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...
Head of Forecasting 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...
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 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....
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
Frederik Kurcz is a PhD student at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate in the macroeconomics department. After first completing a B.Sc. in Economics and Business at the University of Hohenheim, Frederik studied Economics in the Master's program at the University of Tübingen with a semester abroad at Queen's University, Canada. During his studies, he worked at the Tübingen Chair...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Lukas Menkhoff is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Macroecomics at DIW Berlin, Professor (em.) of Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and member of the Finance Group at HU Berlin. His research focus is on International Finance, in particular foreign exchange markets, and Financial Development, including the impact of financial education, for example in Africa.
Until 2023 he...
Theresa Neef is a researcher in the Macroeconomics department at DIW and a Ph.D. student at Free University Berlin. She is also part of the research team of the EU Tax Observatory and a research fellow at the World Inequality Lab at Paris School of Economics. Her expertise lies in the areas of inequality research, public economics and international taxation. Her studies explore income inequality...
Laura joined the DIW Graduate Center in 2018 and the Forecasting and Economic Policy Department in 2019.
After completing a B.Sc. Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Laura obtained her B.Sc. Economics from the Free University Berlin, where she also worked as a research and teaching assistant at the chair of econometrics. Based on her bachelor’s dissertation, she published an article on...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
