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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions By Gabriel M Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel Read more at: ow.ly/FpaR50Up6SB

📢📢The Berlin School of Economics @BSE_Berlin will be recruiting PhD students in spatial economics 📢📢 (again). Still, time to apply before the 🧑‍🎄 break. See bqse.de for an overview of our activities in "spatial". Apply now & retweet! berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-programm/a…

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Exciting 2-year PostDoc at CBS Department of Economics, exploring the geographic dimension of automation using Danish data - firm allocation, worker mobility, & more. Interested in automation, trade, or urban econ? Apply now! 🔗 econjobmarket.org/positions?oid=…

For my ERC funded project on the economics of cities I am looking for one or two predocs. Apply by 27th January 2025: tinyurl.com/324wv958 Econ RA Listings

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Meine Zusammenfassung zum Forschungsstand zu den ökonomischen Effekten guter #Architektur für die Zeitschrift #WerkBauenWohnen. Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn: Investitionen in Baukultur lohnen sich. Noch mehr wenn es eine Zerifizierung gäbe! pressreader.com/switzerland/we… Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

💥 A new measure of quality of life explains why people like living in bigger cities ✍️ Gabriel M Ahlfeldt Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth & Tobias Seidel Centre for Economic Performance blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

Very proud of my former LSE Geography & Environment PhD student Lukáš Makovský (co-supervised with Felipe Carozzi). His first journal publication in #JEMA, showing that you cannot think about noise and green (dis)amenities in isolation. Join me in celebrating. 🥳🍾 doi.org/10.1016/j.jenv…

The #BerlinSchoolofEconomics has a YouTube channel now. The first post (INSIGHTS audio Ep. 1) is about Spatial Economics, what it is, and why it matters! youtube.com/watch?v=p4Wsl4…

Thanks to all presenters and discussants. So far, it seems to be going well (touch wood), thanks to our fantastic teams of true organizers!

🚨 CfP: Conference on regional inequalities | Berlin, 3-4 Sept 2025 ▶️Keynote speakers: Naomi Hausman Gabriel M Ahlfeldt 📆Apply by May 31st ! ℹ️More info: tinyurl.com/5n6vbrm5 Please RT!

The 2025 season of the BSoE QSE course is running. Here is how it is going: sites.google.com/view/bqse/bqse…. Here is my latest toy for the current cohort and anyone else. Maybe the simplest way of computing travel time matrices, designed for absolute noobs! github.com/Ahlfeldt/TTMAT…

Please don't forget to submit your abstract to the 16th Geoff Hewings Regional Economics Workshop at WIFO! We are looking forward to great keynotes by Gabriel M Ahlfeldt and Stefanie Peer. Policies for Smart Specialisation ERSA Regional Studies Association Zenne Hellinga Martina Pardy Eduardo Hernández-Rodríguez J Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo Dima Yankova