steinhardt.bsky.social and Marc-André Luik on immigrant housing in the US is out in the Journal of Housing Economics!
We provide the first causal evidence linking immigrant language skills to homeownership. #EconSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Language proficiency and homeownership: Evidence from U.S. immigrants
In this paper, we deliver the first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host-country language proficiency and homeownership. Using a…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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👏👏👏 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! 🥳
May 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🎉 Here‘s the link to our new #EconFUBerlin Newsletter with all the updates you need:
www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...
May 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🗓️ 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
May 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🗓️ 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
May 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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🚨 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
May 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🗓️ 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
April 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🗓️ 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
April 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM