Dr. Richard Bräuer

Richard Bräuer's research focus is on the drivers of firm innovation and its long term productivity effect. He uses microeconometrics to study the firm's innovation decision and general equilibrium models to understand its macroeconomic impact. His work was published in The Economic Journal, among others. He was part of the research project "Long Term Effects of Privatization in Eastern Germany", founded through the Max-Planck Research Award 2019 to Ufuk Akcigit. Previously, he was part of the scientific staff of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet), which gathers detailed data on the European Economy using a distributed micro moments approach. Richard Bräuer has worked as a teaching assistant at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam and given workshops on firm micro data as part of the CompNet initiative, e.g. at the European Commission.