Christine Binzel

Professor of Economics: Economy and Society of the Middle East

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Affiliations: AALIMS Faculty Fellow, CEPR Research Affiliate, IZA Research Fellow

Memberships: Research Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association, German Social and Economic History Society 

Fields of Interest: Development Economics, Economic History,  Political Economy, Behavioral Economics, Causal Inference, Middle East and North Africa, Social Mobility and Social Movements

* News *

• Participation in a national press conference on the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the EU's and Germany's role (July 29, 2025) >> here
  
  

• New version of  my paper "The Protestant Reformation and Its Transformation of Society: The Rise of the Vernacular" available (joint with Andreas Link and Rajesh Ramachandran) >> here
  
  

• I presented my work on how the Protestant Reformation transformed society through the increased use of the vernacular in printing (joint with Andreas Link and Rajesh Ramachandran) at the CEPR Paris Symposium 2024 (December 18, 2024) >> conference website >> here
  
  

• Participation in a national press conference on the ICC arrest warrants against Netanjahu and Gallant and Germany's role (November 29, 2024) >> here
  
  

• I presented my work on diamond certification and armed conflict (joint with Dietmar Fehr and Andreas Link) at the KIEL-CEPR African Economic Development Conference (AEDC) in Berlin (12-13 September 2024) >> conference website  >> paper