Moritz Hennicke

(he/him)
moritz (dot) hennicke (at) ulb (dot) be
       
Universität Bremen in Germany and
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium

Biography

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I am a political economist trained in methods of causal inference, economic modelling and machine learning. I am broadly interested in political economy, public and industrial economics. I obtained a joint PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles and Cergy Paris Université in October 2022. I am currently a Post-Doc based at the Universität Bremen and Université libre de Bruxelles in the Mod-Block project. I will join Maastricht University in October as a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow to work on Industrial Policy and Corporate Connections.

Publications

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1. Ethnic inequality and forced displacement, PLOS One, 2022,
   with Tilman Brück
   Journal   |   BibTex

2. The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy, Journal of Public Economics, 2025
   with Lukas Mergele and Moritz Lubczyk
   Policy: Summary for the EBRD Transition Report 2024-2025 on Industrial Policy (Box 4.2) and VoxEU
   Press coverage: LeSoir+, SPON, SZ (I, II), MDR, WDR, ND, FOCUS, FP
   JPubE   |   Preprint   |   Data   |   BibTex

Working papers

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1. The Impact of Restructuring of Communist Firms on Workers
   Preprint   |   Slides

2. Privatizations Spark Socialist Backlash: Evidence from East Germany’s Transformation, submitted
   with Anselm Hager, Werner Krause, and Lukas Mergele
   Preprint   |   Slides   |   BibTex

3. The Returns to Lobbying on Trade Policy: Evidence from TPP, submitted
   with Michael Blanga-Gubbay
   Preprint

Software

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1. nuts: Convert European Regional Data in R, rOpenSci, 2024,
   with Werner Krause
   Vignette   |   Repo   |  

Replications

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1. Comment on “Gone with the Wind: The Consequences of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan”, I4R Discussion Paper Series, 2023,
   with Joanne Haddad, Lamis Kattan, Thibault Lemaire and Marco Musumeci
   PDF   |   BibTex

Old ideas

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1. Who is the key campaigner? Civil society organizations in the European Union, 2016,
   Poster