Carolin Formella, M.Sc.

Areas of Interest:

Migration, Innovation, Development Economics, Gender Economics 

Since 10/2021
Junior Research Fellow and Doctoral Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research) and at the Munich Graduate School of Economics, LMU Munich

10/2018 – 03/2021
M.Sc. in Economics, Thesis on “Climate Change, Migration and the Role of Networks”, LMU Munich

10/2014 – 11/2017
B.Sc. in Economics, Thesis on “The Effects of Trade on Wage Inequality”, LMU Munich

04/2021 – 09/2021
Internship
GRID (Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital Economy) Unit
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels

12/2018 – 04/2021
Research Assistant
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)

02/2019 – 03/2019
Internship
Business Analytics
Munich RE, Mexico City

10/2017 – 02/2018
Internship
Economic Research
Munich RE, Munich

11/2015 – 06/2016
Working Student
Fundscontrolling
BayernInvest, Munich

Since 03/2020
Member of the Research Team
The Women in Economics Initiative

10/2018 – 10/2019
ECONnect Program
Department of Economics, LMU Munich

14.10.2025
Access to Technology and Innovation – Evidence from the Chip Ban
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Tutzing

07.09.2025
Restricted Talent: How Migration Policies Shape Knowledge Flows in Science and Innovation
MaxSI Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition/CBS
Munich

18.06.2025
Restricted Talent: How Migration Policies Shape Knowledge Flows in Science and Innovation
EFI Research Lunch, Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy

13.05.2025
Welfare-Improving Technology Adoption in High-Severity Settings
Emergency Environmental Health Forum (EEHF), IKRK
Geneva, Switzerland

03.04.2025
Restricted Talent: How Migration Policies Shape Knowledge Flows in Science and Innovation
18^th Workshop on the Organisation, Economics, and Policy of Scientific Research – WOEPSR, Bureau d’Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), University of Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France

27.03.2025
Restricted Talent: How Migration Policies Shape Knowledge Flows in Science and Innovation
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Zugspitze

24.09.2024
Higher Education Mobility as a Geopolitical Soft Power?
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Martinsried/Planegg

07.05.2024
Restricted Talent: How Migration Policies Shape Knowledge Flows in Science and Innovation
MaxSI Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition/CBS
Copenhagen

25.03.2024
Welfare-Improving Technology Adoption in High-Severity Settings
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Tutzing

05. – 07.09.2022
Restricted Talent: How Migration Policies Shape Knowledge Flows in Science and Innovation
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Bernried

01. – 02.7.2022
Medical Job Ads and the Quality of Hospitals
Poster presentation, CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2022
San Servolo, Venice, Italy

11.04.2022
Medical Job Ads
Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Ohlstadt

Essays on Migration and Mobility

2024
Honors Program in Economics
LMU
Munich