Carolin Formella, M.Sc.

Doctoral Student and Junior Research Fellow

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

+49 89 24246-455
carolin.formella(at)ip.mpg.de

Areas of Interest:

Migration, Innovation, Development Economics, Gender Economics 

Academic Résumé

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

Work Experience

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

Other Activities

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

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

Presentations

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
MAKSI Workshop, MPI/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

Projects

Courses

2024
Honors Program in Economics
LMU
Munich