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.
Guido Baldi joined DIW Berlin in 2012. He holds a phd in economics from the University of Bern. His main research interests lie in "international macroeconomics" and "political economy".
Mara Barschkett is a PhD student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and a research associate at the Department of Public Economics. Her research interests are health economics, labour economics and early education as well as the intersection of those fields. Mara obtained her B.Sc. in Economics at the University of Bonn and spent one exchange year at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,...
Rainer Bartholdt has been Director of the Research Infrastructure Department at DIW Berlin since March 2022. In the past, he has held various positions in the business world as an IT consultant and in corporate IT management, focusing on IT infrastructure, ERP systems, and IT security. Rainer Bartholdt studied computer science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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...
Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Scholarship Recipient Public Economics
Sophie M. Behr joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2021. Her research interests lie in climate economics and policy, and particularly include circular economy and carbon pricing. Sophie holds a BSc in Economics from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a MSc in Economics from the University of Hamburg and spent parts of her studies at the University of Bologna,...
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Bernoth is Deputy Head of the Department Macroeconomics and Vice Dean of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn and worked from 2004 to 2009 as a researcher in the economic policy and research department of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Central Bank of the Netherlands. Her research interests...
Deputy Head of Department Macroeconomics; Vice Dean of Graduate Studies Graduate Center
