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Personalie
On October 1, 2025, Robin Sogalla successfully completed his dissertation entitled „International Trade and Climate Policy: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity“ with summa cum laude at the Technische Universität Berlin.
The dissertation was submitted and successfully defended by Robin as part of the doctoral programme in economics. The committee consisted of Prof. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and TU Berlin), ...
02.10.2025
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Personalie
Felix Schmidt, Research Associate in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Modeling variable renewable energy systems. The role of weather uncertainty, heating and long-duration storage” with summa cum laude on July 18, 2025. He was supervised by Christian von Hirschhausen. Congratulations!
21.07.2025
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Personalie
Izabela Wnuk-Soares, Research Associate in the Public Economics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Essays on Immigration, Population Aging, and Labor Markets” with summa cum laude on July 15, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Peter Haan and Jan Stuhler. Congratulations!
17.07.2025
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Personalie
Laura Pagenhardt, Research Associate in the Macroeconomics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Policy in Practice: Communication, Rules, and Income Inequality - Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics” on June 26, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Alexander Kriwoluzky and Marcel Fratzscher. Congratulations!
30.06.2025
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Personalie
Hannah Seidl, Research Associate in the Macroeconomics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Essays in Macroeconomics” with summa cum laude on June 26, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Lutz Weinke and Marcel Fratzscher. Congratulations!
30.06.2025
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Personalie
Martin Kittel, Research Associate in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Five Essays in Energy System Analysis - Exploring the Dunkelflaute and Unintended Storage Cycling” on January 27, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Tom Brown, Claudia Kemfert, and Wolf-Peter Schill. Congratulations!
22.04.2025
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Personalie
Virginia Sondergeld, former Research Associate in the Public Economics department and the Research Group Gender Economics, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Women in management: Essays in Gender and Labor Economics” on January 31, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich. Congratulations!
03.02.2025
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Bericht
Am 05.12. hat das Institut und das DIW GC 15 unserer Graduierten mit einer feierlichen Zeremonie verabschiedet. Nach einer Eröffnungsrede von Marcel Fratzscher und einer inspirierenden Rede von Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ziebarth, wurde auch Helmut Lütkepohl feierlich in seinen wohlverdienten Ruhestand verabschiedet. Der Vorstand und Kerstin Bernoth dankten ihm herzlich für seine bedeutende Arbeit in der Doktorand*innenausbildung ...
06.12.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
Sie überlegen, sich für das strukturierte Doktorandenprogramm des DIW Graduate Center zu bewerben? Dies ist Ihre Chance, mehr über unser Programm zu erfahren, Fragen zu stellen und direkt mit unserem Team in Kontakt zu treten. Entdecken Sie, wie Sie von einer exzellenten akademischen Ausbildung, einem lebendigen Forschungsumfeld und einem Vollzeitstipendium profitieren können. Wir freuen uns darauf, ...
02.12.2024| Laura Starck
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Bericht
Das Bewerbungsportal für das Promotionsprogramm des DIW Graduate Centers ist ab sofort geöffnet!
Absolventen können sich bis zum 15. Januar 2025 für den Jahrgang 2025 8Start: Oktober 2025) bewerben. Das Programm bietet eine strukturierte Doktorandenausbildung mit einem Vollstipendium im ersten Jahr und einer Anstellung in einer Abteilung in den Folgejahren. Bewerber sollten einen Masterabschluss in ...
15.10.2024| Laura Starck
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Personalie
Johannes Seebauer, Research Associate at SOEP and the DIW Graduate Center, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics” with summa cum laude on November 19, 2024. The scientific reviewers were Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. Congratulation!
11.10.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
We congratulate Jonas Hannane on successfully defending his dissertation on 08 October 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization’ and he was supervised by Tomaso Duso and Hannes Ullrich.
We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
11.10.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
We congratulate Mats Kröger on successfully defending his dissertation on 26 September 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Does a fair transition reduce efficiency? Essays on the distributional effects of energy and climate policy’ and he was supervised by Karsten Neuhoff and Chloé Le-Coq.
We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
11.10.2024
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Bericht
We are excited to welcome the new 2024 cohort of PhD students, with some joining through the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE) and others directly through our program. All of them will conduct their research at DIW Berlin, marking the start of their academic journey with us.
We wish them all the best as they embark on the path toward earning their doctorates and look forward to supporting their research ...
30.09.2024| Arianna Antezza, Lukas Barner, Dominik Patrick Bursy, Alexander Grawe, Jonas Jungehülsing, Andreea-Maria Stoica
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
We congratulate Fabian Seyrich on successfully defending his dissertation on 9 July 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Five Essays in Macroeconomics’ and he was supervised by Prof Dr Alexander Kriwoluzky and Prof Dr Christian Bayer. Fabian will remain with DIW and the Macroeconomics Department for part of the time. From 15 August 2024, he will also take up a new position as Assistant Professor at the ...
14.08.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
Andreas Leibing, who works at the Public Economics Department, has successfully defended his dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title "Education, Expectations, and the Economy: Four Essays in Education and Labor Economics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Katharina Spieß and Prof. Dr. Jan Marcus.
We congratulate Andreas on his success and wish him all the best for his future ...
31.07.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
DIW Graduate Center and the Berlin School of Economics have approved an exchange programme with the PhD programme of the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE). This includes participation in PhD courses for which you will receive accreditation (please note that core courses are not interchangeable) as well as research stays at the AMSE faculty.
If you are interested in joining AMSE for a few months, ...
20.06.2024| Kerstin Bernoth
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
Ben Schumann, who works at the Macroeconomics Department, has successfully defended his dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Four Essays in Macroeconomics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Alexander Kriwoluzky and Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller.
We congratulate Ben on his success and wish him all the best for his future career.
25.04.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
Dennis Gaus, who works at the Energy, Transportation, Environment department, has successfully defended his dissertation at Technische Universität Dresden.
The dissertation with the title "Highway Infrastructure and its Maintenance: Economic Effects on Regions and Firms in Germany" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Georg Hirte and Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann.
We congratulate Dennis on his success ...
13.03.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
The Graduate Center of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw (FES UW) are organizing a German-Polish Summer School for Ph.D. students in economics in Warsaw September 9-14, 2024. The distinguished, internationally renowned lecturers will be Prof. Jeffrey Wooldridge (Michigan State University) and Prof. Monica Costa-Dias ...
06.03.2024| Kerstin Bernoth