Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research









LEONIE REHER, M.SC.











SHORT CV






  • Since 2023

    Research assistant, Institute for Small Business Economics at the Georg‐August‐University Göttingen



  • Since 2021

    Research assistant, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research, University of Göttingen



  • 2019 - 2021

    M.Sc. International Economics, University of Göttingen



  • 2015 - 2019

    B. A. North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin



  • 2017 - 2020

    Semester abroad, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA














PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE



  • Since 2023: Research assistant at the Institute for Small Business Economics at the Georg‐August‐University Goettingen (ifh Göttingen)

  • Intern at the U.S. Commercial Service at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin

  • Intern and working student in Public Sector Consulting at KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft









RESEARCH INTERESTS



  • innovation economics

  • regional economics

  • international trade

  • labor economics

  • digitalization









PUBLICATIONS



  • Reher, L., Thomä, J. & Bizer, K. (2026). Measuring the DUI mode of innovation efficiently: A short-scale approach. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 36 (24).

  • Avdeenko, A., Kaiser, M., Kis-Katos, K. & Reher, L. (2026). Sanctions, sales, and stigma: Intermediary online firms’ market role in sustaining trade. Journal of International Economics, 159, 104197.

  • Hädrich, T., Reher, L., & Thomä, J. (2025). Solving the Puzzle? An Innovation Mode Perspective on Lagging Regions. International Regional Science Review, 48 (4), 396-436.

  • Reher, L., Runst, P. & Thomä, J. (2024). Personality and regional innovativeness: An empirical analysis of German patent data. Research Policy, 53 (6), 105006.

  • Reher, L., Runst, R., Thomä, J. & Bizer, K. (2024). Measuring non-R&D drivers of innovation: The case of SMEs in lagging regions. ifh Working Papers (No. 45). Göttingen.

  • Avdeenko, A., Kaiser, M., Kis-Katos, K. & Reher, L. (2024). Sanctions, Sales, and Stigma: A Tale on the Performance of International Brands in Russia. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19215. CEPR Press, Paris & London.

  • Reher, L., Runst, P. & Thomä, J. (2024). Persönlichkeitsmuster: Ein Erklärungsansatz für das Innovationsgeschehen in strukturschwachen Regionen? FGF-Forschungsnetzwerk Entrepreneurship, Innovation und Mittelstand e.V. und IfM Bonn, Policy Brief “Unternehmertum im Fokus”, 6/2024. Bonn.








PRESENTATIONS



  • 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography, 04.-08-06.2025, Worcester, MA, USA: “Measuring non-R&D drivers of innovation: The case of SMEs in lagging regions.”

  • Research Conference on “Doing, Using and Interacting - Innovation in lagging Regions”, 21.-22.11.2024, Göttingen, Deutschland: “Measuring non R&D drivers of innovation: The case of SMEs in lagging regions.”

  • Innovationspolitik für strukturschwache Regionen, 24.-25.09.2024, Loccum, Deutschland: “Erfassung des Innovationsmodus von KMU strukturschwacher Regionen.”

  • 6th Creative Spark, 06.-07.03.2024, Berlin, Deutschland: “Personality and Regional Innovativeness: An Empirical Analysis of German Patent Data.”

  • 2024 RSA Annual Conference, 11.-14.06.2024, Florenz, Italien: “Measuring non R&D drivers of innovation: The case of SMEs in lagging regions.”

  • 7th Geography of Innovation Conference, 10.-12.01.2024, Manchester, UK: “DUI drivers of innovation in lagging regions.”

  • Rethinking Clusters 2023, 28-29.09.2023, Valencia, Spanien: “DUI drivers of innovation.”

  • VfS Annual Conference 2023, 24.-27.09.2023, Regensburg, Deutschland: “Sanctions, Sales, and Stigma: Tale on the Performance of International Brands in Russia.”

  • 2022 RSA Winter Conference, 10.-11.11.2022, London, UK: “Personality and Regional Innovativeness: An Empirical Analysis of German Patent Data.”









THESES TOPICS



  • Innovation economics

  • Regional economics

  • Labor economics










Porträtfoto von Leonie Reher. Sie trägt eine hellblaue Bluse und einen dunkelblauen Blazer.


Contact


Leonie Reher, M.Sc.

Research Associate

Institute for Small Business Economics at the Georg‐August‐University Göttingen

Heinrich-Düker-Weg 6

37073 Göttingen



Tel. +49 (0)551/3934889

leonie.reher@uni-goettingen.de


Consultation hours: on appointment