About me

I am a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of St.Gallen supervised by Roland Hodler. My research covers topics in Economic Geography, International Trade, and Macroeconomics with a focus on climate change and developing countries.

From September 23 through June 24, I visited Adam Storeygard at Tufts University.

I will be on the academic job market in 25/26.

You can find my CV here.

Work in Progress

• Skill Supply, Firm Size, and Economic Development, with Charles Gottlieb and Markus Poschke.
Abstract.

This paper harmonizes individual-level data on labor supply for 54 countries to document how firm size and the skill intensity of employment by firm size vary across countries. First, it finds that the share of employment in large firms in high-income countries is more than three times larger than in low-income countries. Second, it shows that across countries, employees of large firms are more skilled than those of small firms. Third, it documents that lower skill endowments in low-income countries affect employment in firms of different sizes asymmetrically: the skill intensity of employment is much lower in small firms in low-income countries than in high-income countries but only slightly lower in large firms. This evidence suggests that large firms rely particularly strongly on employing high-skill workers so that the low skill endowment of low-income countries limits the size of firms in these countries.

News: A descriptive version of our paper is featured in the World Bank's World Development Report 2024. Stay tuned for updates!

• New title of my JMP: Spatial Climate Policies.
• Intra-national trade costs over space and time., with Roland Hodler and Paul Schaudt.

Teaching Assistance

Bachelor
• Failed States and Nation Building (2024)
• Economics of Climate Change (2023)
• Public Sector Economics (2022-2023; 2025)
• Development Economics (2020-2022; 2024)
• Data Handling: Import, Cleaning, and Visualisation (2021-2023)
• Introduction to Macroeconomics (2017-2019)
• Operations Management (2017)
Master
• Political Economics (2021-2022)