Gökhan Ider

Gökhan Ider is a Doctoral student at the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center, and has been working in the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin since 2021. He completed both a Bachelor and Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering at University College London before pursuing an MSc in Economics at the University of Konstanz. During his master's studies at Konstanz, he was awarded the DAAD Prize for International Student of the Year in 2019 and received a Gifted Student Scholarship for academic excellence. He also worked as a research assistant to the Chair of Monetary Economics and the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics. His master's thesis focused on the impacts of external shocks on macroeconomic fluctuations in emerging market economies, using Bayesian VARs and identification with sign restrictions. In the summer of 2025, he worked in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund through the Fund Internship Program (FIP). His research interests include fiscal and monetary policy, financial markets, and international macroeconomics and finance.