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
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
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 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
Jan-Christopher Scherer is a Research Associate in Forecasting and Economic Policy in the Department of Macroeconomics, where he is responsible for the national accounts. After studying economics at the University of Mannheim (bachelor's degree) and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (master's degree), he earned his doctorate in the Doctoral Program in Economics at the Halle Institute for...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Since May 2023, Teresa Schildmann supports the Department of Macroeconomics as Research Associate and is in particular responsible for the coverage of public finance in the forecasting team. Previously, she was in charge of labor market forecasting. After obtaining her bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Bonn, she pursued her doctoral studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt....
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Ben studied at the Free University of Berlin, where he also finished his PhD om 2025 while also being a member of the DIW GC. He subsequently joined the macroeconomics department of DIW as a postdoctoral researcher. During his studies Ben has worked at the European Central Bank, the European Parliament and the German Minimum Wage Commission. His research interests lie in the field of monetary and...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Hannah Seidl is a postdoc in the department of macroeconomics and leads the world forecasting team. Hannah obtained her Ph.D. from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she has also earned a B.A. in Social Science and a B.Sc. in Economics. She holds a M.Sc. in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin. Hannah's research interests focus on fiscal and monetary economics and its distributional effects...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Fabian Seyrich is a research associate in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin and Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics at the Institute of Economics at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Free University of Berlin, a Master's degree in Economics from the Free University of Berlin and a Bachelor's degree from the Albert-Ludwigs-University of...
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Ruben Staffa is a researcher in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin, where he is responsible for forecasting trade developments in trade as well as managing data infrastructure and preparation within the forecasting unit. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the Free University Berlin and his master's degree in money and finance from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main....
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Kristin is a doctoral student of the 2021 cohort at the DIW Graduate Center and since October 2022 a doctoral student at the department of Macroeconomics, where she is working on the economic forecast of the DIW and the joint economic forecast. She obtained both, the bachelor’s degree in Political Economics and the master’s degree in Economics at the University of Heidelberg. During her studies,...
Jana Wittich is a Doctoral student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and the Macroeconomics Department. She holds two Bachelor degrees in Governance and Public Policy and European Studies from the University of Passau, with a specialization in Economics, Global Governance and Political Science. During her studies, she spent two semesters at the University of Nantes, France. Subsequently, she...
