Marcel Henkel

A week ago, I gave the “Recent Developments in the Political Economy of Elections and Democracy” lecture at the 2026 AEA @ASSAMeeting ! Video: aeaweb.org/webcasts/2026/… Slides: vincentpons.org/recent-develop… Thread with the TL;DR of my talk below.

Differences in the cost of acquiring human capital shape the geography of economic development. Regional proportional reductions in these costs dominate uniform policies, from @klausvanieper, Dávid Krisztián Nagy, and @HansbergRossi nber.org/papers/w34310

What a fabulous 2025 bqse.de seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld, all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! sites.google.com/view/bqse/bqse…

It is official! 🙌🙌🙌 i am thrilled to join @WFUEconomics as an assistant professor. It is a wonderful and collaborative department. I am thankful to so many people that made this adventure a great one, particularly @paul_gertler @marcogleznav Stuart Rosenthal 👏. See you in NC

Developing a dynamic urban model integrating spatial and macro-housing elements to analyze the effects of spatially varied shocks and policies, from Brian Greaney, Andrii Parkhomenko, and @SVNieuwerburgh nber.org/papers/w33512

The US increasingly relies on place-based policy to help distressed regions, but many regions lack the capacity to obtain resources or implement effective policy, from Gordon H. Hanson, Dani Rodrik, and Rohan Sandhu nber.org/papers/w33511

Summarizing recent methods to study optimal spatial policies, from Pablo D. Fajgelbaum and Cecile Gaubert nber.org/papers/w33493