Dr. Carlo Birkholz

Dr. Carlo Birkholz is an Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat a. Z.) at the Chair of Development Economics (Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs) at the University of Göttingen, a Junior Research Associate at the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, and affiliated with the Norwegian Centre for Taxation. Before joining Göttingen, he conducted research at ZEW and was a visiting scholar at the Norwegian School of Economics and the University of Notre Dame.

In February 2025, he earned his doctorate in economics (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Mannheim with the dissertation “Digital Threads and Regional Ties: The Study of Global Services Trade and Regional Favoritism.”

His research interests lie in development economics, political economy, and public finance. In his work, he frequently combines innovative data sources—such as satellite imagery, text and web-scraped data, or electricity consumption data from smart meters—with modern machine learning methods like random forests or large language models.

As part of his policy advisory activities, he has also worked on the effects and interactions of fiscal and monetary policy within the European Union.