Welcome to the Chair of Public Economics
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 2026: New Publication
The paper Property tax competition: A quantitative assessment by Rainald Borck, Jun Oshiro and Yasuhiro Sato was published in the Journal of Urban Economics.
April 2026: New Working Paper
The CESifo Working Paper Optimal City Size with Endogenous Fertility by Rainald Borck, Tadashi Morita and Yasuhiro Sato was published.
January 2026: Guest article in the FAZ
Rainald Borck, Matthias Kalkuhl and Kai Lessmann presented their working paper Is Work from Home Good for the Environment? in a guest article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
December 2025: Mention in the Berliner Zeitung:
The BSoE Discussion Paper “The Church of Resistance: Social Leaders and Protests in an Autocracy” by Max Deter, Johannes Buggle, and Martin Lange was featured in an article in the Berliner Zeitung.
November 2025: New Working Paper
The CESifo Working Paper Is Work from Home Good for the Environment? by Rainald Borck, Matthias Kalkuhl and Kai Lessmann was published.