Sonali Chowdhry is Research Associate in the Department Firms and Markets. She is an economist specialising in international trade and firm heterogeneity. Her research examines the reallocation effects of trade policy shocks using detailed firm-level customs databases. Alongside academic research, Sonali has contributed to numerous policy studies on mega-regional trade agreements and served as an...
Claudia Cohnen-Beck has been editor at DIW Berlin since July 2017 and is responsible for the DIW Weekly Report and DIW aktuell as well as for press inquiries, guest comments and statements. Since April 2021 she has been a member of the DIW Weekly Report editorial board. Previously, she was editor at several daily newspapers.
Dr. Carina Cornesse is Head of the Innovation Sample as well as the Social Cohesion Panel (SOEP-related study ZHP-FGZ) at the SOEP. She conducts research on data quality and innovative data collection techniques in surveys. Her research focuses on the recruitment and maintenance of panel studies, the benefits and limitations of probability-based and nonprobability samples, the application of mixed...
Head of SOEP Innovation Sample & Social Cohesion Panel German Socio-Economic Panel study
Astrid Cullmann is senior researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment. Her research deals with productivity and regulation of public sector firms. She focuses on municipal state-owned firms in the energy and water sector. Astrid is also Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Econometrics and Business Statistics at TU Berlin. She studied Economics at Free University Berlin and...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Geraldine Dany-Knedlik heads the team of forecasting and economic policy at the DIW Berlin together with Timm Bönke. Geraldine Dany-Knedlik's expertise lies in the areas of international macroeconomics and monetary policy. Special thematic focuses are inflation and monetary policy, spillovers of monetary policy, and the interactions between the business cycles and cycles of income and wealth...
Co-Head Macroeconomics; Co-Head Forecasting and Economic Policy
Jascha Dräger is research associate at the Research Data Centre of the SOEP. He studied sociology in Kassel and Mannheim and received his PhD in Sociology from University of Mannheim in 2022. His main research interests are social stratification and inequalities in education.
Research Associate German Socio-Economic Panel study
Tomaso Duso is Head of the Firms and Markets Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), a professor of empirical industrial economics at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, and the spokesperson of the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP).
He is a member of the Monopolies Commission and of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) of the...
Kerstin joined DIW Berlin in October 2010. Prior to working for DIW Berlin, she worked at the Deutsche Post DHL Group in Bonn, at the Amerika Haus in Cologne and at the American Academy in Berlin.
Kerstin received her Magister in North American Studies and English Philology from Freie Universität Berlin. During her studies, she spent one year as an exchange student in the USA.
Marcel Fratzscher is a researcher, author, and columnist on economic and socio-political topics, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and Professor of Macroeconomics at Humboldt University Berlin. Among other things, he is a member of the United Nations High-level Advisory Board on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a member of the Advisory Board of the...
