Carl is a PhD candidate in the Firms and Markets Department, specializing in empirical industrial organization. His current research combines applied econometrics, natural language processing, and large language models to detect anti-competitive behavior in firms’ communication patterns, analyze enforcement and market data, and improve empirical cartel screening methodologies used by competition...
Alexander Kritikos is scientific member of the executive board of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since May 2021 and Head of the research group on ‘Entrepreneurship’ since 2011. He is appointed as Full Professor for Industrial and Institutional Economics at the University of Potsdam, and Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn.
Alexander...
Member of the Executive Board Executive Board; Head Entrepreneurship
He investigates the effects of monetary and fiscal policy on the economy, including their impact on private and public interest rates, gross domestic product, and inflation. A central focus of his work is the interaction between these two policy areas. In doing so, he explicitly accounts for household heterogeneity and the role of economic inequality in shaping the transmission of monetary and...
Dr. Thilo Kroeger is an economist and scientific advisor in the Firms and Markets Department. His research focuses on international economics, labor economics, and development economics. More specifically, he studies producer-level responses to globalization and the effects of structural change on labor demand and workers. Before joining DIW Berlin, he was a senior economist on the scientific...
Researcher Firms and Markets; Scientific Advisor Firms and Markets
Yashna is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2025. She holds an MSc degree in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Delhi. Her research interests lie in climate policy and environmental economics.
Jo-Ya joined the DIW Graduate Center and the macroeconomics department in 2023. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mainz with a specialization in International Economics. Her master’s thesis examined the policy implications and potential risks of introducing central bank digital currencies. In 2023, she interned at the ifo Center for International Economics in Munich....
Frederik Kurcz is a doctoral student at the Macroeconomics Department and at the Berlin School of Economics (Freie Universität Berlin). His research studies monetary and fiscal policy transmission with household heterogeneity. His job market paper, “Quantifying the Fiscal Channel of Monetary Policy,” combines new evidence on fiscal responses to monetary shocks with a Heterogeneous Agent New...
Ph.D. Student Macroeconomics; Ph.D. Student Forecasting and Economic Policy
Antonia Kurz is a Research Associate in the Climate Policy Department. Her research focuses on the decarbonisation of industrial sectors, developing tools to reduce emissions in the context of trade and market power. Her work includes studying the effects of carbon pricing policies on trade patterns and the implications of monopolistic supply in critical minerals markets for the green transition....
Philipp Lersch is Associate Professor of Sociology of Social Policy in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and research group leader at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His main research interests are in social inequalities over and between life courses of individuals in divergent institutional contexts focusing on the family, wealth, and...
Head Life Course and Inequality; Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study
assessor juris (Esq.) - doctoral thesis re German Constitutional Law and cultural responsibilities of the State LL.M. at Boston Univ. (USA) former experience: Berlin media law firm - legal employee at the Hessische Rundfunk (public broadcaster) in Frankfurt am Main - scientific employee at the Brunswick European Law School at the Ostfalia in Brunswick/Wolfenbuettel and at the Institute for...
Heike Link is Head of the Transportation Research Team. She joined DIW in 1992 after studies in Mathematical Economics and a PhD thesis on dynamic input-output models. Her research interest is the econometric analysis of issues mainly in transport infrastructure. Heike has been in charge for a variety of national and international research and consultancy projects on infrastructure issues, the...
Head of Division Energy, Transportation, Environment
Lotte Maaßen is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Her research interests are in the area of wealth and income inequality. Current research projects focus on the role of inheritances and parental background for the distribution of wealth in Germany and on gender gaps in capital incomes. Lotte has a master's degree in economics from Freie Universität...
Marianna Magagnoli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) since September 2025. She holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB). Her research lies at the intersection of urban, transport, and environmental economics. In particular, she studies the implications of improving environmental friendliness in cities on real...
