Filip Sangild Beck
PhD candidate in economics
Copenhagen Business School
PhD candidate in economics
Copenhagen Business School
I am a PhD candidate in economics at Copenhagen Business School working at the intersection of public economics and spatial economics. I study how the distribution of people, prices, activity, and welfare across space is shaped by government policy. Combining administrative micro-data with quasi-experimental evidence and quantitative models, I evaluate policy counterfactuals.Â
My educational background spans physics, international business, and the humanities, and I found my academic home in economics as a graduate student. I am interested in both positive and normative aspects of economics, and my work aims to inform real-world policy as much as it aims to describe and quantify economic mechanisms.
I spent the spring and summer of 2026 at the Chair of Econometrics at Humboldt University of Berlin, and I expect to be on the academic job market in the fall of 2027.
Research interests
Spatial economics:
Economic geography
Urban economics
Spatial sorting
Spatial inequality
Public economics:
Local Public finance
Political economy
Fiscal federalism
Fiscal equalization