Prof. Dr. Katharina Erhardt

Professor of Economic Policy, in particular Trade and Competition Policy

Gelsenkirchen Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Marien University Hospital & School Gelsenkirchen
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Gelsenkirchen Building: 24.31
Floor/room: 01.01
Nordrhein-Westfalen

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2013 – 2017	Doctoral Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2014	Graduate Program, Study Center Gerzensee, Switzerland
2010 – 2012	M.Sc. International Economics and Worldwide Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany
2009 – 2010	Visiting Student, Universidad Mayor, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2007 – 2010	B.Sc. International Management, University of Flensburg, Germany

Since 2021	Professor of Economic Policy, esp. Trade and Competition Policy, Gelsenkirchen Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich-Heine-University Gelsenkirchen
2019 – 2021	Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
2017 – 2021	Postdoctoral Researcher and senior research fellow, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2013 – 2017	PhD student and research fellow, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Journal Articles:

Egger, Peter and Katharina Erhardt (2024): Heterogeneous Effects of Tariff and Nontariff Trade-Policy Barriers in Quantitative General Equilibrium. Quantitative Economics (forthcoming).
Egger, Peter, Katharina Erhardt, and Gerard Masllorens (2023): Backward versus Forward Integration of Firms in Global Value Chains. European Economic Review (153).
Erhardt, Katharina and Simon Haenni (2022): The Cultural Roots of Firm Entry, Exit, and Growth. The Economic Journal 132 (686), pp. 2767–2814.
Egger, Peter, Katharina Erhardt and Christian Keuschnigg (2020): Heterogeneous Tax Sensitivity of Firm-level Investments, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (176), pp. 512-538.
Raphael Auer, Ariel Burstein, Katharina Erhardt and Sarah Lein (2019): Exports and Invoicing: Evidence from the 2015 Swiss Franc Appreciation, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings (109), pp. 533-538.
Egger, Peter, Katharina Erhardt and Andrea Lassmann (2019): Immigration and Firms' Integration in International Production Networks, European Economic Review (111), pp. 1-34.
Erhardt, Katharina (2017): On Home Market Effects and Firm Heterogeneity, European Economic Review (98), pp. 316-340.
Egger, Peter and Katharina Erhardt (2016): EU-Swiss Trade Integration via Input-Output Linkages, Aussenwirtschaft, 67 (03), pp. 1-23.
Egger, Peter, Katharina Erhardt and Andrea Lassmann (2015): Productivity and R&D as Drivers of Exports and Domestic Sales - Semi-parametric Evidence from French Firm-level Data, World Economy 38 (7), pp. 1115-1129.

Chapters in books:

Erhardt, Katharina and Andrea Lassmann (2023): Immigration and international trade in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance , Oxford University Press.
Baltagi, Badi, Peter Egger and Katharina Erhardt (2017): The Estimation of Gravity Models in International Trade in The Econometrics of Multi-dimensional Panels Theory and Applications edited by Laszlo Matyas, Springer.

Egger, Peter, Katharina Erhardt and Sergey Nigai (2020):"Empirical Productivity Distributions and International Trade", CEPR Discussion Paper 15160.
Arni, Patrick, Peter Egger, Katharina Erhardt, Matthias Gubler and Philip Sauré (2024): "Heterogeneous Impacts of Trade Shocks on Workers", CEPR Discussion Paper 19017, CESifo Working Paper 11041, IZA DP 16895
Egger, Peter, Katharina Erhardt and Davide Suverato (2024): "How Aggregate Uncertainty Shapes the Spatial Economy", CEPR Discussion Paper 19016

Foreign Trade
International Economics
Trade Policy
Regional Economics
Applied Econometrics

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