Kiel Institute Researcher
Dr. Hendrik Mahlkow
Kiel Institute Researcher
Dr. Hendrik Mahlkow
Hendrik Mahlkow is a quantitative trade economist who is interested in environmental economics and geopolitics. Using large computational general equilibrium models, he calculates so-called counterfactual scenarios: "what-if" considerations that allow evaluating planned policy measures ex ante, or to review already implemented measures ex post.
Alongside academic research, Hendrik has contributed to numerous policy studies on different trade policy evaluations. He served as an external consultant for institutions such as the European Parliament, the European Commission, the African Development Bank, and the German Federal Ministry of Economics. His research on sanction policy, the economic impact of COVID-19, US tariffs of the second Trump Administration, and carbon boarder taxes, has received coverage in leading news outlets including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and ARD Brennpunkt.
Hendrik holds a PhD in Quantitative Economics from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. Most recently, he spent a research semester at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his PhD, he studied M.Sc. Agricultural Economics at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Topics
International TradeEmerging Markets & Developing CountriesClimateMain research interests
- Environmental policy instruments
- International climate policy
- International trade policy
- International development
Hendrik Mahlkow is a quantitative trade economist who is interested in environmental economics and geopolitics. Using large computational general equilibrium models, he calculates so-called counterfactual scenarios: "what-if" considerations that allow evaluating planned policy measures ex ante, or to review already implemented measures ex post.
Alongside academic research, Hendrik has contributed to numerous policy studies on different trade policy evaluations. He served as an external consultant for institutions such as the European Parliament, the European Commission, the African Development Bank, and the German Federal Ministry of Economics. His research on sanction policy, the economic impact of COVID-19, US tariffs of the second Trump Administration, and carbon boarder taxes, has received coverage in leading news outlets including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and ARD Brennpunkt.
Hendrik holds a PhD in Quantitative Economics from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. Most recently, he spent a research semester at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his PhD, he studied M.Sc. Agricultural Economics at Humboldt University in Berlin.
