Julian Hinz

Dr. Julian Hinz is a Research Fellow at Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Mr. Hinz is an empirical economist working on topics in international trade, migration, and applied econometrics.
He is head of the Kiel Institute's Trade Policy Task Force and Assistant Professor for International Economics at Bielefeld University.
He studies international trade, particularly its political economy and connection with foreign policy, the spatial dimension of international trade, and migration, often in the context of the so-called gravity equation.
His work is characterized by policy-relevant research questions that use state-of-the-art quantitative methods, often involving big data and devising and implementing econometric techniques to handle such data types.
Previously, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) of the University of Düsseldorf, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and Postdoc Fellow at the Kiel Centre for Globalization.
In 2018–2019 he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
He holds a Ph.D.
in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.s