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

Teaching in winter term 2026/27

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

News

August 20, 2026 | exam review session 
The exam review session for all exams will take place centrally on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. in S22. You can register in advance by emailing your instructor by October 25, 2026.

July 17, 2026 | SUPERvisor Award
Professor Thomas Siedler was presented with the SUPERvisor Award  for his outstanding commitment to academic supervision. 

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.”