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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Potsdam University and Berlin School of Economics. My research interests are Political Economy, Regional Economics, Economic History, and Labor Economics. I teach the master courses "Political Economics", "Urban Economics" and "Seminar Economics of Autocracy" and the bachelor course "Government and Allocation".

CV Email: max.deter (at) gmail.com

WORKING PAPERS

Networks of Dissent: Social Leaders and Protest in an Autocracy (with Johannes Buggle and Martin Lange), R&R Economic Journal BSoE Discussion Paper, Media: BSoE Blogpost, Bluesky, BSoE Interview

Migration and Innovation: The Impact of East German Inventors on West Germany’s Technological Development (with Antonin Bergeaud, Maria Greve, and Michael Wyrwich), submitted

CEPR Discussion Paper, Media: BSoE Blogpost, Twitter, BSoE Interview

PUBLICATIONS

Home Sweet Home: Working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (2023, with Sumit Deole and Yue Huang), Labour Economics

Are the Supporters of Socialism the Losers of Capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and Transition Success (2023, with Martin Lange), European Journal of Political Economy

Awards: SOEP Best Paper Award 2022; Media: FAZ, Ifo Dresden berichtet, LSE Business Review

Selection, Socialization, and Risk Preferences in the Finance Industry: Longitudinal Evidence for German Finance Professionals (2023, with André van Hoorn), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Media: LSE Business Review

WORK IN PROGRESS

Socialist Geography meets a Market Economy: Evidence from East Germany (with Moritz Hennicke and Felix Rösel)

Exit and Suppressing Voice - Evidence from Stasi Arrests in East Germany (with Kalle Kappner and Hans Lueders)

Ordinary Men - Selection into Nazi-Organizations during the Third Reich (with Luis Bosshart, Leander Heldring, Cathrin Mohr, and Matthias Weigand)