Welcome.
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the PROSPER Research Center at Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics and a Research Fellow at the Trade Policy Research Group at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). I completed my PhD in Economics at Bielefeld University in January 2026.
My research examines how firms in international trade respond to global uncertainty and non-market forces, including sanctions, institutional frictions, and changing information environments. I study the relationship-specificity of trade partnerships—what makes them valuable, and when they make firms resilient to trade frictions and sudden shocks. A second, growing strand of my work examines how gender norms and beliefs form and shape economic and political behavior. I bring these interests together at the firm level by asking how leadership and gender shape the trade relationships firms build and their resilience to shocks.
Fields: International Trade, Firm Dynamics, Gender Economics.
Research
- Trading on continuity: Product quality upgrading under weak institutions (Job-market paper)
- Who is to suffer? Quantifying the impact of sanctions on German firms. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2024), 228, 106767. (with Holger Görg and Saskia Meuchelböck)
- Gravity of attention and affection: Evidence from social media interactions during the World Cup (with Julian Hinz)
- Social media and the gender political gap (with Anna Bernard)
Selected Policy Outreach
- “Gender and political views in Europe: Is the divide widening among youth?” (with Anna Bernard)
- “War in Ukraine and Western sanctions – How vulnerable are German firms?” (with Holger Goerg and Saskia Meuchelboeck)
- “Unternehmensanalyse zum Deutschen Handel mit Russland, Ukraine und Belarus” -- confidential report (with Holger Görg and Saskia Meuchelböck)
- “Effects of the AfCFTA for German and European companies” (with Sonali Chowdhry, Julian Hinz and Rainer Thiele)
- “Perspektiven einer erfolgreichen europäischen Handelspolitik im Kontext geopolitischer Herausforderungen” (with Gabriel Felbermayr, Katrin Kamin, Sonali Chowdhry, Julian Hinz, Sandra Kill, and Alexander Sandkamp)
- “The Economic Costs of War by Other Means” (with Sonali Chowdhry, Gabriel Felbermayr, Julian Hinz, Katrin Kamin, and Hendrik Mahlkow)
- “Aktualisierung der Studie zu Auswirkungen des Freihandelsteils im Rahmen eines Assoziierungsabkommens zwischen der EU und dem MERCOSUR auf die deutsche Wirtschaft” -- confidential report (with Rahel Aichele, Martin Braml, Gabriel Felbermayr, Lisandra Flach, Julian Hinz, Katrin Kamin, Feodora Teti, Erdal Yalcin and Marina Steininger)
- “A crisis in times of crisis: Combating COVID-19 under sanctions in Iran” (with Sonali Chowdhry and Katrin Kamin)