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Vaishali Zambre, who works at the Education and Family department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Determinants of College Enrollment. Three Empirical Essays in the Economics of Education" was supervised by Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Thomas Siedler, PhD ...
27.11.2017
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Songül Tolan, who works at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Partial Retirement, Financial Student Aid, and Labor Market Outcomes" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Haan (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University).
We congratulate ...
14.11.2017
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Christian Krekel, who worked at the department of German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), has successfully defended his dissertation at the Paris School of Economics.The dissertation with the title "Evaluating the Non-Monetary Impacts of Major Events, Infrastructure, and Institutions" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics) and Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner (DIW Berlin, Technical ...
10.11.2017
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Nicolas R. Ziebarth (35), a student of the DIW Graduate Center’s first class, was promoted to “Associate Professor with indefinite tenure” in the Department for Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (USA). Ziebarth’s area of research is applied health and labor economics.
“It’s especially remarkable for an economist with a Ph.D. ...
08.11.2017
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Christian Zankiewicz, who previously worked at the department of Competition and Consumers, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays in Behavioral Economics and Econometrics" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Yves Breitmoser (Humboldt University ...
30.08.2017
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Anna Lu, who worked at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization in Grocery Retailing" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) and Prof. Dr. Justus Haucap (Heinrich Heine ...
28.08.2017
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Friederike Lenel, who worked at the Development and Security department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Humboldt University Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Informal Support and Insurance - The interplay between inter-household support arrangements and access to alternative risk management resources" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, ...
24.07.2017
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Kathleen Ngangoue, who works at the Competition and Consumers department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Humboldt University Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Decision-Making in Markets" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin) and Prof. Antonio Guarino, Ph.D. (University College London).
We congratulate Kathleen ...
21.07.2017
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Julia Rechlitz has been granted a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation from August 2017 on.
The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
12.07.2017
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Stefan Seifert and Marica Valente have been granted a research scholarship from the American Association of Economists (AAWE), as well as receiving a prize for their paper "An offer that you can’t refuse? Agrimafias and Migrant Labor on Vineyards in Southern Italy." Both were presented at the annual AAWE conference in Pedua, Italy.
The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates them ...
11.07.2017
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Michael Hachula, who works at the department of Forecasting and Economic Policy, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays on Unconventional Monetary Policy, Inflation Expectations, and Commodity Prices" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Nautz (Freie Universität Berlin) and Dr. Christian J. Offermanns (Deutsche ...
30.06.2017
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Benjamin Beckers, who works at the Macroeconomics department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Booms and Busts in Asset Prices: Risk Modeling, Bubble Detection, and the Role of Monetary Policy" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Bernoth ...
30.06.2017
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Nuria Boot has been granted a scholarship from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
30.06.2017
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Nils May, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate in the Climate Policy Department, has received a Student Paper Award from the International Association for Energy Economics. The award was presented for his paper "The Impact of Wind Power Support Schemes on Technology Choices" at the IAEE International Conference in Singapur.
30.06.2017
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Mathias Huebener, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate in the Department of Education and Family, has received the BeNA Innovative Research Award 2017 for his paper “Parental education and child health behaviour: Causal evidence from changes in compulsory schooling.” The paper was presented at the 2017 BeNA Summer Workshop.
13.06.2017
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Cortnie Anne Shupe has been granted a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
02.05.2017
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Jan Stede has been granted a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw) from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates him on his success!
25.04.2017
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Sarah Dahmann, who worked at the department of Socio-Economic Panel until December 2016, has successfully defended her dissertation at Freie Universität zu Berlin.The dissertation with the title „Human Capital Returns to Education – Three Essays on the Causal Effects of Schooling on Skills and Health“ was supervised by Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität ...
14.03.2017
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Florian Mölders, a DIW Graduate Center alumnus, has received the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development Best Paper Prize 2016 for your article ‘International knowledge spillovers through high-tech imports and R&D of foreign-owned firms’, published in volume 25, issue 4. together with Heike Belitz.
01.02.2017
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In January 2017, the DIW Graduate Center is happy to welcome its new dean, Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D.. He is professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin with research interests on experimental economics, financial decision-making, game theory, decision theory, and microeconomics. He's currently teaching as visiting professor at Stanford University in the winter term 2016/17 and will return to ...
06.01.2017