hi, i’m marten

edited photo

‡ photo and website are, by the way, inspired by the color scheme of the ever-elegant Financial Times

I’m a Master’s student of Economics at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris.

Topics I’m interested in:

(wealth) inequality
development econ
the history of economic thought

As a Carlo-Schmid-Fellow, I contributed to policy work at the United Nations. I’ve also worked at IWH and IAMO, and completed my undergrad in Halle.

Some of my projects ->

A Data Pipeline for the United Nations World Economic Forecasting Model

or: Accessing IMF, OECD, and World Bank Data with SDMX and R

Mar 21, 2026

Cementing the Divide? Housing and Wealth Inequality in Europe

How do asset prices shape the wealth distribution? My econometric bachelors thesis analysing the distributional effects of housing prices in the EU, using the ECB’s novel…

May 1, 2025

diatypst - easy slides in typst

a package for the LaTeX competitor typst to quickly create slides. Featuring a simple syntax, sensible styling and adjustable aestethics (⭐ +100 GitHub stars)

Jan 15, 2025

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Joan Robinson