Welcome to the Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy, held by Professor Thomas Siedler (PhD)

Teaching in summer term 2026

Our current courses in the winter term can be found here.

News

May 8, 2026 | State Teaching Award
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Thomas Siedler has been awarded this year’s State Teaching Award for his “Children’s Book Seminar.”

May 5 | MasterClass with Scott Cunningham
We are delighted to invite you to the 2026 masterclass “Causal Inference – The Mixtape” with Scott Cunningham, which will take place on 15 and 16 June 2026 at DIW Berlin. You can find the programme here. Registration is open until 1 June 2026.

March 16 | Welcome
We are delighted to welcome Alena Nikolaeva to the team as a student employee with immediate effect.

March 10: Publication
The study ‘Online Tutoring, School Performance, and School-to-Work Transitions: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial’ by Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Malte Sandner and Thomas Siedler will be published in the European Economic Review.

February 9: Innovative Teaching Projects 2025 – BA Children's Book Seminar
In the winter semester of 2025/26, Prof. Thomas Siedler offered a bachelor's seminar on the topic of “Discover the world of economics: Exciting stories about economic problems in children's book format” for the first time. The seminar was funded by the University of Potsdam as an “Innovative Teaching Project 2025.”