work in progress

presented at: Kiel Institute Young Researchers Seminar

In the second half of the nineteenth century, a nationwide railway network was rolled out across Denmark. We study how the railway changed domestic transport cost, reshaped the spatial allocation of export activity. Lower inland transportation cost led to a re-routing via the most efficient ports, which in turn enabled trade expansion. The uneven cost changes for dairy products relative to bulkier commodities fueled the structural transition from grains to processed animal products in the agricultural sector.

presented at:  Kiel Institute Research Seminar, Kiel-Aarhus Trade Workshop, ETSG 2024 

This paper investigates the impact of rail service interruptions on customer switching behaviour. Using unique booking data on intercity bus services, we exploit regional variation in rail service cancellations during a strike to show that the disruption in rail transport increases bus ticket sales. The effect persists beyond the strike, indicating that travellers do not return to their originally preferred transport mode. It is particularly pronounced for passengers travelling on weekends. The findings suggest that customers were previously under-experimenting. From a policy perspective, our results highlight the need to incentivise experimentation to foster competition, facilitate transformative change and raise welfare.  

CESifo Working Paper,  later version (July '24), [slides] 

presented at: Kiel Institute Research Seminar, BiGSEM,  ETSG 2023, EPCS 2023, RGS 2023, ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics, Kiel Seminar on Statistics and Econometrics, Workshop on Economics of Transportation (Barcelona), UEA North America Meeting 

As part of a team of researchers from Kiel Institute, wiiw Vienna, and ifo, I contributed to this project for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. See for example our report on Russian maritime shipping under trade restrictions.

Among several reports regarding the regional economic outlook for Northern Germany I wrote as part of the Kiel Institute's nordwärts project is this Kiel Policy Brief on the future of the Port of Hamburg.

covered in: Manager Magazin, Der SPIEGEL, NDR Info Rederzeit

Before academia, I worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's division for Public Integrity and Anti-Corruption, where I contributed to the early stages of the OECD Public Integrity Indicators and authored the report on Behavioural Insights for Public Integrity.