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Christian Zankiewicz, who previously worked at the department of Competition and Consumers, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays in Behavioral Economics and Econometrics" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Yves Breitmoser (Humboldt University ...
30.08.2017
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Anna Lu, who worked at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization in Grocery Retailing" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) and Prof. Dr. Justus Haucap (Heinrich Heine ...
28.08.2017
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Friederike Lenel, who worked at the Development and Security department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Humboldt University Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Informal Support and Insurance - The interplay between inter-household support arrangements and access to alternative risk management resources" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, ...
24.07.2017
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Kathleen Ngangoue, who works at the Competition and Consumers department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Humboldt University Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Decision-Making in Markets" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin) and Prof. Antonio Guarino, Ph.D. (University College London).
We congratulate Kathleen ...
21.07.2017
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Julia Rechlitz has been granted a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation from August 2017 on.
The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
12.07.2017
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Stefan Seifert and Marica Valente have been granted a research scholarship from the American Association of Economists (AAWE), as well as receiving a prize for their paper "An offer that you can’t refuse? Agrimafias and Migrant Labor on Vineyards in Southern Italy." Both were presented at the annual AAWE conference in Pedua, Italy.
The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates them ...
11.07.2017
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Michael Hachula, who works at the department of Forecasting and Economic Policy, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays on Unconventional Monetary Policy, Inflation Expectations, and Commodity Prices" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Nautz (Freie Universität Berlin) and Dr. Christian J. Offermanns (Deutsche ...
30.06.2017
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Benjamin Beckers, who works at the Macroeconomics department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Booms and Busts in Asset Prices: Risk Modeling, Bubble Detection, and the Role of Monetary Policy" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Bernoth ...
30.06.2017
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Nuria Boot has been granted a scholarship from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
30.06.2017
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Nils May, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate in the Climate Policy Department, has received a Student Paper Award from the International Association for Energy Economics. The award was presented for his paper "The Impact of Wind Power Support Schemes on Technology Choices" at the IAEE International Conference in Singapur.
30.06.2017
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Mathias Huebener, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate in the Department of Education and Family, has received the BeNA Innovative Research Award 2017 for his paper “Parental education and child health behaviour: Causal evidence from changes in compulsory schooling.” The paper was presented at the 2017 BeNA Summer Workshop.
13.06.2017
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Cortnie Anne Shupe has been granted a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
02.05.2017
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Jan Stede has been granted a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw) from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates him on his success!
25.04.2017
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Sarah Dahmann, who worked at the department of Socio-Economic Panel until December 2016, has successfully defended her dissertation at Freie Universität zu Berlin.The dissertation with the title „Human Capital Returns to Education – Three Essays on the Causal Effects of Schooling on Skills and Health“ was supervised by Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität ...
14.03.2017
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Florian Mölders, a DIW Graduate Center alumnus, has received the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development Best Paper Prize 2016 for your article ‘International knowledge spillovers through high-tech imports and R&D of foreign-owned firms’, published in volume 25, issue 4. together with Heike Belitz.
01.02.2017
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In January 2017, the DIW Graduate Center is happy to welcome its new dean, Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D.. He is professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin with research interests on experimental economics, financial decision-making, game theory, decision theory, and microeconomics. He's currently teaching as visiting professor at Stanford University in the winter term 2016/17 and will return to ...
06.01.2017
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Graduate Center Dean Helmut Lütkepohl retires after five very successful years as of January 1st. We would like to express our gratitude to Helmut in this for always being a great boss, supervisor, advisor and dean, and wish him a wonderful retirement time!
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01.01.2017
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Last week, 16 PhD graduates received their certificates. With a festive ceremony, the new PhDs were honored by DIW Berlin President Marcel Fratzscher and outgoing Graduate Center Dean Helmut Lütkepohl.
We wish each and every one much success with their future careers!
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20.12.2016
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Andreas Harasser, who worked at the department of Competition and Consumers until June 2015, has successfully defended his dissertation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.The dissertation with the title „Essays on Information Asymmetry and Vertical Relations“ was supervised by Georg Weizsäcker (DIW Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Pio Baake (DIW Berlin, Technische ...
12.12.2016
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Stefan Seifert, who joined the DIW Graduate Center in October 2011 and worked at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended his dissertation at Technische Universität Berlin.His dissertation entitled “Productivity and Efficiency in Electricity Generation and Distribution", was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen (DIW, TU Berlin) and Dr. Astrid Cullmann ...
14.10.2016