Marcel Henkel
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Expert & Researcher on #urbanecon, Pub Econ, and Intl. Trade at @Unibern & @CRED_unibern
Berne, Switzerland
Joined June 2022
New paper on the impact that human capital accumulation has on growth convergence across regions. Take a look.
Differences in the cost of acquiring human capital shape the geography of economic development. Regional proportional reductions in these costs dominate uniform policies, from @klausvanieper, Dávid Krisztián Nagy, and @HansbergRossi
https://t.co/wRsxFauO13
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Had the pleasure of presenting at the 2025 https://t.co/U6JCawsafu seminar series — thanks for the kind invitation, great hosting, and sharp discussions. Wishing the next speakers an equally inspiring stay! 🔗 https://t.co/q2qYd7D7sR
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What a fabulous 2025 https://t.co/ziW9wvXDlf seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld, all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! https://t.co/iWFsQTLUdX
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📣📣 Call for Papers on Spatial Dynamics 📣📣 Join us for a special @YaleCowles research conference (Nov 14, 2025) & @JIntlEcon special issue. Deadline: June 30. More info + submissions here: https://t.co/2UoBCMkiWg
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📣 Call for papers 📣 19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association October 3 - 4, 2025 Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head @ckhead. Please submit your paper by May 30. https://t.co/vNeFWe4imK
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PhD students interested in urban economics: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. Learn from leading scholars, including @baum_snow, @melaniemorten, @AlvinMurph. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists. https://t.co/rIuXeo2ZlY
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New sources of big data generate valuable new insights in urban economics, past and present, from Ran Abramitzky, @leah_boustan, and Adam Storeygard https://t.co/c6Tc3uD7Vk
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Are you a PhD student working on topics related to globalization? Come hang out with us at Dartmouth for a term as a Globalization Ph.D. Fellow! We're now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year: https://t.co/Y19ZrKxTfJ
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Great news! Congratulations and all the best for the new journey!
It is official! 🙌🙌🙌 i am thrilled to join @WFUEconomics as an assistant professor. It is a wonderful and collaborative department. I am thankful to so many people that made this adventure a great one, particularly @paul_gertler @marcogleznav Stuart Rosenthal 👏. See you in NC
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🚨New WP alert🚨 An updated draft of "Spatial Implications of Telecommuting," joint work with @parkhomenko_a_v , is now resubmitted to @RevEconStudies ! https://t.co/S40CBiaC4r In this thread, we'll review the high points of the paper and have a look at what's new. 1/
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Presented by @parkhomenko_a_v at our CRED Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics on February 13-14, 2025. This paper offers key insights into dynamic urban modeling, focusing on forward-looking behavior, spatial frictions, and transition dynamics. 📊
Developing a dynamic urban model integrating spatial and macro-housing elements to analyze the effects of spatially varied shocks and policies, from Brian Greaney, Andrii Parkhomenko, and @SVNieuwerburgh
https://t.co/FOB6qzLalN
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Insightful read on #PlaceBasedPolicy in the US! 🌍 150 years of federal, state, and local initiatives shaping diverse programs. Key takeaway: geographic variation in governmental capacity matters! 📊✨#SpatialEconomics #EconomicDevelopment
The US increasingly relies on place-based policy to help distressed regions, but many regions lack the capacity to obtain resources or implement effective policy, from Gordon H. Hanson, Dani Rodrik, and Rohan Sandhu https://t.co/c1iThjYp7O
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🚀 Early-career women in Economic Geography & Spatial Economics - join us at LSE for WECW-EGSE (12–13 May 2025) 📈 Apply by 1 March! Send a 2-page abstract to e.renzullo@lse.ac.uk (Subject: WECW-EGSE) @Ele_ren94 @crescenzi_r 🔗 More info https://t.co/7k3qQJRiEy
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💥 A new measure of quality of life explains why people like living in bigger cities ✍️ @Ahlfeldt Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth & Tobias Seidel @CEP_LSE
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Cities have a higher quality of life than other areas, according to new research ranking the quality of life in Germany.
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A must-read for anyone interested in optimal spatial policies and addressing spatial inequalities. 📚✨
Summarizing recent methods to study optimal spatial policies, from Pablo D. Fajgelbaum and Cecile Gaubert https://t.co/mU9mLfcbHf
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Is investing in public school facilities worth it? Some think it's always a good idea. Others say it's always a waste. Which one is it? Neither. In some sense, it's not even the right question. Instead we should ask: when does money work and for whom? https://t.co/pNubJpVT4E
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ABSTRACT. This article identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school distr
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Exploring the Bernese Alps after the CRED workshop! #CREDWorkshop #EconTwitter @UrbanEconomics #UrbanEcon
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The program for our upcoming annual European meeting is now online: https://t.co/xehA0R9UKJ.
#UEA2025, hosted by Humboldt University in Berlin, features keynotes by @NinaPavcnik & @HansbergRossi and more than 60 paper sessions. To register, visit https://t.co/KiYcDvQfVS
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Thank you for participating and your great presentation!
Thanks for organizing this great workshop. A pleasure to be there!
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Day 2 of the CRED workshop in Bern! Exciting sessions and keynote by Gilles Duranton #CREDWorkshop #EconTwitter @UrbanEconomics
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Workshop 📢: @alandebromhead @cian_ruane and I are organizing a workshop at the intersection of economic history and international trade on June 20, 2025. @EconomicsUCD @centralbank_ie and @cepr_org are joining up to talk about the past and present of trade policy.
Call for Papers – "Uncertain Tides: The Past and Present of Trade Policy". -
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