Faculty
Permanent Faculty
DIW Berlin has linked its research work with university research by awarding professorships to its department heads. Cooperation agreements have been concluded with all three Berlin universities (Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin) as well as with the University of Potsdam and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. As a result, an academic network has been established that also provides for the training of doctoral students.
Currently, the members of the Permanent Faculty are:
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin since 2000), is Professor of Economics at Bonn University, Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA Bonn), Honorary Professor of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, Associate Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, Research Associate of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) at the University of California-San Diego, and member of the "Group of Economic Analysis" (GEA) to the President of the EU Commission.
Research fields: labor economics, population economics, migration, industrial organization, econometrics.
Publications: Author or editor of 32 books and over 170 papers in refereed journals and collected volumes, among others: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Public Choice, Sociological Methods and Research, Review of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics, Kyklos, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Economics Letters, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization.
Georg Meran
Professor Georg Meran, Vice-President of DIW Berlin, is Professor of Environmental Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Technische Universität Berlin.
Research fields: industrial economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics.
Publications: articles in Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Homo oeconomicus, German Economic Review.
Badi Baltagi
Professor Badi Baltagi, Professor of Economics, Syracuse University, NY.
Research fields: theoretical and applied econometrics.
Publications: Econometric Theory, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Friedel Bolle
Professor Friedel Bolle, Professor of Economic Theory, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.
Research fields: microeconomics, game theory, energy economics, experimental economics.
Publications: Economics Letters, Energy Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Review of Network Economics, Theory and Decision.
Tilman Brück
Professor Tilman Brück, Head of the Department of International Economics at DIW Berlin, is Professor of Development Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin
Research fields: Development Economics, Poverty and Coping Strategies, Terrorism, Conflict, War and Post-War Reconstruction.
Publications: Journal of Peace Research, Defence and Peace Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Oxford Development Studies, World Development, European Journal of Political Economy, Global Crime and others.
Irwin Collier
Professor Irwin Collier, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Freie Universität Berlin.
Research fields: social policy, labor economics, pensions, international trade, measurement theory.
Publications: articles in American Economic Review, Economica, East European Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Amelie F. Constant
Amelie F. Constant, Executive Director of DIW DC and a visiting professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Vice Dean of Graduate Studies at DIW Berlin and the Deputy Program Director of Migration at IZA.
Research fields: international migration, assimilation issues, gendered differences in labor market outcomes, occupational mobility, labor market segmentation, minorities and schooling quality and earnings.
Publications: Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Economic and Behavioral Organization, Population Research, Policy Review, International Migration, Small Business Economics, The International Journal of Manpower, The International Migration Review, Social Science Research, Kyklos, Economic Letters, Applied Economics Letters, Urban Studies and Applied Economics Quarterly
Joachim R. Frick
Joachim R. Frick, Deputy Director of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), "Privatdozent" for Empirical Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin.
Research interests: welfare economics, population economics, social policy, methodological issues related to the measurement of economic outcomes, cross-national panel research.
Publications: Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of European Social Policy, Population Research and Policy Review, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Social Indicators Research, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ageing & Society, Journal of Comparative Economics.
Jürgen Gerhards
Professor Jürgen Gerhards, Professor of Macrosociology, Freie Universität Berlin.
Research fields: cultural studies, comparative sociology, sociological theory.
Publications: articles in American Journal of Sociology, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, International Sociology, Social Science Information, Theory and Society, Soziale Welt, Zeitschrift für Soziologie.
Uwe Hassler
Professor Uwe Hassler is Professor for Statistics and Econometric Methods at the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt/ Main.
Research fields: Trending time series, co integration, Long memory time series, Seasonal time series, Structural breaks, Dynamic panels.
Publications: articles in Econometric Theory, Economics Letters, Journal of Econometrics, Economics Bulletin, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society and many others.
Christian von Hirschhausen
Professor Christian von Hirschhausen, Professor of Energy Economics and Public Sector Management, Technische Universität Dresden.
Research fields: applied industrial economics, energy economics, infrastructure and network economics.
Publications: Applied Economics, Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Journal of Energy and Development, Post-Communist Economies, Utilities Policies.
Stephen Jenkins
Professor Stephen Jenkins, Professor of Applied Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, UK.
Research fields: income and poverty, measurement, panel econometrics.
Publications: Economic Journal, Empirical Economics, Fiscal Studies, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Social Policy, Labor Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
Claudia Kemfert
Professor Claudia Kemfert, Head of the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment at DIW Berlin, is Professor of Environmental Economics at the Faculty of Economics at Humboldt Universität Berlin.
Research fields: Assessment and evaluation of climate, energy and environmental policy strategies, computational general equilibrium models (CGE), integrated assessment models (IAM), overlapping generations models, game theoretical concepts for international environmental agreements.
Publications: articles in Energy Economics, Journal of Policy Modeling, Environmental and Resource Economics, etc.
Dorothea Kübler
Professor Dorothea Kübler is Professor of Microeconomics at the Technische Universität Berlin.
Research fields: decision theory, experimental economics, game theory, industrial economics.
Publications: articles in Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Economics, Labor Economics, Review of Economic Studies.
Hans-Georg Petersen
Professor Hans-Georg Petersen, Professor of Public Economics, Universität Potsdam.
Research fields: tax policy, public finance, fiscal federalism, transformation economics, environmental conomics.
Publications: Canadian Tax Journal, Econometrica, Empirica, Finanzarchiv, Kyklos, The Review of Income and Wealth.
Michael Pflüger
Professor Michael Pflüger, Professor of International Economics, Universität Passau.
Research fields: international Economics, Urban Economics, Trade Policy, tax competition.
Publications: European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Integration, Journal of Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Philipp Schröder
Professor Philipp Schröder, Associated Professor at the Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, DK.
Research fields: international economics, European economic integration, globalization, transition economics, economics of open source software.
Publications: Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Systems, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics.
Jürgen Schupp
Professor Jürgen Schupp, Survey Manager and Deputy Director of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and Professor for Sociology, Free University Berlin
Research Fields: Survey Methodology, Comparative sociology, Mobility and Inequality, Social Capital, Sociology of the Life Course and Intergenerational Transmission.
Publications: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Soziale Welt, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Wirtschaftspsychologie, Developmental Psychology, Social Indicators Research, European Sociological Review.
C. Katharina Spiess
Professor C. Katharina Spiess, Professor for the Economics of the Family and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), member of the German-Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at DIW Berlin, member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs.
Research fields: family economics; economics of education; health research; distributional issues; links between economics, educational science, psychology and sociology; policy advise.
Publications: articles in Research in Labor Economics, Ageing and Society, Journal of Population Economics, Population Research and Policy Review, Population Studies and Zeitschrift für Soziologie.
Viktor Steiner
Professor Viktor Steiner, Head of the Department Public Economics at DIW Berlin, is Professor of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Viktor Steiner is also a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn.
Research fields: empirical public economics, social policy, labor economics.
Publications: German Economic Review, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics Quarterly, and many others.
Alfred Steinherr
Professor Alfred Steinherr, Head of the Department Macro Analysis and Forecasting at DIW Berlin, is Full Professor of Economics at Free University Bolzano, Italy.
Research fields: labor market, methods of business cycle forecasting, financial markets.
Publications: articles in Bell Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Economica, Economics Letters, International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Industrial Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Andreas Stephan
Professor Andreas Stephan, Junior Professor of Economics, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.
Research fields: applied econometrics, empirical economics, industrial economics.
Publications: Applied Economics, Applied Economic Quarterly, Public Choice, Research Policy, Review of Regional Science.
Truong P. Truong
Professor Dr. Truong P. Truong, Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia (microeconomics, energy and climate change, CGE modelling).
Gert G. Wagner
Professor Gert G. Wagner, is Professor of Economics at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and Research Director at DIW Berlin, where he directs the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). He is a member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat), elected reviewer of the German National Science Foundation (DFG), and he serves on Germany’s Advisory Board for Statistics ("Statistischer Beirat").
Research fields: survey statistics, social risk management, policy advice.
Publications: articles in Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Journal of Public Economics, International Migration Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics.
Bernd Wegener
Bernd Wegener, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director of the European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies.
Research fields: inequality, stratification and social mobility; social justice research; social research and methods; evaluation research.
Publications: American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Sociological Research and Methods, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, Social Justice Research, European Sociological Review
Axel Werwatz
Professor Axel Werwatz, Head of the Department of Innovation, Manufacturing, Service is Professor for Econometrics at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Potsdam.
Research fields: applied econometrics, estimation of treatment effects, semi- and nonparametric models for panel data, state space models and Kalman filtering, empirical industrial economics.
Publications: articles in Econometric Theory, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Computational Statistics, Journal of Epidemiology, and many others.
Christian Wey
Professor Christian Wey is the Head of the Department of Information Society at DIW Berlin and has a chair for Networks and Information and Information Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Technische Universität Berlin.
Research fields: competition policy, microeconomics, industrial economics, game theory, network economics.
Publications: articles in RAND Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Assocations, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and others.
Harald von Witzke
Professor Harald von Witzke, Professor of of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Research fields: agricultural economics, development economics, trade policy.
Publications: Agrarwirtschaft, Agrarmarkt, German Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Elmar Wolfstetter
Professor Elmar Wolfstetter is the Head of the Institute for Economic Theory at the Humboldt Universität Berlin.
Research fields: Auctions, market design, optimal incentives, optimal contracts, industrial organisation.
Publications: Economic Journal, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Oxford Economic Papers, Rand Journal of Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, and many others.