Dr. Ruben Staffa
Research Associate of the Macroeconomics Department
Research Associate of Forecasting and Economic Policy
Research Topics and Working Areas
Ruben Staffa is a researcher in the Macroeconomics Department, where he is responsible for data infrastructure and data preparation in the forecasting unit at DIW Berlin. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the Free University Berlin and his master's degree in money and finance from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. At the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) he worked for more than four years as a research assistant in economic forecasting. His research focuses in particular on the economic effects of sovereign risk and the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy.