Ph.D. Student of the
Macroeconomics Department
Gökhan Ider is a PhD 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 summer 2025, he will join the International Monetary Fund as part of the Fund Internship Program (FIP). His research interests include monetary and fiscal policy, international macroeconomics, and international finance.