Matthias Hoelzlein is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Notre Dame. He works on topics in international trade, urban economics and economic geography. His research agenda is centered on how heterogeneous agents’ exposure to local markets determines welfare and distributional effects of shocks such as policy interventions.
Before joining Notre Dame in 2020 Matthias received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's degree (German equivalent) in Business and Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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Scaling up agricultural policy interventions: Evidence from Uganda
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