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 Rehe. Sie trägt eine hellblaue Bluse und einen dunkelblauen Blazer.



Kontakt



Leonie Reher, M.Sc.




leonie.reher@uni-goettingen.de


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