Graduate Center of DIW Berlin
Students2012
- Benjamin Beckers Benjamin Beckers Prior to joining the DIW Berlin Graduate Center in 2012, Benjamin Beckers obtained his Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics from Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU) Kiel. In his master’s thesis, he explored the use of copula distributions in modeling the dependence structure in GARCH model residuals for stock market data. He completed his Bachelor studies in 2010, holding a degree in Economics from the European-University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Also, he spent part of his studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Besides his studies, Benjamin worked as a research assistant at CAU Kiel and at the Ecologic Institute, Berlin. Currently, his main research interest lies on the interrelation between financial market stability and economic growth.
- Max Gößler Max Gößler Max Gössler is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center. He studied economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His diploma thesis empirically studied the real estate bubble in the Spanish housing market. He worked as research associate from 2010 until 2012 at the DIW Berlin analyzing the economic impacts of maritime piracy and terrorism.
- Michael Hachula Michael Hachula Before he joined the Graduate Center in 2012, Michael studied economics at Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on econometrics and macroeconomics. In his Master's thesis, he empirically analyzed inflation dynamics using a nonlinear modeling approach. During his studies he worked in the administration of a hospital and as a student research and teaching assistant at the chair of econometrics, and interned at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK).
- Alexander Konon Alexander Konon He joined the DIW graduate center in October 2012. He studied international economics at the University of Potsdam – working as a teaching assistant alongside his studies. Alexander concentrated his attention on trade theory, in particular trade under imperfect competition and effects of financial crises on trade, and general-equilibrium migration theory. In his master thesis, Alexander analyzed the impact of different types of mobility (migration, commuting, and intermediate forms) on agglomeration patterns of households and firms, inside the framework of geographical economics.
- Helene Naegele Helene Naegele Before joining the DIW Graduate Center, Helena worked for a randomized field experiment of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL Europe) and Crest Paris, aiming at improving counselling of apprentices in France. She is interested in the use of microeconomics and econometrics for policy evaluation (especially social and environmental policy), for this purpose she is particularly interested in experiments and behavioural economics. Helena holds a master’s degree in economics and public policy from Sciences Po, ENSAE and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. In her master’s thesis she analyzed the new car market’s response to changes in fuel prices, in order to predict the impact of a planned fuel tax. Helena additionally holds an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Economics and Psychology from the Universities Sorbonne and Paris Descartes. In her (second) master thesis she analyzed the link between personality structure and dropout rates in French apprenticeship programmes. Previously, she followed the interdisciplinary undergraduate course of Sciences Po Nancy in political sciences, economics, law and history and studied economics at the University of Sankt Gallen (HSG). Among other practical experiences, she has worked for the French Ministry of Economics, the German Embassy in London and IBM Global Business Consulting.
- Amelie Schiprowski Amelie Schiprowski Amelie Schiprowski joined the Graduate Center in 2012, after having obtained her Master’s degree in „Economics and Public Policy“ (Sciences Po, École Polytechnique, École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique). She holds a Bachelor in social sciences from Sciences Po Paris and spent an exchange year at the University of Pennsylvania. Her Master thesis empirically analyzed how offshoring impacts the wages of different occupational groups in French manufacturing firms.
- Caroline Stiel Caroline Stiel She joined the Graduate Center in 2012. She holds a master's degree in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin. In 2009, she obtained a double diploma in European Administration and Economic Policy from the University of Münster and Sciences Po Lille, France. Her diploma thesis compared the regulatory measures accompanying the liberalization of the electricity markets in France and Germany. In her Master thesis, she investigated the effects of asymmetric information on environmental incentive regulation, applying methods of mechanism design. She is mostly interested in the future of the European electricity market and has worked as a student assistant at DIW Berlin for the StoRES project.
- Songül Tolan Songül Tolan Songül Tolan joined the Graduate Center in October 2011. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Management and Economics from Ruhr-University Bochum and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Warwick. With a publication based on her Bachelor’s thesis which dealt with the effect of household level income shocks on child-health in Mexico, she could collect experience in the presentation of empirical work at conferences. In her Master’s dissertation she analyzed the dynamic relationship between poor mental health and non-employment in the UK using a dynamic simultaneous equation model. Besides this, she has worked as a student assistant at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy in Bochum.
- Vaishali Zambre Vaishali Zambre Since October 2012 Vaishali Zambre is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. She studied Economics with a special reference to social science at the University of Potsdam (diploma) and earned an additional Master degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she focused on econometrics. In her diploma thesis she analyzed the employment effects of trade in the Indian manufacturing sector. During her studies she worked as a student assistant in one of the research departments of the DIW and did internships the Development Bank of the KfW and the IPC (Internationale Projekt Consult).
2011
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Sarah Dahmann Sarah Dahmann
Before joining the Graduate Center in October 2011, Sarah Dahmann studied Econometrics and Operations Research in Maastricht (the Netherlands) and Singapore. She obtained her master's degree with a specialization in Econometrics in 2011 from Maastricht University. In her master thesis she examined unemployment persistence in Germany, with a particular focus on the role of unobserved heterogeneity in the context of state and duration dependence. During her studies she interned at an energy trading company and conducted a research project on international trade at ING in Singapore.
- Patricia Gallego Granados Patricia Gallego Granados Patricia joined the Graduate Center in October 2011. She holds a degree in economics from Universität Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. In her Master Thesis, she analyzed the changes in the tax benefit systems of EU countries resulting from the recent economic and financial crisis. During her studies, she has interned in the European Institute of Public Administration and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Verena Grass Verena Grass Verena Grass joined the Graduate Center in October 2011. Having studied economical mathematics in Berlin and Århus and Political Science in Hagen, she holds a degree (Diplom-Wirtschaftsmathematikerin) from the Technical University Berlin and a certificate in Peace and Conflict studies. Before joining the DIW she gained working experience both in the private and public sectors, she was working at the consulting company PwC in Risk management, Financial Services and Public sector consulting and completed an internship at the German Bundestag. Throughout her studies Verena focused on modelling with differential equations and developed a keen interest in the link between financial markets and the macroeconomics.
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Adrian Hille Adrian Hille
Before joining the Graduate Center in 2011, Adrian obtained his Master's degree in "Economics and Public Policy" from Sciences Po Paris, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique. In 2009, he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from Sciences Po Paris, after having studied at Science Po's French-German undergraduate campus in Nancy as well as at McGill University Montreal. Adrian developed his interest in empirical research in 2010, when he analyzed the impact of participating at "Orchetre à l'Ecole", a project allowing 11-13-year old students from disadvantaged social backgrounds in France to learn an instrument and play in an orchestra for three years. In his master thesis, Adrian examined the gender gap in mathematics in French primary school.
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Daniel Huppmann Daniel Huppmann
Daniel studied Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology. Since 2008 he worked as a research assistant at DIW Berlin, focusing on fossil resource markets and energy modelling. His diploma thesis investigated strategic investment incentives in crude oil production capacity of Saudi Arabia and Russia under economic uncertainty and political risk of climate change mitigation policies. His professional experience includes internships in Washington, D.C., Paris, and Central Asia.
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Christian Krekel Christian Krekel
Before joining the Graduate Center, Christian completed the Master of Science in Economic History at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Master of Science in Economics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). In his dissertations, he investigated the determinants and impacts of naturalisation in various national contexts, both historically and contemporaneously.
Christian completed internships at the International Monetary Fund, in the division responsible for fiscal policy and surveillance, as well as at the German Foreign Office and at the German Ministry of Finance, respectively in the divisions responsible for the European Monetary Union. Previous to that, he completed various internships in private sector consulting, amongst others at Arthur D. Little and at IBM.
His research interests include labour economics in general and immigration, integration, and education in particular, both theoretically and empirically. Recently, he has become interested in the economics of happiness, too, especially in the intangible effects of major sporting events.
Beyond that, he is interested in New Keynesian Macroeconomics.
- Friederike Lenel Friederike Lenel Friederike holds a degree in Economics from the University of Freiburg and an MBA from the Neeley School of Business, Texas. Before joining the Graduate Center in 2011, she worked with PlaNet Finance, an NGO advising microfinance institutions. In her diploma thesis, she empirically examined risk management mechanisms adopted during the economic crisis in Indonesia and the role of access to credit. At the University of Freiburg Friederike worked as student research assistant and as teaching assistant for the Department of Applied Econometrics. She interned at the KfW Development Bank and worked on different consulting projects in the U.S. and in Germany. Her current research interest lies in development economics, in particular individual behavior under economic uncertainty.
- Michael Neumann Michael Neumann Before he joined the Graduate Center in 2011, Michael worked as a research associate at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) in Tübingen in a project evaluating the introduction of sectoral minimum wages in Germany. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Tübingen and spent an academic year at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. During his studies, Michael focused on quantitative methods of economic science and interned at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. In his diploma thesis he empirically analyzed the impact of different strategies of public placement officers on the allocation of active labor market programs. He is amongst others interested in empirically analyzing social policy and labor market issues.
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Maximilian Podstawski Maximilian Podstawski
He joined the Graduate Center in October 2011. Max holds advanced degrees from the University of Potsdam (Diplom Volkswirt) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Master of Arts Economics), where he concentrated on macroeconomics and econometrics. In his diploma thesis he analyzed root causes of the diverging current accounts in the euro area. During his studies Max gained professional experience working within a research group of Daimler AG, the department of macro analysis and forecasting of DIW Berlin, the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the German Bundestag, the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the International Monetary Fund.
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Philipp M. Richter Philipp M. Richter
Before he joined the Graduate Center in 2011, Philipp studied International Economics in Tübingen and Lyon as well as Environmental Economics at the University of Hohenheim. He holds an advanced degree in economics (Diplom-Volkswirt). In his diploma thesis, Philipp analyzed the effect of trade liberalization on environmental quality in the context of recent trade modeling with heterogeneous firms. His current research interest lies in the field of trade and environment, climate change and environmental policies.
- Stefan Seifert Stefan Seifert Stefan Seifert joined the Graduate Center in October 2011. He studies Economics in Dresden and Rennes and obtained an advanced degree in economics (Dipl.-Volkswirt) in 2010 from TU Dresden. During his studies he focused on public finance, public sector management and efficiency analysis. In his diploma thesis he analysed determinants of spending efficiency of French local governments. Furthermore, he gained experience as student research assistant at the Institute of Public Finance, the Chair of Energy Economics and Public Sector Management and at DIW Berlin.
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Andreas Thiemann Andreas Thiemann
Before he joined the Graduate Center in 2011, Andreas obtained a Master’s degree in International Economics and Economic Policy from the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main. In his Master thesis he analyzed the causal effect of the German parental leave reform 2007 on the labor supply of fathers. Previously he worked at the DIW Berlin as a student assistant.
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Christian Zankiewicz Christian Zankiewicz
He joined the Graduate Center in October 2011. During his studies, Christian attended the Free University Berlin, Saint Mary’s University (Canada), and Humboldt University. He holds two advanced degrees, a Diploma in Economics from the Free University Berlin and a Master’s degree in Statistics awarded from Humboldt University. In his diploma thesis, he developed an econometric multilevel model that explains the simultaneous impact of micro and macroeconomic factors on the risk of criminal victimization in various European countries. His master’s thesis addressed the statistical problems of measuring attitudes towards corruption by means of a Bayesian approach to item response modeling.
Along with his studies, Christian worked as a research assistant at the Free University Berlin, and gained professional experience at the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
- Alexander Zerrahn Alexander Zerrahn Alexander joined the Graduate Center in 2011 after having obtained a degree in economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) from the University of Tübingen. During his studies, he developed a strong interest in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on energy and the environment. Alexander spent one academic year at the University of Copenhagen where he acquainted himself with employing experimental techniques in economics. In his diploma thesis, he analysed the competition on the wholesale electricity market. He interned in the energy sector and worked as a teaching assistant throughout his studies.
2010
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Alexandra Avdeenko Alexandra Avdeenko
She joined the Graduate Center in September 2010. Alexandra was born in Riga, Latvia.
She has got a Master degree in International Political Economy from University of Warwick from 2008 to 2009. She studied political science (major) and economics (minor) at University of Mannheim from 2005 to 2008.
Alexandra has working experience at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the German Council on Foreign Relations, the German Institute for Economic Research and the World Bank.
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Veronika Bertram-Hümmer Veronika Bertram-Hümmer
Having studied International Economics with Chinese Studies at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and the University of Sydney, Veronika holds an advanced degree in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirtin). During her studies, she focused on International Economics and Econometrics and gained professional experience among others at the German Embassy in Beijing and with GIZ in Tianjin, China. Before joining the Graduate Center in September 2010, Veronika worked with the World Bank conducting Poverty and Social Impact Analysis. During the Graduate Center she worked with Transparency International, Berlin and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC.
Fields of interest: Development Economics, Climate Change Adaption, Migration
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Marlene Karl Marlene Karl
She joined the Graduate Center in September 2010. Marlene studied International Economics in Tübingen and Poitiers. In 2010, she obtained an advanced degree in economics (Diplom-Volkswirtin) from the University Tübingen. In her diploma thesis, Marlene analyzed the influence of monetary policy on bank risk taking in the US banking system. During her studies, she interned at the Deutsche Börse and in the banking supervision department of Deutsche Bundesbank.
Fields of Interest: International financial stability, banking risk
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Holger Lüthen Holger Lüthen
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2010 and studied in Berlin and Limerick. He obtained a diploma in economics in 2010 from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He wrote his thesis about income inequality over the life cycle.
Fields of interest: Income inequality, public economics, applied econometrics.
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Kathleen Ngangoué Kathleen Ngangoué
She was born in Brazzaville, Congo. Kathleen holds a degree in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirtin) from the Technical University Berlin Her diploma thesis was titled: “The Impact of House Price Uncertainty on the Real Estate Market: Empirical Evidence of Real Options in Berlin.” Before joining the Graduate Center, she gained teaching experience both in the private and public sectors, and participated in the projects “Innovation Indicator Germany 2008” and “Innovation Indicator Germany 2009”, DIW Berlin. During the Graduate Center she worked for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin and for the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.
Fields of interest: behavioral economics, econometrics, real estate markets
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Doreen Triebe Doreen Triebe
She joined the graduate Center in September 2010. Doreen holds advanced degrees from the University of Potsdam (Diplom Volkswirtin) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Master of Arts Economics). In her diploma thesis she analysed the innovation ability of the German Federal States.
Fields of interest: Innovation Economics, International Economics and Applied Econometrics
2009
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Julian Baumann Julian Baumann
Julian joined the Graduate Center in September 2009. He studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). Apart from his work as a teaching and research assistant, Julian gained work experience both in the private and public sector.
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Elisabeth Bügelmayer Elisabeth Bügelmayer
She joined the Graduate Center in September 2009. She studied Economics in Vienna, Paris and Berlin and obtained her master´s degree in 2009. In her master thesis she analyzed the impact of mother´s personality and non-cognitive skills in the child´s skill formation process. From 2007 to 2009 she worked as a research assistant at the SOEP group.
Fields of interest: applied panel analyses and interdisciplinary research combining economics, psychology and the neurosciences.
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Damir Esenaliev Damir Esenaliev
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2009 as a PhD student. He joined the International Economics Department at DIW Berlin in September 2010, and since then was a part of the project “Economic Transformation, Household Behaviour and Economic Well-Being in Central Asia: The Case of Kyrgyzstan”. He graduated from the Kyrgyz National State University in 1996 with Diploma in Applied Mathematics and obtained Master’s degree in Development Economics at the Williams College (USA) in 2003. He worked in the Economic Department of the National (Central) Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic in 1996-2004, on areas related to balance of payments compilation and analysis. In 2004-2009 he worked as an economist in the World Bank office in the Kyrgyz Republic and was involved in poverty and macroeconomic analysis and operational activities.
Fields of Interest: Development economics, Poverty, Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility.
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Christoph Große Steffen Christoph Große Steffen
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2009. He holds advanced degrees from the Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster (Diplom-Volkswirt) and Panthéon-Assas Paris II University (Maîtres de Sciences Economiques). Christoph majored in international economics and international management and gained working experience in the global trade finance sector (KfW IPEX-Bank and German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, department “Export Finance and Insurance”). In his diploma thesis he conducted a case-based analysis of local currency loans in international project financings. During the Graduate Center program, he worked for the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin and the International Monetary Fund.
Fields of interest: Macroeconomics
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Dr. Clemens Haftendorn
Cohort: GC2009
Research Interests: Energy and Resources Economics, International Energy and Resources Markets, Applied Numerical Economic Modeling
Current Employer: Wood Mackenzie
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen, Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
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Sindu Workneh Kebede Sindu Workneh Kebede
She joined the Graduate Center in September, 2009. Sindu worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Addis Ababa for four years and half as a research assistant. She holds Masters Degree in Economic Policy Analysis from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. In her Master’s Thesis, Sindu analyzed the link between soil conservation and poverty in rural households of Ethiopia.
Fields of interest: Development economics, Poverty Analysis.
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Daniel Kemptner Daniel Kemptner
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2009 after having studied economics at the University of Mannheim and at the University of Toronto. In 2009, he graduated from the University of Mannheim as Diplom-Volkswirt. In his diploma thesis, he investigated the causal relationship between education and health by considering a natural experiment in West Germany using Microcensus data. During his studies, he worked at MEA (Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging) as a research assistant.
Fields of interest: Applied Econometrics, Empirical Health and Labor Economics
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Dr. Antje Kröger
Cohort: GC2009
Research Interests: Development Economics, Survey and Evaluation Methodology, Agricultural Economics, Climate Policy
Current Employer: German Evaluation Institute (DEval), Bonn
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück, Prof. Dr. Kathryn Anderson
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Jan Marcus Jan Marcus
My interest lies in identifying causal effects in situations when random experiments are not an option due to ethical, financial and political reasons. My cumulative PhD thesis (submitted in April 2013) investigates the causal effect of different factors (job loss, partner’s unemployment, maternal education, an alcohol control policy) on health.
Before I joined DIW Berlin in September 2009, I studied Political and Administrative Science (Bachelor) as well as Economics (Master) in Konstanz and Istanbul. My work is accepted for publication in various international peer-reviewed journals (like the Journal of Health Economics, Economica and the Review of Economics of the Household) and was awarded with the ALLBUS Young Scholar Award in 2010 and a Best Paper Price at the Warsaw International Economic Meeting in 2012.
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Florian Mölders Florian Mölders
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2009. Florian studied Economics at the University of Bonn and the University of Florida (USA) from 2002 to 2008. He joined the Department of Innovation, Manufacturing and Service at DIW Berlin in September 2010.
Fields of Interest: international trade, foreign direct investment and economic development.
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Sören Radde Sören Radde
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2009. After undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth and University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, he received graduate training in Economics at the University of Cambridge (MPhil in Economics). Throughout his studies Sören focused on macroeconomic modeling and developed a keen interest in the link between financial markets and the macroeconomy. His master thesis dealt with the long-term impact of ownership structures in the banking sector on economic development. Sören gained work experience both in the private (RWE Power AG, McKinsey & Company) and public sector (European Commission, DG ECFIN; German Bundestag; IMF).
Fields of interest: Macroeconomics, Financial Markets, Development Economics
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Nils Saniter Nils Saniter
Nils Saniter is currently a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and at the Free University Berlin. He studied both economics as well as peace and conflict studies in Hamburg, Marburg, and Buenos Aires, earning his Diplom-Volkswirt from Marburg University in 2008. His diploma thesis empirically studied the effect of international trade on the wage dispersion in Germany. After graduating he worked as a research assistant at Marburg University in the ECAR project, helping to establish a Master’s program in economics with the University of Damascus, Syria. In 2009, he joined the DIW Berlin.
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Tobias Schmidt Tobias Schmidt
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2009. Tobias studied Infonomics and Economic and Financial Research at Maastricht University (the Netherlands) and at UCLA. For several years he worked as a teaching and research assistant and has interned at the ZEW, the German Council of Economic Experts and the German Bundestag.
Fields of Interest: choice theory, applied microeconomics and behavioral economics.
- Anne Schopp Anne Schopp Anne Schopp works as research associate at the department of climate policy and is currently pursuing her doctorate from the DIW Graduate Center. Anne received a Master's in International Economics from the University of Tübingen with a focus on microeconomics and econometrics. In addition to her work experience in Germany with the Federal Environment Ministry and the German Development Bank, she has international work experience in the US and India.
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Andreas Schröder
Andreas joined the Graduate Center in September 2009. He graduated with a Master degree in Economics from Free University of Amsterdam and holds a Bachelor degree in Economics and Geography. Upon graduation in 2008, Andreas gained work experience at the German Federal Foreign Office and the European Commission where he dealt with topics in transportation and environment. In his doctoral thesis, Andreas conducts model-based analysis of power markets.
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Dr. Johanna StorckDr. Johanna Storck
Current Employer: DIW Berlin, Education Policy Department
Fields of interest: education economics, labor economicsPublications
- The Treatment Effect of Attending a High-Quality School and the Influence of Unobservables, DIW (with Ronny Freier), DIW Discussion Papers 1256 (2012).
- Risks and Returns to Educational Fields: A Financial Asset Approach to Vocational and Academic Education (mit Daniela Glocker), DIW Discussion Papers 1240 (2012).
- Uni, Fachhochschule oder Ausbildung - welche Fächer bringen die höchsten Löhne? (mit Daniela Glocker), Wochenbericht des DIW Berlin 13/2012, S. 3-8.
- Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (mit Nadja Dwenger und Katharina Wrohlich), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 31/1 (2012), überarbeitete Version des DIW Discussion Papers 926.
- Studiengebühren erhöhen die Mobilität von Studiengebühren kaum (mit Nadja Dwenger und Katharina Wrohlich), Wochenbericht des DIW Berlin 43/2009, S. 744-747
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Paul Viefers Paul Viefers
He joined the Graduate Center in 2009. He holds a higher degree from the University of Bonn (Dipl.-Volksw.). During his graduate studies he focused on Quantitative Methods (Econometrics & Statistics). He spent a year abroad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he majored in Economics and Statistics. The title of his diploma thesis was "On liquidity interactions during the 2007/2008 Global Financial Crisis - evidence from Multivariate GARCH models" (Advisor: JProf. Dr. Pigorsch).
Research interests: Economics
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Lilo Wagner Lilo Wagner
She joined the Graduate Center in September 2009. She studied Economics and Business in Paris, London and Berlin. In her master thesis, she analyzed the impact of the tariff structure on the market participants’ pricing and quantity setting behaviour in the German press distribution system.
Fields of Interests: industrial organization, competition policy and microeconomics.
- Juliana Werneburg Juliana Werneburg She joined the graduate school in September 2009. She started her studies in sociology at Bamberg’s Otto Friedrich University. There, she worked as a student assistant at the global life project co-oridnated by Prof. Blossfeld. After a summer internship at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, she joined the University of Bielefeld where she commenced her studies, was involved in several research projects and worked for a polling institute. In her diploma thesis she analyzed the division of labor within couples, using SOEP data. The BEATA project co-ordinated by Prof. Diewald and funded by the German Research Foundation enabled her to gain new data, which will complement the data base of her PhD thesis on the effects of employment relationships on couples.
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Michael Zschille Michael Zschille
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2009 and holds an advanced degree from Dresden University of Technology (Diplom Kaufmann). During his studies he focused on efficiency analysis and regulation management as well as energy and environmental economics. He interned at the Hessian Ministry for Economics, Transport, Urban and Regional Development. During the Graduate Center program he worked for the Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin. Currently, he focuses on the empirical analysis of network industries.
Fields of interest: efficiency analysis, regulation management, industrial organization, economic policy.
2008
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Franziska Bremus Franziska Bremus
She joined the Graduate Center in September 2008. She received a master’s degree from the University of Québec at Montréal in 2006 and graduated from the University of Tübingen as Diplom-Volkswirtin in 2008. In her diploma thesis, she analyzed the implications of trade and offshoring for the comovement of international business cycles using a general equilibrium model. Before joining the Graduate Center, she interned at the research division of the Deutsche Bundesbank, where she worked on extending the Bundesbank DSGE-model.
Fields of interest: international macroeconomics, trade, applied econometrics.
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Dr. Felix GrobaDr. Felix Groba
He joined the Graduate Center in September 2008. He studied in Dresden, St.Petersburg and New York and holds a Bachelor in International Relations. He obtained his Master of Public Policy in 2008 from the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. Felix wrote his thesis for the German Federal Ministry of Environment focusing on the added value and potential design of a new international body for the promotion of renewable energies.
Field of interest: environmental and resource economics and policy, renewable energies, international trade.
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Hendrik Hagedorn Hendrik Hagedorn
He joined the Graduate Center in 2008. He studied physics in Munich and Montpellier and economics in Maastricht (Diplom-Physiker und Master of Economic and Financial Research (MPhil)). Hendrik majored in the economics of growth and technical change. His master thesis dealt with the effect of regulation on entrepreneurship.
Fields of interest: Financial and international economics.
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Andreas Harasser Andreas Harasser
He joined the Graduatecenter in September 2008. He holds one diploma in Economics as well as one in International Economics and Management Sciences both from the University of Innsbruck. In his diploma thesis he dealt with a reputation problem in a market for credence goods.
Fields of interest: game theory and microtheory.
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Dr. Tony Muhumuza
Cohort 2008
Research Interests: Development Economics, Child labour, Poverty Analysis , Economics of Conflict
Current Employer: Research Fellow at Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE), Uganda
Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück
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Beatrice Pagel
She joined the Graduate Center in September 2008. She received her Bachelor degree in European Studies and Master in International Economic Studies from Maastricht University. In her thesis she analyzed the impact of auction formats on bidding behaviour and entrant survival in public procurement auctions. During the Graduate Center programme, she worked as an intern at the competition department of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC.
Fields of interest: microeconomics, industrial organization, competition policy.
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Katharina Pijnenburg Katharina Pijnenburg
She joined the Graduate Center in September 2008. She holds advanced degrees from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt (Diplom Volkswirtin) and the University Paris Dauphine (Maîtrise d’Economie Appliquée). During her studies she focused on monetary policy and econometric methods and interned among others at the Research Center of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Her diploma thesis was titled “The Influence of Globalization on Inflation – A Factor- Augmented Phillips Curve Approach”. During the Graduate Center program she worked for the Ministry of Finance in Berlin and the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
Fields of interest: econometrics, economic policy, monetary policy.
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Nina Wald Nina Wald
She joined the Graduate Center in September 2008. She received her Diploma in International Economics at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen in 2008. She spent one year as an exchange student at the Ponitificia Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile. During her studies she focused on international economics, econometrics and politics of Latin America. In her diploma thesis "Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from OECD Countries" she analyzed the impact of increased outward FDI on the home country´s capital stock for a panel of 13 OECD countries.
Fields of interest: Development economics, economics of conflict, international economics.
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Michael Weinhardt Michael Weinhardt
He studied Sociology in Hamburg (HWP) and London (LSE). He also worked for the longitudinal studies group at the National Centre for Social Research (London) before he became a graduate student at DIW in September 2008. In his Master thesis he investigated the link between social class and the onset of mental illness using longitudinal data on the British population. At present he works in a project surveying employers in Germany in ooperation with the Bielefeld University and sponsored by the Leibniz Gemeinschaft.
Fields of interest: cultural sociology, youth sociology, sociology of the life course and panel data analysis.
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Dr. Aleksandar ZaklanDr. Aleksandar Zaklan
Cohort: GC2008
Research Interests: Resource and Climate Economics, International Economics, Applied Econometrics
Current Employer: European University Institute, Florence/Italy and DIW Berlin, Dept. of Energy, Transportation, Environment
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen, Prof. Dr. Axel Werwatz
2007
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Dr. Nataliya Barasinska
Cohort: GC2007
Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Household Finance, Credit Risk, Real Estate Markets
Current Employer: Deutsche Bundesbank
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Stephan
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Dr. Ludwig Ensthaler
Cohort: GC2007
Research Interests: Mechanism Design, Market Design, Applied Mathematics, Experimental Economics, Economics of Intangibles and Electronic Goods
Current Employer: University College London
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Elmar Wolfstetter, Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D.
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Dr. Olga Nottmeyer
She is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Center of the DIW Berlin since September 2007. She holds a Bachelor in Mathematics and a master in Economics both from the Free University Berlin. Her bachelor thesis is entitled "music of markow chains" and analyzes the behaviour of markow chains invented by the Berlin composer Orm Finnendahl. In her diploma thesis she evaluated economic determinants on the decision for interethnic marriages of male migrants in Germany using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP) of the DIW and micro econometric methods.
Fields of interest: migration, econometrics, labor economics.
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Dr. Frauke H. PeterDr. Frauke H. Peter
2002-2005 Bachelor in International Economics at American University of Paris, France
2005-2006 Master of Science in Economics at Royal Holloway University of London, UK
since 2007 PhD candidate at DIW Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research
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Dr. Pia Rattenhuber
Cohort: GC2007
Research Interests: Public Economics, Labor Economics
Current Employer: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Viktor Steiner , Prof. Dr. Bernhard Boockmann
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Dr. Geza Sapi
Research Fields: Theoretical Industrial Organization
Current Employer: EU Commission, Economic Analyst (DG ECFIN B2, Product Market Reforms)
First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wey (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)
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Dr. Wolf-Peter SchillDr. Wolf-Peter Schill
- 2000-2007: Studies of Environmental Technology, TU Berlin and Macquarie University Sydney
- July 2007: Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) Environmental Technology, Erwin-Stephan-Award
- 2007-2011: DIW Berlin Graduate Center
- July 2011: Dissertation at TU Berlin (Dr. oec.)
- Since September 2008: Department of Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Isabel Teichmann Isabel Teichmann
Since 08/2008: Doctoral Student at Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
Dissertation Topic: "Trade Liberalization in Agriculture and its Effects on Poverty in Developing Countries"
Advisers: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Harald von Witzke
Since 09/2007: Participation in the Graduate Center of DIW Berlin
10/2002 - 07/2007: Studies of Economics (Diploma) at Humboldt University Berlin and Stockholms Universitet, Sweden
2006
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Dr. Eva M. Berger
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Behavioral Economics
Current Employer: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß, Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb
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Dr. Frauke G. Braun
She has joined the DIW Graduate Center in September 2006. During the Graduate Center she worked as an intern with the Worldbank and the BDI, Berlin. Previously, she studied economics at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Lund, Sweden.
She was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, Electricity Policy Research Group (EPRG) from December 2009 to February 2010.
She has presented her work at various international conferences, among them the EEA, IAEE European Conference and WCERE/EAERE.
Fields of interest: green innovation / industrial economics, and empirical methods.
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Dr. Astrid CullmannDr. Astrid Cullmann
- Since 2009 senior researcher in the Dept. Innovation, Industry and Services
- 2009 Dr. rer. oec., Technische Universität Berlin (summa cum laude)
- 2006 Doctoral Student (Graduate Center, DIW Berlin)
- 2006 Dipl.-Volkswirtin, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2003/2004 Graduate Studies of Economics at University Carlos III in Madrid, Spain
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Dr. Burcu Erdogan
She is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. She received her degree in Master of Science Program in Economics and Management Science in Humboldt University of Berlin in April 2006. She graduated from the Industrial Engineering department of Middle East Technical University in June 2003 and attended in the Psychology minor program in Middle East Technical University. She worked as a Student Research Assistant at the Institute of Economic Policy II from April 2004 until April 2006. Her master thesis was titeled “How different are Constant Interest Rate Inflation Forecasts from Variable Interest Rate Inflation Forecasts?”
Fields of interest: macroeconomics, econometrics, banking and finance.
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Dr. Johannes GeyerDr. Johannes Geyer
Education:
School of Business and Economics (Humboldt and Free University Berlin) from 2002 until 2006. Degree: Diploma in economics. Doctoral degree at FU Berlin (magna cum laude). Title of the thesis: Empirical Studies on Economic Risks, Demographic Change,
and Public Policy. Supervisors: Prof. Viktor Steiner and Prof. Carsten Schröder.Professional Experience:
Between 2006 and 2012 he was a member of the Graduate Center of Economics and Social Research of DIW Berlin. Since April 2006 he has been working as a research associate within the department of public economics at DIW Berlin.
Fields of interest:
Social policy, pension economics, savings and labor market behavior, microsimulation
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Dr. Daniela Glocker
Studies in Economics at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt and Free University Berlin (Degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Since September 2006 member of the Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research DIW Berlin and since September 2007 reseacher at the DIW Berlin.
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Sven Heitzler
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Competition Policy, Network, ICT and Regulatory Economics and Strategy, and ICT security
Current Employer: Detecon International GmbH, Deutsche Telekom Group
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Dr. Cathérine Müller
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Conflict, Post-Conflict, Development, Child Health
Current Employer: Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University in Brighton, UK
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück,Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Drakos
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Dr. Marc Vothknecht
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Development Economics, Social Protection, Analysis of Conflict
Current Employer: EU Commission
Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück
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Asst. Prof. Dr. Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Applied Health and Labor Economics
Current Employer: Cornell University, USA
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, Prof. Dr. Regina Riphahn, PhD
GC-Alumni
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Dr. Nataliya Barasinska
Cohort: GC2007
Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Household Finance, Credit Risk, Real Estate Markets
Current Employer: Deutsche Bundesbank
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Stephan
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Dr. Eva M. Berger
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Behavioral Economics
Current Employer: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß, Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb
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Dr. Frauke G. Braun
She has joined the DIW Graduate Center in September 2006. During the Graduate Center she worked as an intern with the Worldbank and the BDI, Berlin. Previously, she studied economics at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Lund, Sweden.
She was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, Electricity Policy Research Group (EPRG) from December 2009 to February 2010.
She has presented her work at various international conferences, among them the EEA, IAEE European Conference and WCERE/EAERE.
Fields of interest: green innovation / industrial economics, and empirical methods.
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Dr. Astrid CullmannDr. Astrid Cullmann
- Since 2009 senior researcher in the Dept. Innovation, Industry and Services
- 2009 Dr. rer. oec., Technische Universität Berlin (summa cum laude)
- 2006 Doctoral Student (Graduate Center, DIW Berlin)
- 2006 Dipl.-Volkswirtin, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2003/2004 Graduate Studies of Economics at University Carlos III in Madrid, Spain
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Dr. Ludwig Ensthaler
Cohort: GC2007
Research Interests: Mechanism Design, Market Design, Applied Mathematics, Experimental Economics, Economics of Intangibles and Electronic Goods
Current Employer: University College London
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Elmar Wolfstetter, Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D.
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Dr. Burcu Erdogan
She is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. She received her degree in Master of Science Program in Economics and Management Science in Humboldt University of Berlin in April 2006. She graduated from the Industrial Engineering department of Middle East Technical University in June 2003 and attended in the Psychology minor program in Middle East Technical University. She worked as a Student Research Assistant at the Institute of Economic Policy II from April 2004 until April 2006. Her master thesis was titeled “How different are Constant Interest Rate Inflation Forecasts from Variable Interest Rate Inflation Forecasts?”
Fields of interest: macroeconomics, econometrics, banking and finance.
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Dr. Johannes GeyerDr. Johannes Geyer
Education:
School of Business and Economics (Humboldt and Free University Berlin) from 2002 until 2006. Degree: Diploma in economics. Doctoral degree at FU Berlin (magna cum laude). Title of the thesis: Empirical Studies on Economic Risks, Demographic Change,
and Public Policy. Supervisors: Prof. Viktor Steiner and Prof. Carsten Schröder.Professional Experience:
Between 2006 and 2012 he was a member of the Graduate Center of Economics and Social Research of DIW Berlin. Since April 2006 he has been working as a research associate within the department of public economics at DIW Berlin.
Fields of interest:
Social policy, pension economics, savings and labor market behavior, microsimulation
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Dr. Daniela Glocker
Studies in Economics at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt and Free University Berlin (Degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Since September 2006 member of the Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research DIW Berlin and since September 2007 reseacher at the DIW Berlin.
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Dr. Clemens Haftendorn
Cohort: GC2009
Research Interests: Energy and Resources Economics, International Energy and Resources Markets, Applied Numerical Economic Modeling
Current Employer: Wood Mackenzie
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen, Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert
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Sven Heitzler
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Competition Policy, Network, ICT and Regulatory Economics and Strategy, and ICT security
Current Employer: Detecon International GmbH, Deutsche Telekom Group
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Dr. Antje Kröger
Cohort: GC2009
Research Interests: Development Economics, Survey and Evaluation Methodology, Agricultural Economics, Climate Policy
Current Employer: German Evaluation Institute (DEval), Bonn
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück, Prof. Dr. Kathryn Anderson
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Dr. Cathérine Müller
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Conflict, Post-Conflict, Development, Child Health
Current Employer: Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University in Brighton, UK
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück,Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Drakos
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Dr. Tony Muhumuza
Cohort 2008
Research Interests: Development Economics, Child labour, Poverty Analysis , Economics of Conflict
Current Employer: Research Fellow at Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE), Uganda
Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück
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Dr. Olga Nottmeyer
She is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Center of the DIW Berlin since September 2007. She holds a Bachelor in Mathematics and a master in Economics both from the Free University Berlin. Her bachelor thesis is entitled "music of markow chains" and analyzes the behaviour of markow chains invented by the Berlin composer Orm Finnendahl. In her diploma thesis she evaluated economic determinants on the decision for interethnic marriages of male migrants in Germany using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP) of the DIW and micro econometric methods.
Fields of interest: migration, econometrics, labor economics.
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Dr. Frauke H. PeterDr. Frauke H. Peter
2002-2005 Bachelor in International Economics at American University of Paris, France
2005-2006 Master of Science in Economics at Royal Holloway University of London, UK
since 2007 PhD candidate at DIW Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research
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Dr. Pia Rattenhuber
Cohort: GC2007
Research Interests: Public Economics, Labor Economics
Current Employer: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Viktor Steiner , Prof. Dr. Bernhard Boockmann
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Dr. Geza Sapi
Research Fields: Theoretical Industrial Organization
Current Employer: EU Commission, Economic Analyst (DG ECFIN B2, Product Market Reforms)
First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Wey (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)
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Dr. Wolf-Peter SchillDr. Wolf-Peter Schill
- 2000-2007: Studies of Environmental Technology, TU Berlin and Macquarie University Sydney
- July 2007: Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) Environmental Technology, Erwin-Stephan-Award
- 2007-2011: DIW Berlin Graduate Center
- July 2011: Dissertation at TU Berlin (Dr. oec.)
- Since September 2008: Department of Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Dr. Johanna StorckDr. Johanna Storck
Current Employer: DIW Berlin, Education Policy Department
Fields of interest: education economics, labor economicsPublications
- The Treatment Effect of Attending a High-Quality School and the Influence of Unobservables, DIW (with Ronny Freier), DIW Discussion Papers 1256 (2012).
- Risks and Returns to Educational Fields: A Financial Asset Approach to Vocational and Academic Education (mit Daniela Glocker), DIW Discussion Papers 1240 (2012).
- Uni, Fachhochschule oder Ausbildung - welche Fächer bringen die höchsten Löhne? (mit Daniela Glocker), Wochenbericht des DIW Berlin 13/2012, S. 3-8.
- Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (mit Nadja Dwenger und Katharina Wrohlich), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 31/1 (2012), überarbeitete Version des DIW Discussion Papers 926.
- Studiengebühren erhöhen die Mobilität von Studiengebühren kaum (mit Nadja Dwenger und Katharina Wrohlich), Wochenbericht des DIW Berlin 43/2009, S. 744-747
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Dr. Marc Vothknecht
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Development Economics, Social Protection, Analysis of Conflict
Current Employer: EU Commission
Dissertation Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tilman Brück
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Dr. Aleksandar ZaklanDr. Aleksandar Zaklan
Cohort: GC2008
Research Interests: Resource and Climate Economics, International Economics, Applied Econometrics
Current Employer: European University Institute, Florence/Italy and DIW Berlin, Dept. of Energy, Transportation, Environment
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen, Prof. Dr. Axel Werwatz
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Asst. Prof. Dr. Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Cohort: GC2006
Research Interests: Applied Health and Labor Economics
Current Employer: Cornell University, USA
Dissertation Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, Prof. Dr. Regina Riphahn, PhD
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