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Bart Golsteyn’s main research interests are in human capital, social economics, and economic preference parameters (time and risk preferences). He has published articles among others in the Journal of Political Economy, PNAS, Economic Journal, and Journal of the European Economic Association. In 2016, he received a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

He is Professor of Human Capital and Social Economics and Head of Department Macro, International and Labor Economics (MILE) at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University.

Selma Walther’s research focuses on the intersection between family economics and labour economics. She is particularly interested in fertility, its determinants, and how labour opportunities shape fertility choices. During her visit at CESifo, she is looking forward to developing ideas on male fertility further, as well as launching a new project investigating the persistent decline in global fertility rates. 

She is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and is currently Co-Editor at the Review of Economics of the Household. 

The CESifo Working Paper Series offers a wide range of economic research across diverse topics. Here are the papers that recently garnered the most attention, based on download figures.

Industrial policy has returned to the forefront worldwide. The EU is engaged in an effort to expand the scope and scale of its industrial strategy. The goal: to make the continent more resilient and autonomous in an increasingly assertive global landscape, whether on an industrial, commercial, or geopolitical level. To achieve this, however, the bloc must take coordinated and targeted action to leverage its comparative advantages and diversify its R&D partnerships. Its technological sovereignty is at stake.