Hello I'm

Moritz Goldbeck

I'm a Ph.D. student at the Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE) at University of Munich and a Junior Economist at the ifo Institute.


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My research

I'm an applied microeconomist studying questions on the economics of digital transformation and globalization.


Research

Working Paper

Career Concerns as Public Good

Software developers use open-source software to signal programming skills on the labor market, thereby creating a public good.

December 12, 2023

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Policy Report

Green Innovation in the Automotive Industry

After focusing on dirty technologies for decades, the German automotive industry attempts a turnaround toward green powertrain technology.

December 11, 2023

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Working Paper

Knowledge Worker Collaboration

Why are U.S. software developers located in few big tech clusters and does digitization facilitate remote collaboration?

March 3, 2023

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News

07/12/2023 Presenting at CESifo Workshop on Big Data in Munich, Germany.

19/10/2023 Presenting our work on green skills in the automotive industry at Bertelsmann Foundation in Berlin, Germany.

07/07/2023 Presenting at ZEW ICT Conference in Mannheim, Germany.

06/05/2023 Presenting at UEA European Meeting in Milan, Italy.

24/10/2022 Visiting the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School in Boston as Visiting Fellow.

08/08/2022 Joining Analysis Group in Los Angeles as Summer Associate.

14/06/2022 New bidt blog post on mobile Internet and the regional connectivity gap in Germany.

13/10/2021 Presented ongoing work on digital infrastructure for mobile Internet at the 2021 bidt Conference Poster Session.

28/09/2021 Visited Stockholm University for a couple of days and presented my working paper on Digitization in Sub-Saharan Africa.

20/03/2021 The Bavarian Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) is funding my research project with Valentin Lindlacher on digital infrastructure with 56kEUR.

01/01/2021 Joined the Collaborative Research Center "Rationality & Competition" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on a research project about professional networks in high-skilled labor markets.

21/04/2020 Wrote a blog post with Alexander-Nikolai Sandkamp for Ökonomenstimme on the how German firms might profit from Chinas Belt-and-Road initiative.

02/01/2020 Started my Ph.D. studies at the Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE).