Geraldine Dany-Knedlik heads the team of forecasting and economic policy at the DIW Berlin. Geraldine Dany-Knedlik's expertise lies in the areas of international macroeconomics and monetary policy. Special thematic focuses are inflation and monetary policy, spillovers of monetary policy, and the interactions between the business cycles and cycles of income and wealth inequality. Until 2021, she...
Deputy Head of Department Macroeconomics; Head Forecasting and Economic Policy
Dr. Kerstin Bernoth is Co-Dean of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn and worked from 2004 to 2009 as a researcher in the economic policy and research department of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Central Bank of the Netherlands. Her research interests include monetary policy, international economics, financial...
Co-Dean Graduate Center; Research Associate Macroeconomics
Karina Böhm has been employed as a research manager at DIW Berlin since September 2023. She gained her long-standing professional experience in science management at Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) and Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. Karina Böhm has a background in Communication and Media Studies, Educational Science and Psychology (Leipzig University and...
Nina is a second-year doctoral researcher in the PhD program at DIW Berlin, working within the Macroeconomics Department. As a member of the institute's forecasting team, she focuses on forecasting the German inflation rate and the broader European economy. Her responsibilities include the development and refinement of forecasting models, as well as the interpretation of macroeconomic trends for...
Dr. Sonja Dobkowitz is a researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in Berlin. She explores how social and economic factors, such as income inequality, demand, or inno-vation, influence the effectiveness of fiscal and climate policies. Her academic career took her to various institutions across Europe and the US. She obtained her degrees in Economics from the University...
Alina Ermolaeva is a PhD student at the Berlin School of Economics and has been working in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin since 2023. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, where she specialized in Monetary Policy and Banking. During her master’s studies, she was awarded the Amsterdam...
Adelina Garamow is a doctoral candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center. Since 2023, she has been working as a research associate in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin.
She obtained her B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Mannheim and her M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Bonn. Before starting her doctoral studies, Adelina worked at the...
Sarah Godar is researcher at the Macroeconomics department at DIW and part of the research team of the EU Tax Observatory. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on international tax avoidance, tax competition and offshore wealth.
Angelina Hackmann supports the Department of Macroeconomics as Research Associate and is in particular responsible for the coverage of the labour market in the forecasting team. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in finance and industry from TU Braunschweig and her master’s degree in economics from Osnabrück University. She pursued her doctoral studies at the University of Bremen....
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Pia Hüttl is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and a Master’s in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics. She has worked at the European Commission and the European Central Bank. For three years, she was a Research Affiliate at Bruegel, a Brussels...
Gökhan Ider is a Doctoral student at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center, and has been working in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin since 2021. He completed both a Bachelor and Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering at University College London before pursuing an MSc in Economics at the University of Konstanz. During his master's studies at Konstanz, he was...
Konstantin A. Kholodilin was born in 1973 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia). He had graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State University in 1995. In 2003, he obtained his doctor title from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and in 2012 a title of Doctor habilitatus from the Europa-Universität Viadrina (Germany). From 2001 till 2004, he was a researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Jo-Ya joined the DIW Graduate Center and the macroeconomics department in 2023. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mainz with a specialization in International Economics. Her master’s thesis examined the policy implications and potential risks of introducing central bank digital currencies. In 2023, she interned at the ifo Center for International Economics in Munich....
Frederik Kurcz is a doctoral student at the Macroeconomics Department and at the Berlin School of Economics (Freie Universität Berlin). His research studies monetary and fiscal policy transmission with household heterogeneity. His job market paper, “Quantifying the Fiscal Channel of Monetary Policy,” combines new evidence on fiscal responses to monetary shocks with a Heterogeneous Agent New...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Laura joined the DIW Berlin in 2018. She completed her PhD within the DIW Graduate Center and at Freie Universität Berlin and works as a Research Associate in the Macroeconomics department. Already during her doctoral studies, she contributed to the DIW's economic forecasts, where she is responsible for analyzing and forecasting investment activity in Germany. Her research interests include...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Prof. Dr. Malte Rieth is research associate to the Department of Macroeconomics and Professor of Monetary Economics at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He was a strategist in the financial sector and received his PhD from the Technische Universität Dortmund. His research focuses on Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Policy. He has published in the American Economic Journal:...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate
