Marco Caliendo is Professor of Empirical Economics and Speaker of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) at the University of Potsdam, and faculty member of the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE).

He is an applied microeconometrician and his current research interests include the evaluation of labor market policy, human capital investments, job search and unemployment dynamics, and the influence of personality traits on economic outcomes.

His work has been published in journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Research Policy, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Marco joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in August 2025. He is also affiliated wit IZA Bonn, DIW Berlin and IAB Nuremberg.