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Matteo Targa has successfully defended his dissertation "Empirical Essays on Inequality" supervised by Carsten Schröder at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
16.05.2023
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Annekatrin Schrenker, recent Research Assistant in the Public Economics Department, received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin on May 12. Georg Weizsäcker (formerly the Dean of Graduate Studies of the Graduate Center) and Peter Haan (Head of the Public Economics Department) supervised her dissertation titled "Essays in Applied Economics.” We warmly congratulate her!
16.05.2023
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Mara Barschkett has successfully defended her dissertation titled "(Unintended) consequences of social and family policies on health and well-being: Five Essays in Health and Family Economics" supervised by C. Katharina Spieß (1. supervisor) and Peter Haan (2nd supervisor) at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
16.05.2023
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GC PhD researcher Andreas Leibing is currently visiting Stanford University for a research stay during the spring quarter hosted and sponsored by Eric Bettinger. Andreas himself is glad about this opportunity, and describes his stay as follows:
"I will stay at Stanford University as a visiting student researcher for the spring quarter and work on my job market paper. I look forward to meeting all ...
11.04.2023
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GC PhD researcher Jonas Hannane is currently visiting the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) for a short informal research stay hosted by Dr. Fabian Braesemann. Jonas is conducting research about online labor market (OLM) platforms, and more specifically investigating the role of advertising as a signal on OLM platforms. His visit at the OII presents the opportunity to meet and engage with researchers ...
15.03.2023
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Julia Rechlitz has successfully defended her dissertation on "Air Pollution Impacts and Energy Infrastructure Efficiency - Empirical Evidence with Official Micro Data". She was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen. Congratulations!
02.03.2023
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GC Doctoral Candidate Dennis Gaus of the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department will be completing a six-month internship at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from March 1st onwards. He will be working on a project on the determinants and effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) within the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CfE). ...
15.02.2023
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
The joint research of the Graduate Center's PhD candidate Laura Pagenhardt and Martin Gornig on the end of Germany's construction boom has been published in the current DIW weekly report. Congratulations!
13.01.2023
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Max Diegel has successfully defended his dissertation "Three Essays on Inflation Expectations in Empirical Macroeconomics". He was supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Nautz at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
02.12.2022
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Björn Fischer has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays on pension and Long-Term Care Policy" supervised by Peter Haan (1st supervisor) Freie Universität Berlin. He has since then taken on a position as post-doctoral researcher at the ZEW in Mannheim. Congratulations!
02.12.2022
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Tobias König has successfully defended his dissertation "Three Essays on the Role of Financial Frictions in Macroeconomics" supervised by Michael Burda (1st supervisor) and Alexander Kriwoluzky (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt University Berlin. He has now taken up a post-doc position at the University of Bonn. Congratulations!
02.12.2022
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Lukas Boer has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays in International Finance, Energy Economics, and Applied Times Series Econometrics" supervised by Lukas Menkhoff (1st supervisor) and by Michael Burda (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Congratulations!
02.12.2022
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Jan Philip Fritsche has successfully defended his dissertation "Macroeconomic Policy under Uncertainty and Inequality" supervised by Marcel Fratzscher (1st supervisor) and Lukas Menkhoff (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
02.12.2022
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Nicole Wägner has successfully defended her dissertation "External Effects of Local Pollution and Abatement Policies - Empirical Evidence on the Impacts of Local Pollution Externalities and the Effectiveness of Pollution Abatement Policies" supervised by Christian von Hirschhausen at Technische Universität Berlin. She has since then begun working as scientific research assistant at RWI Essen. Cong ...
02.12.2022
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Jan Malek has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays on Competition and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry” supervised by Jo Seldeslachts (1st supervisor) at KU Leuven and has now begun working for E.CA Economics in Berlin. Congratulations!
02.12.2022
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Jana Hamdan has successfully defended her dissertation "Essays on the Impact of Behavioral Aspects and Education for Financial Development" supervised by Lukas Menkhoff (1st supervisor) and Georg Weizsäcker (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Congratulations!
02.12.2022
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Report
Start of the next application period for our PhD programm (cohort starting in 2023) began on November 14, 2022. The deadline is February 12, 2023. We look forward to your application!
Apply here!
16.11.2022| Daniela Centemero
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Personnel news
Congratulations to Adrian Santonja for receiving the doctoral scholarship from the German Environmental Foundation. Being one of Europe's largest foundations, it promotes innovative exemplary projects in the field of environmental protection. Overall up to 60 PhD scholars are funded per year for a period of 36 months.
24.11.2021
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Nuria Boot has successfully defended her dissertation at the KU Leuven.
The dissertation with the title "Essays on Common Ownership and Financial Benchmark Rates" was supervised by Professor Dr. Jo Seldeslachts (KU Leuven and DIW Berlin).
Nuria was a PhD student in the Firms and Markets Department and GC class of 2016.
We congratulate Nuria on her success and wish her all the best for her future ...
25.10.2021
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Daniel Graeber has successfully (with summa cum laude!) defended his dissertation "Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Individual Health as well as Public Health Crises" supervised by Professor Dr. Marco Caliendo (1st supervisor) and Professor Dr. Daniel D. Schnitzlein (2nd supervisor) at University of Potsdam. Congratulations!
28.06.2021