The comparative study of housing decommodification lags behind classical welfare state research, while housing research itself is rich in homeownership studies but lacks comparative accounts of private and social rentals due to missing comparative data. Building on existing works and various primary sources, this study presents a new collection of up to forty-eight countries’ social housing shares ...
Nicole Wägner has successfully defended her dissertation "External Effects of Local Pollution and Abatement Policies - Empirical Evidence on the Impacts of Local Pollution Externalities and the Effectiveness of Pollution Abatement Policies" supervised by Christian von Hirschhausen at Technische Universität Berlin. She has since then begun working as scientific research assistant at RWI Essen. Cong ...
Max Diegel has successfully defended his dissertation "Three Essays on Inflation Expectations in Empirical Macroeconomics". He was supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Nautz at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
Tobias König has successfully defended his dissertation "Three Essays on the Role of Financial Frictions in Macroeconomics" supervised by Michael Burda (1st supervisor) and Alexander Kriwoluzky (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt University Berlin. He has now taken up a post-doc position at the University of Bonn. Congratulations!
Björn Fischer has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays on pension and Long-Term Care Policy" supervised by Peter Haan (1st supervisor) Freie Universität Berlin. He has since then taken on a position as post-doctoral researcher at the ZEW in Mannheim. Congratulations!
Lukas Boer has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays in International Finance, Energy Economics, and Applied Times Series Econometrics" supervised by Lukas Menkhoff (1st supervisor) and by Michael Burda (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Congratulations!
Jan Malek has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays on Competition and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry” supervised by Jo Seldeslachts (1st supervisor) at KU Leuven and has now begun working for E.CA Economics in Berlin. Congratulations!
