Dr. Ben Schumann

Ben studied at the Free University of Berlin, where he also finished his PhD om 2025 while also being a member of the DIW GC. He subsequently joined the macroeconomics department of DIW as a postdoctoral researcher. During his studies Ben has worked at the European Central Bank, the European Parliament and the German Minimum Wage Commission. His research interests lie in the field of monetary and international macroeconomics, where he employes state-of-the-art empirical and theoretical models to estimate the causal effects of policy interventions.