Dr. Renke Schmacker
Research fields
CV
since 01 2024 Research Fellow of the Research Unit Market Behavior, WZB (Berlin Social Science Center)
since 11 2023 Post-doc at DIW Berlin
11 2023-12 2023 Research Fellow of the Research Unit Economics of Change, WZB (Berlin Social Science Center)
08 2020-10 2023 Post-doc (SNF Senior Researcher) at University of Lausanne (HEC)
07 2020 Dr. rer. pol. der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
10 2016-07 2020 Research Associate at DIW Berlin
10 2015-07 2020 Doctoral Student at DIW Graduate Center
05 2015 M.Sc. in Economics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
09 2012 B.Sc. in Economics, B.Sc. in Business Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Selected Publications
Earn More Tomorrow: Overconfident Income Expectations and Consumer Indebtedness
Antonia Grohmann, Lukas Menkhoff, Christoph Merkle, and Renke Schmacker
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming
Sin Taxes and Self Control
Renke Schmacker and Sinne Smed
AEJ: Economic Policy, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023, pp. 1-34
Protecting the Ego: Motivated Information Selection and Updating
Alessandro Castagnetti and Renke Schmacker
European Economic Review, Vol. 142, 2022, 104007
Social Image Concerns and Welfare Take-Up
Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König, and Renke Schmacker
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 168, 2018, pp. 174-192