Marvin Amann

Kiel, Germany · 54.32°N 10.13°E

Marvin Amann

PhD Candidate, Advanced Studies Program
Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Guest Researcher, ifo Institute Munich

01 About

I am a PhD candidate in the Advanced Studies Program at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, working on the long-run economic costs of war, Ukraine’s role in Europe’s security architecture, and geoeconomics more broadly. Before starting my PhD I completed dual bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Economics and a master’s in Economics at LMU Munich, with exchange semesters in Beijing and at UC Berkeley.

02 Current Work

Working Paper

The Allocative Cost of War

A View to a Kill…ing of Productivity

with Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC Berkeley) and Oleksandr Talavera (University of Birmingham)

We study allocative efficiency and total factor productivity losses among Ukrainian firms during Russia’s full-scale invasion, 2022–2024. Combining ORBIS firm-level data, the Hsieh–Klenow misallocation framework, and the geocoded VIINA conflict dataset, we quantify how the war has reshaped the productive fabric of the Ukrainian economy.

JEL  F51 · O47 · O52 · D24 · D61 · H56

03 Policy Writing

04 Profiles

Academic profiles and identifiers.

05 Contact

Marvin Amann
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Düsternbrooker Weg 148
24105 Kiel, Germany
amann@marvinamann.eu