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    The DIW Graduate Center has new Student’s Representatives

    We happily announce that the doctoral students across all cohorts have elected their new 2016 Student’s Representatives. It was a tight race, with Marie LeMouel and Marica Valente coming out on top! This is Marcia’s first term and Marie’s second – and we wish them all the best as they bring their keen sense of the issues important to the GC students, as well as continued good ...

    10.02.2016
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    Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber, Chairman of Boards of Trustees congratulates Graduates 2015 of the DIW Graduate Center

    On 11th of December 2015, seven junior scientists received their certificates at the 2015 Commencement Ceremony of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). On hand to congratulate the students were DIW Berlin President Marcel Fratzscher, GC Dean Helmut Lütkepohl, and the new Chairman of the DIW Berlin Board of Trustees, Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber.Prof. Dr. Weber, ...

    08.01.2016
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    Roman Mendelevitch receives the Conference Presentation Award for Young Researchers

    Roman Mendelevitch, a doctoral student of the Energy, Transportation, Environment department, was awarded the "Conference Presentation Award for Young Researchers" (Vortragsprämie) for his talk based on the paper "Market Power Rents and Climate Change Mitigation: A Rationale for Coal Export Taxes?”" at the EAERE Annual Conference 2015 in Helsinki. The award is endowed by the German Bundesbank ...

    06.01.2016
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    Nils May receives the Conference Presentation Award for Young Researchers

    Nils May, a doctoral student of the Climate Policy department, was awarded the "Conference Presentation Award for Young Researchers" (Vortragsprämie) for his talk based on his paper "The Impact of Wind Power Support Schemes on Technology Choices"  at the EAERE Annual Conference 2015 in Helsinki. The award is endowed by the German Bundesbank and was awarded by the Verein für Socialpolitik ...

    06.01.2016
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    GC Winter Workshop 2015

    The 2015 GC Winter Workshop was hosted by DIW Berlin on December 10th and 11th. Five alumni and four PhD candidates presented their research, receiving valuable feedback. Topics ranged from environmental economics to public finance and macroeconomics, with discussions – sometimes heated – from GC students. Serving as an opportunity students and alumni to meet in order to discuss research ...

    23.12.2015
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    Nicolas Ziebarth receives the “Regionalisierte Versorgungsforschung” Science Award

    DIW GC almunus Nicolas Ziebarth was awarded the 2015 “Regionalisierte Versorgungsforschung” Science Award, together with co-author Peter Eibich. Their paper, “Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models,” received the 5,000€ prize. The investigation of Peter Eibich and Nicolas Ziebarth addresses the modeling and estimation ...

    17.12.2015
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    Christoph Große Steffen has sucessfully defended his dissertation

    Christoph Große Steffen sucessfully defended his dissertation on December 3rd at FU Berlin. Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner and Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulate him on his success!

    04.12.2015
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    Sören Radde has sucessfully defended his dissertation

    Sören Radde sucessfully defended his dissertation on November 27th at TU Berlin. Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner and Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulate him on his success!

    02.12.2015
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    Veronika Bertram-Hümmer has sucessfully defended her dissertation

    Veronika Bertram-Hümmer sucessfully defended her dissertation on November 25th at Leibniz University of Hannover. Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner and Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulate her on her success!

    02.12.2015
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    Veronika Bertram-Hümmer receives the University Meets Microfinance Award

    Veronika Bertram-Hümmer has been honored for her research with the University Meets Microfinance Award. The outstanding section of her doctoral dissertation was also published as a DIW Discussion Paper in collaboration with Kati Krähnert, Head of Development and Security. Their research demonstrates that an index-based weather insurance can help households in developing countries, such as ...

    26.11.2015
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    Welcome Ceremony new cohort 2015

    On Monday night, 28 September, DIW president Marcel Fratzscher and the Dean of the Graduate Center Helmut Lütkepohl officially welcomed the 14 new PhD students. For the next four years they will pursue their PhD in Economics - the Graduate Center team wishes a successful start and an inspiring time at the DIW Berlin.

    02.10.2015
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    Doreen Triebe has sucessfully defended her dissertation

    Doreen Triebe sucessfully defended her dissertation on July 1st at TU Berlin. Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner and Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulate her on her success!

    11.08.2015
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    Clara Welteke granted FNA Scholarship

    Clara Welteke has been granted a scholarship from the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung (FNA) from September 2015 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates her on her success!

    15.07.2015
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    GC Summer Workshop 2015

    For the fourth time the Graduate Center Summer Workshop took place in the avendi Hotel at Griebnitz Lake in Potsdam from June 29th to July 1st 2015. One more time it turned out to be a big success for the participating students. During the three-day workshop, GC12 and GC13 doctoral students presented their current research and received feedback from their supervisors and peers. The workshop was well ...

    10.07.2015
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    Songül Tolan granted FNA Scholarship

    Songül Tolan has been granted a scholarship from the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung (FNA) from March 2015 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates her on her success!

    26.02.2015
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    Election of the new doctoral representatives 2015

    The Graduate Center is happy to announce that Marie LeMouel and Georg Camehl (both from the cohort of 2013) will be the new GC representatives for the year 2015. Their term will begin on February 1st. Helmut Lütkepohl, Dean of the Graduate Center, congratulates Marie and Georg for their election. At the same time he thanks Sarah Dahmann and Georg Camehl for serving as representatives during the ...

    30.01.2015
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    Matthias Kleiner, President of the Leibniz Association congratulates Graduates of the DIW Graduate Center

    Last Friday, twelve junior scientists received their certificates at the 2014 Commencement Ceremony of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). They were congratulated by the Dean of DIW Graduate Center, Helmut Lütkepohl, the Executive Board of the DIW Berlin, as well as Matthias Kleiner, President of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. In his speech, Mr. Kleiner emphasized ...

    07.01.2015
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    GC Application Procedure Started

    The link to the GC Online Application Form has been activated! From now on, the GC welcomes outstanding students from around the world to apply for our doctoral program. Please note the application deadline is March 31. If you have any inquiries concerning the application, please feel free to contact our colleague Nadin Gahrns (gradcenter@diw.de). We will inform candidates on interview appointments ...

    19.12.2014
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    GC Outreach in China

    In November 2014, Nils Saniter and Yun Cao visited 9 top faculties of economics in Beijing and Shanghai, China, to support the DIW Graduate Center become more well-known internationally. At world class universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University they presented the GC to audiences of interested graduate students. Moreover, the GC participated in a DAAD delegation of ...

    02.12.2014
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    Michael Weinhardt defended his Dissertation

    Michael Weinhardt sucessfully defended his dissertation "Der Einfluss von Werten auf die Berufswahl und die intergenerationale Transmission sozialer Ungleichheit - Mikroanalysen für Deutschland" on October 21st at FU Berlin. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp (SOEP) and Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulate him on his success!

    24.10.2014
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