Dominik Naeher, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher and Interim Professor of Development Economics
(Chair of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer)

Dominik Naeher joined University of Göttingen in 2021. Prior to his current position he worked as Assistant Professor of Economics at University College Dublin and earned his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt (GSEFM) in 2018. His research combines economic theory with empirical methods to study topics across development economics, microeconomics, international economics, and the economics of information, with a particular focus on examining how information frictions shape economic decisions and development outcomes. His recent work encompasses areas such as technology adoption, climate adaptation, agricultural productivity, market regulation, regional integration, and policy evaluation. Dominik Naeher has taught at universities in Germany, France, Ireland, China, Korea, and South Africa. He also regularly shares his expertise by providing policy advice to international organizations and NGOs, including the World Bank, EBRD, Asian Development Bank, UNU-CRIS, and African Center for Economic Transformation.

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Research Interests: Development Economics, Microeconomics, International Economics, Economics of Information

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Working Papers:

  • The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts (with Amal Ahmad, Sebastian Vollmer). RAND Journal of Economics, R&R.

  • Using Data-Powered Positive Deviance to Assess the Adoption and Outcomes of Early-Sown Wheat Varieties in India (with Basma Albanna, Gunnar Hesch, Daniel Otto, Mohammad Hassan, Meha Jain, Sebastian Vollmer, Hanna Ewell, Raphael Nawrotzki). International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, R&R.

  • The Long-term Consequences of the Global 1918 Influenza Pandemic: A Systematic Analysis of Census Data from 51 Countries (with Juditha Wójcik, Christian Bommer, Sebastian Vollmer).

  • When Information Provision Backfires (And When Not): Insights from a Multi-Category Pricing Model with Rationally Inattentive Buyers (with Sergey Turlo).

  • Is Escaping the Fiscal Pro-Cyclicality Trap Possible? Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa (with Želko Bogetić).


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