Welcome to the Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy, held by Professor Thomas Siedler (PhD)
Teaching in winter term 2024/25
Our current courses in the winter term can be found here.
News
18.10.2024 | Welcome
We are delighted that Adrián Santonja will be supporting us as an academic assistant from November 1st, 2024.
15.10.2024 | Joachim-Herz Add-on Fellowship
Shushan Margaryan received the Joachim Herz Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics with a grant of 12.000 EUR. Congrats, Shushan!
10.10.2024 | Approval DFG research group project
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved our research group proposal (DFG-Forschungsgruppe) on the topic "Transformations in the Labor Market: Skilled Worker Shortages, Lack of Qualifications, and the Role of Policy"! This is a joint initiative of the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE), with the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) at the University of Potsdam involved in three of the seven projects. Looking very much forward to this exciting research project and the intensive collaboration within the Berlin School of Economics and these fantastic colleagues: Maja Adena, Natalia Danzer, Shushanik Margaryan, Katharina Wrohlich, Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Sulin Sardoschau, Peter Haan, Jonas Jessen, Max Steinhardt, Jan Marcus, Marco Caliendo, Jan Nimczik, and Christian Traxler. Special thanks to our Spokesperson Peter Haan!
Shushanik Margaryan and Thomas Siedler will receive around EUR 220,000 for 4 years for the sub-project “Educational policy interventions and labor market-relevant results”.
05.09.2024 | Welcome
We are delighted that Theresa Henkel will be supporting us as an academic assistant from October 1st, 2024.
07.03.2024 | Paper accepted
We are happy to announce that the paper titled "War, International Spillovers, and Adolescents: Evidence from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in 2022" by Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Frauke Peter, Malte Sandner and Thomas Siedler is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO).
Further news can be found in the archive.