Volker Nitsch

Professor of International Economics
Technische Universität Darmstadt

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Excellent piece in @bundesbank’s latest Monthly Report on how geopolitics is reshaping Germany’s external assets. (Yes, I’m biased.)

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https://t.co/yRQ3WS8MId

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Grateful for the warm hospitality, thoughtful feedback, and lively exchange. I really enjoyed the conversations, @CNB_cz!

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Rising geopolitics ≠ fragmented investment.

German foreign direct investment stayed global (2002-22), with no shift toward geopolitical allies once gravity factors are controlled for.

New paper w/ @sgoldbach in Economics Letters.
https://t.co/XvSyWkgAw6

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Huge thanks to Gabriel @Ahlfeldt for taking the initiative! The seminar offers an excellent research environment. Super inspiring and truly motivating, even on a Friday afternoon. 😃

[Gabriel M Ahlfeldt @Ahlfeldt]

What a fabulous 2025 https://t.co/ziW9wvXDlf seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld, all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! https://t.co/iWFsQTLUdX

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

RIP! 😔

I started reading Ifo Studien as an economist at Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG back in the mid-1990s.

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Welcome, Johanna.

[Gabriel M Ahlfeldt @Ahlfeldt]

Delighted to welcome @joarlinghaus as a co-organizer for the 2025 season of the @BSE_Berlin Quantitative Spatial Economics Research Seminar https://t.co/yM5tfyhaYn May it be as fun and interesting as in 2024! @RainaldBorck @thiloalbers @kallekappner @JanDavidBakker @nitschv

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

@Ch_Trebesch @VfS_econ Very much deserved. Congratulations, Christoph!

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

If you like #BTC, you should read this paper.

If you dislike #BTC, you should read this paper.

[Stefan Goldbach @sgoldbach]

Happy to announce that our paper "Cryptocurrencies and capital flows: evidence from El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin" (together with @nitschv) is forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters.

https://t.co/OYsrhN2Nyj

[Stefan Goldbach @sgoldbach]

Happy to announce that our paper "Retained Earnings, Foreign Portfolio Ownership, and the German Current Account: A Firm-Level Approach" (together with Philipp Harms, Axel Jochem, @nitschv and @AlfonsJ64) is forthcoming in German Economic Review.

https://t.co/7I7PL6M5Z5

[Felix Geiger @Flx_Geiger]

Where to look for the analysis of economic sanctions?

Here is a special issue in the Review of Inernational Economics.

It also covers a great article by my colleague @sgoldbach on the effect of financial sanctions on trade in goods and services.

https://t.co/b66umKRGW9

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Check out this paper if you are interested in the impact of financial sanctions on Russia, examining daily cross-border payment flows.

[Stefan Goldbach @sgoldbach]

Happy to announce that our paper "The effects of sanctions on Russian banks in TARGET2 transactions data" (together with Constantin Drott and @nitschv) is forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization.

https://t.co/AmB5ltbvMo

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

I greatly enjoyed this fantastic conference at a great location. A very warm thank you to the @kielinstitute for making this possible.

[Kiel Institut @kielinstitute]

We had a fantastic first day of our #geoeconomics conference - together with @cepr_org, hosted by @GermanyDiplo, and are very much looking forward to the second day (already underway). Thanks to all who contribute(d) on both days. 👉Livestream 👉https://t.co/7zO6VOx0nO

@GitaGopinath @adam_tooze @skalemliozcan @martinph01 @a_presbitero @hyeyoungyou @oertel_janka @NDeitelhoff @EnricoLetta @ErnestLiuEcon @MukhinDA @nityanayar @david_yang @GFelbermayr @sguriev @MESandbu @AntoineBouet1 @MeredithCrowle1 @GuntramWolff @mjmill611 @fuchs_andreas @v_smirnyagin @BenignoGianluca @JamilaNigmatul1 @evgenia_passari @mcrosign @kat_bergant @martinph01 @ilzetzki @ClaudiaSteinwen @alexeymakarin @xiangxding @fetzert @Marta_TroyaM, @JavierBianchi7, @LucaFornaro3 @chenzix @PaulBouscasse @Mporcellacchia @hhhelios @fabroner @Bjavorcik @nitschv @AnnaPestova3 @fbrantner @D_Schwarzer @MSchularick @Ch_Trebesch

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

@julianhinz @unibielefeld Excellent news! Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Julian!

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

@MamonovMikhail @CERGE_EI @TL_Beck_Firenze Congratulations, Mikhail! Well done! It has been a great pleasure reviewing your excellent work.

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Interesting read 👇🏻

[Dan Spokojny @DanSpoko]

After years of Covid, #UNGA is back as the largest diplomatic gathering in the world. But does face-to-face diplomacy really matter?

@fp21org's Sanjana Patel weighs in with a survey of the available research: https://t.co/gBYGVjmoo5

[CESifo @CESifoNetwork]

Smart or Smash? The Effect of Financial Sanctions on Trade in Goods and Services | @TBesedes, @sgoldbach, @nitschv
#EconTwitter
https://t.co/OHhKZ5kfGa

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Are sanctions smart, or is there collateral damage? Our new work on sanctions now forthcoming in the Review of International Economics.

[Stefan Goldbach @sgoldbach]

Happy to announce that our paper "Smart or smash? The effect of financial sanctions on trade in goods and services" (together with @TBesedes and
@nitschv) is forthcoming in Review of International Economics.

https://t.co/iUieoRorAS

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

@mcopelov It has been a great game to watch.

[Volker Nitsch @nitschv]

Thank you, @ZEIBonn. I am fully aware of the fact that there was tough competition.

[Alfons Weichenrieder @AlfonsJ64]

New WP on German current account: missing correction for retained corp earnings attributable to foreign portfolio investors overestimated surplus by some 5% in 2012-2020 period. @nitschv @SAFE_FRANKFURT @GFelbermayr https://t.co/NXx8emB1AL @MartinBraml https://t.co/Ud27BfhyA8