Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin and Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. Ph.D in Economics with distinction (Supervisors: Prof. Viktor Steiner and Prof. Richard Blundell). Studies in Economics and Political Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Toronto (degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Visiting Fellow at...
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...
Stefan Bach is research associate at the Public Finance Department at DIW Berlin and lecturer at Potsdam University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. His research work is focused on empirical public finance, especially taxation, social security, distribution of income and wealth, and microsimulation modeling.
Sebastian joined the Berlin School of Economics as a PhD student in 2019. He obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. Degree in Economics from the University of Bonn. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Applied Microeconomics and the briq Institute on Behavior and Inequality, as well as a teaching assistant at the Institute for Finance and Statistics at the University...
Theresa Bührle is a research associate in the Public Economics Department. She studied business administration at the University of Mannheim and received her doctorate in taxation in 2022. In her research, she uses empirical methods to examine the economic effects of tax policy, with a focus on innovation and loss offset. A second focus is on tax planning and distribution effects in the context of...
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...
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...
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...
Research Associate Gender Economics; Ph.D. Student Public Economics
Virginia is a research associate in DIW's research group Gender Economics since October 2020. She joined the Berlin School of Economics as a PhD student in 2019. She holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Economics and Business Administration from Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Before her doctoral studies, Virginia gained two years of professional...
Research Associate Gender Economics; Ph.D. Student Public Economics
Mia Teschner 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, health...
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; Research Associate Public Economics
