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    Jan Philip Fritsche has successfully defended his dissertation

    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

    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

    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

    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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    Application Portal for the GC PhD Program 2023 Is Now Open

    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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    Adrian Santonja receives the doctoral scholarship from the German Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU). Congratulations!

    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 defefended her dissertation

    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

    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
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    Jan Berkes has successfully defended his dissertation

    Jan Berkes has successfully defended his dissertation "Causes and Consequences of Educational Attainment and Household Decisions - Six Essays in Applied Microeconomics" supervised by Katharina Spieß (1st supervisor) and Lukas Menkhoff (2nd supervisor) at Free University Berlin. Congratulations!

    28.06.2021
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    Nuria Boot has successfully defended her dissertation

    Nuria Boot has successfully defended her dissertation "Essays on Common Ownership and Financial Benchmark Rates" supervised by Prof. Dr. Jo Seldeslachts at KU Leuven. Congratulations!

    23.06.2021
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    Catalina Martinez Hernandez has successfully defended her dissertation

    Catalina Martinez Hernandez has successfully defended her dissertation "Essays on Large Data Sets and Unbalanced Panels in Empirical Macroeconomics" supervised by Helmut Lütkepohl at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!

    23.06.2021
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    The Graduate Center is mourning Nedim Okan’s death

    Nedim Okan died on May 24, 2021, in Istanbul at the age of 31. Nedim was a doctoral student in the 2019 cohort at the BSE. After successfully completing his coursework at the DIW GC, he joined the WZB for his research phase. We are all overwhelmed by this terrible loss. Our thoughts are with his wife, his family and his friends. If you would like to have a personal conversation, you can contact the ...

    07.06.2021
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    Melissa Newham has successfully defended her dissertation

    Melissa Newham, who works at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the KU Leuven. The dissertation with the title "Essays on the Economics of the Pharmaceutical Industry" was supervised by Jo Seldeslachts (KU Leuven and DIW Berlin). We congratulate Melissa on her success and wish her all the best for her future career!

    28.04.2021
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    Maximilian Schäfer has successfully defefended his dissertation

    Maximilian Schäfer has successfully defended his dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin in November 2020. The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin, University of Copenhagen). Maximilian was a PhD student in the ...

    26.11.2020
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    Claire Samtleben has successfully defended her dissertation

    Claire Samtleben has successfully defended her dissertation "Care and Careers: Gender Differences in the Reconciliation of Work and Family" supervised by Anette Fasang and Jutta Allmendinger at Humboldt-Universität. Congratulations!

    10.11.2020
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    Felicitas Schikora has successfully defended her dissertation

    Felicitas Schikora has successfully defended her dissertation "The Economics Implications of Migration" supervised by Carsten Schröder (1st supervisor) and Panu Poutvaara (2nd supervisor) at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!

    10.11.2020
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    Caterina Forti Grazzini has successfully defended her dissertation

    Caterina Forti Grazzini has successfully defended her dissertation "Three Essays in Empirical Finance" supervised by Dieter Nautz (1st supervisor) and Alexander Kriwolutzsky (2nd supervisor) at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!

    10.11.2020
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    Puja Singhal has successfully defended her dissertation

    Puja Singhal has successfully defended her dissertation "Essays in Empirical Environmental Economics" supervised by Carsten Schröder (1st supervisor) and Peter Haan (2nd supervisor) at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!

    10.11.2020
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    Niels Aka has successfully defended his dissertation

    Niels Aka has successfully defended his dissertation "Three Essays on Model Selection in Time Series Econometrics: Model Averaging, Causal Graphs, and Structural Identification" supervised by Helmut Lütkepohl (1st supervisor) and Rolf Tschernig (2nd supervisor) at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!

    10.11.2020
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    Julio Fournier has successfully defended his dissertation

    Julio Fournier has successfully defended his dissertation "On the economic effects of natural disasters: Frontiers in applied spatial computable general equilibrium modeling" supervised by Hermann Lotze-Campen (1st supervisor) and Claudia Kemfert (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Congratulations!

    10.11.2020
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