Marcel Henkel
Marcel Henkel
Economist | Spatial Economics & Public Finance
Previously: University of Bern / CRED (2020–2025)
Contact: [Email] | [CV] | [Google Scholar] | [LinkedIn]
Open to roles in policy research and economic consulting (DE/CH)
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PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy
(with Tobias Seidel and Jens Suedekum)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 13, Issue 4, 433-68, November 2021.
Featured in: Spiegel Online, VoxEU
(with Tobias Seidel)
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 57, Issue 1, 333-352, January 2019.
WORKING PAPERS
WORKING PAPERS
The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting
(with Eunjee Kwon and Pierre Magontier)
Status: Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
Featured in: Freakonomics Radio, VoxEU, nadaesgratis
[CRED Research Paper No. 37, 03/2023]
Spatial Policies and Heterogeneous Employment Responses
(with Fabian Bald)
Status: Under Review
[Berlin School of Economics Discussion Paper No. 63, 03/2025]
RESEARCH AGENDA
RESEARCH AGENDA
The Geography of AI: How compute infrastructure reshapes spatial inequality
POLICY WORK
POLICY WORK
Consulted with the OECD Economics Department on fiscal federalism and regional policy for the 2025 Economic Survey of Germany
MEDIA
MEDIA
VoxEU | Freakonomics Radio | Spiegel Online
WORK IN PROGRESS
WORK IN PROGRESS
Institutional Path Dependence & Political Economy
Railway Towns and Path Dependence: Evidence from U.S. Land Grant Boundaries
(with Eric Strobl)
Endogenous Government Formation and Spatial Sorting
(with Pierre Magontier)
The Political Economy of Redistribution (1820-2010)
(with Pierre Magontier)
Financial Geography
Spatial Moral Hazard in Banking
Network GIV approach to identifying systemic risk transmission
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Education: PhD Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen (summa cum laude)
Positions: University of Bern / CRED, Advanced Postdoc (2020–2025)
Teaching: 25+ theses supervised · Evaluations: 5.5/6.0
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