Peter Haan is Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin and Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin. Studies in Economics and Political Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Toronto (degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Visiting Fellow at LSE, Paris School of Economics, Institute for Fiscal Studies und UCL London....
Johannes Geyer is deputy head of the department of public economics at the DIW Berlin. He received his PhD in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin in 2012. He was also a member of the Graduate Center of the DIW. Between 2012 and 2016 he was a visiting professor at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin in addition to his work at the DIW Berlin. He is an affiliate of the Health Econometrics and Data...
Arianna Antezza has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center and the Berlin School of Economics since October 2024. She is part of the Gender Economics research group in the Public Economics Department. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a Financial Stability Analyst at the European Central Bank. She earned her Master’s in Economics from the Barcelona School of Economics. Prior to...
Ph.D. Student Public Economics; Ph.D. Student Gender Economics
Stefan Bach is research associate at the Public Finance Department at DIW Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. His research work is focused on empirical public finance, especially taxation, social security, climate policy, distribution of income and wealth, and microsimulation modeling.
Dominik Bursy is a doctoral researcher at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate in the Public Economics Department since 2024. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, complemented by study abroad periods at the University of Warwick (UK) and ENSAE Paris.
During his studies, he worked in the Department...
Hermann Buslei studied economics at the universities of Munich, Cologne and Bonn. After graduating (Diplom-Volkswirt), he worked as a research associate at empirica, Bonn, a private research and consulting institute (Jan. 1991-Aug. 1994). He interrupted this work for a study with Prof. Konrad Stahl, University of Mannheim, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Building and Urban Development. From...
Lars is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and DIW Berlin. He completed his MSc at the Freie University of Berlin. During his studies he worked as a student assistant at the department for public economics and the department for energy, transport and the environment at DIW Berlin. His research interests fall into the area of applied microeconomics where he works on topics of social...
Annica Gehlen is a Ph.D. candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and a research associate at the Department of Public Economics. She is interested in labor economics and structural econometrics. Annica holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin and a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Bonn. During her studies, she worked as a research...
Lavinia Kinne joined DIW as a Postdoc at the Gender Economics Research Group in the Public Economics Department in 2023. She is also part of the Berlin School of Economics, guest researcher at the University of Potsdam, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA). Her research focuses on topics around gender in labor economics and the economics of education.
Researcher Public Economics; Researcher Gender Economics
Maximilian Schaller is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics. Following undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at DHBW, he studied economics in the Master’s programs of RWTH Aachen and FU Berlin. Since October 2021, Maximilian worked as a research assistant at the Public Economics department of the DIW Berlin. During this time, he contributed to research on heterogeneous life...
Clara Schäper joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD student in 2020. She obtained her B.Sc. in Economics at the University of Mannheim and her M.Sc. in Applied Economics with a major in Public Policy and Development (PPD) at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). In her master’s thesis she studied the interdependence between discrimination in hiring and segregation on the firm- and...
Ph.D. Student Gender Economics; Ph.D. Student Public Economics
Renke Schmacker is a Research Associate at the DIW Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Before joining DIW, he spent three years as an SNF Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD from the Berlin School of Economics in 2020 and previously studied at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Copenhagen, and Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research...
Mia Teschner-Hofmann is a research associate in the Public Economics Department. She is a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Economics and the Free University Berlin. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of Potsdam and a master’s degree in economics from the Free University Berlin. Mia's research interests lie in the fields of labor economics,...
Izabela Wnuk-Soares is a Postdoctoral Researcher at DIW Berlin, jointly appointed with the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin. She earned her PhD in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin and her MSc from the London School of Economics. She has also completed research stays at Boston University and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research lies in labor and applied microeconomics. She studies how...
Researcher Public Economics; Researcher Crime, Labour and Inequality
Katharina Wrohlich is Professor of Public Finance, Gender and Family Economics at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Gender Economics Research Group at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Her research focuses on the evaluation of labor market, family and tax policy on employment and wages of women. Moreover, she is working on the issue of gender gaps in the labor market...
Head Gender Economics; Head Research Group Public Economics
