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 the Principal Investigator and Study Coordinator of 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...
Principal Investigator & Coordinator 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 is a Research Associate in the Department of Macroeconomics and head of the global economic projections in the Departments of Forecasting. After studying economics at the University of Nottingham, she joined the IWH Doctoral Program in Economics in 2012. During her doctorate, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik spent time at the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank....
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...
Stephanie joined the DIW Berlin and the DIW Berlin Graduate Center in October 2018. After completing her bachelor studies in Anthropology (University Leipzig) and Political Science (Sciences Po Grenoble), Stephanie discovered her interest for Economics. She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. For her dissertation on monetary policy shocks she...
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.
Research Project Coordinator Third Party Fund Management
Björn Fischer is currently a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center. After his studies of Politics and Economics at the University of Münster he gained his M.Sc degree in Public Economics at FU in Berlin. In his thesis he accessed the causal effect of retirement behavior on informal care provision in Germany using a fuzzy RDD design on SOEP data. During his time in Berlin he worked as a...
