I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Potsdam University. My research interests are Political Economy, Regional Economics, Economic History, and Labor Economics.
CV Email: max.deter (at) gmail.com
WORKING PAPERS
Migration and Innovation: The Impact of East German Inventors on West Germany’s Technological Development (with Antonin Bergeaud, Maria Greve, and Michael Wyrwich), CEPR Discussion Paper 19837
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
The Church of Resistance: Social Leaders and Protests in an Autocracy (with Johannes Buggle and Martin Lange)
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)