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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
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
Robin Sogalla, Ph.D. Student of the Firms and Markets Department, received the Best Paper Award 2024 at the conference of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna for his paper "Unilateral Climate Policy and Heterogeneous Firms". Congratulations!
06.03.2024| Robin Sogalla
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Personalie
Alexander Roth, who works at the Energy, Transportation, Environment department, has successfully defended his dissertation at Technische Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Five essays in energy economics - Numerical and empirical perspectives on the decarbonization of the energy sector" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen.
We congratulate Alexander on his success ...
22.02.2024
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Nachrichten
Start of the next application period for our PhD programm (cohort starting in 2024) began on November 13, 2023. The deadline is February 11, 2024. We look forward to your application!
Apply here!
16.01.2024| Daniela Centemero
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
Mariza Montes de Oca Leon, who worked at the Energy, Transportation, Environment department, has successfully defended her dissertation at Humboldt University of Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "The political economy of carbon pricing: Modelling and empirical assessment of carbon pricing policies" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Franziska Holz.
We congratulate Mariza on her success ...
30.11.2023| Mariza Montes de Oca León
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Personalie
Boryana Ilieva, who worked at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended her dissertation at Humboldt University of Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Essays on Labor Economics, Dynamic Decision Making and the Role of Gender" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph. D. and Prof. Dr. Peter Haan.
We congratulate Boryana on her success and wish her all the best for her future ...
16.11.2023
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Personalie
Shan Huang has successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Copenhagen.
The dissertation with the title "Essays on the economics of health care provision" was supervised by Professor Dr. Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen).
Shan was a PhD student at the Firms and Markets Department and GC class of 2017. We congratulate her on her success and wish her all the best ...
16.11.2023
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Personalie
Congratulations to Laura Schmitz for her dissertation defense. Her dissertation was titled 'Understanding the Impact of Education and Environmental Policy on Human Capital Formation: Four Essays in Applied Economics', Katharina Spiess and Felix Weinhardt were her supervisors. Laura will not be leaving us, but is now starting as a PostDoc in the Energy, Transport, Environment Department.
30.06.2023
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Personalie
Stephanie Ettmeier was recently a research assistant in the Macroeconomics Department and received her doctorate with her dissertation titled "From Policy to Practice: Applying Empirical Analysis and Historic Contexts to Understand Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and their Interaction" on May 15. Her supervisor was Alexander Kriwoluzky, Head of the Department of Macroeconomics. Congratulations!
31.05.2023
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Personalie
Matteo Targa has successfully defended his dissertation "Empirical Essays on Inequality" supervised by Carsten Schröder at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
16.05.2023
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Personalie
Annekatrin Schrenker, recent Research Assistant in the Public Economics Department, received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin on May 12. Georg Weizsäcker (formerly the Dean of Graduate Studies of the Graduate Center) and Peter Haan (Head of the Public Economics Department) supervised her dissertation titled "Essays in Applied Economics.” We warmly congratulate her!
16.05.2023
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Personalie
Mara Barschkett has successfully defended her dissertation titled "(Unintended) consequences of social and family policies on health and well-being: Five Essays in Health and Family Economics" supervised by C. Katharina Spieß (1. supervisor) and Peter Haan (2nd supervisor) at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
16.05.2023
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Personalie
GC PhD researcher Andreas Leibing is currently visiting Stanford University for a research stay during the spring quarter hosted and sponsored by Eric Bettinger. Andreas himself is glad about this opportunity, and describes his stay as follows:
"I will stay at Stanford University as a visiting student researcher for the spring quarter and work on my job market paper. I look forward to meeting all ...
11.04.2023
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Personalie
GC PhD researcher Jonas Hannane is currently visiting the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) for a short informal research stay hosted by Dr. Fabian Braesemann. Jonas is conducting research about online labor market (OLM) platforms, and more specifically investigating the role of advertising as a signal on OLM platforms. His visit at the OII presents the opportunity to meet and engage with researchers ...
15.03.2023