PD Dr. Felix Roth

Since 2021, Felix Roth is a Senior Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg. There he successfully completed his habilitation in economics on the topic of “Intangible Capital and Labour Productivity Growth and Determinants of Public Support for the Euro“ in June 2020. His doctoral thesis in economics was jointly supervised by the London School of Economics and the University of Göttingen where he earned his PhD in Economics in 2007. In his academic research, PD Dr. Roth has concentrated on the relationship between intangible capital and productivity growth, interpersonal trust and economic growth, as well as on the determinants of public support for the euro. He has published his research results in (the) leading international journals in his field, such as Journal of Common Market Studies,  

Industry and InnovationReview of Income and Wealth and Kyklos, as monographs with renowned academic publishing houses such as Springer,  in a wide selection of academic Scopus articles in his research field and as contributions to a large variety of edited volumes in renowned academic publishing houses such as Routledge and Edward Elgar. PD Dr. Roth has spent over a decade working on EU issues as an expert for DG RTD and JRC, as DG ECFIN Research Fellow in 2014-15, and as a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels from 2007-2014. 

What's New

April 2023: Invitation to Revise and Resubmit  

Roth, F. et al. (2023). COVID-19 and Public Support for the Euro, Invitation to Revise and Resubmit.

Link to the working paper version





Discussant at the Banque de France research seminar

Discussion of the working paper entitled  

“ Shades of Euroscepticism at the regional level: Root causes and citizens’ expectations ” 

 by Jean-Baptiste Gosse and Sandra Debut at the research seminar of the Banque de France

Link to Webpage





 Article Publication in Industry and Innovation

Roth, F. et al. (2023). The Role of Intangibles in Firm-Level Productivity – Evidence from Germany, Industry and Innovation 30(2): 263-285.

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PD Dr. Felix Roth

University of Hamburg Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences 

Von-Melle-Park 5, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany 

Tel: +49 (0) 40 42838-7962 

GSM: +49 (0) 176 2341-7577 

Fax: +49 (0) 40 42838-8259  

E-Mail: [email protected]