Welcome to the Chair of Public Sector, Finance and Social Policy
The chair is part of the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam and is headed by Prof. Dr. Rainald Borck.
News
April 2025: Application Portal for Tutors in the Department of Economics
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April 2025: New Publication
The BSoE Discussion Paper “The Church of Resistance: Social Leaders and Protests in an Autocracy” by Max Deter, Johannes Buggle, and Martin Lange was published.
December 2024: New Publication
The CEPR Discussion Paper “Migration and Innovation: The Impact of East German Inventors on West Germany’s Technological Development” by Max Deter, Antonin Bergeaud, Maria Greve, and Michael Wyrwich was published.
September 2024: New Publication
The paper "Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model" by Rainald Borck and Peter Mulder was published in the Journal of Development Economics.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030438782400097X
June 2024: New publication
The paper "Urban pollution: A global perspective" by Rainald Borck and Philipp Schrauth was published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069624000871
June 2024: New publication
The paper "JUE insight: Ticket to paradise? The effect of a public transport subsidy on air quality" by Niklas Gohl and Philipp Schrauth was published in the Journal of Urban Economics.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119024000135