People

Doctoral Students   PhD Representatives   Alumni   Supervisors   Lecturers   Coordinators

• Afroza Alam
  (Supervisor: Reint Gropp)
• Lara Aydin
  (Supervisor: Javier Miranda)
• Annika Backes
• Tommaso Bighelli
• Lars Brausewetter
  (Supervisor: Michael Koetter)
• Jonathan Deist
• Marius Fourné
  (Supervisor: Oliver Holtemöller)
• Sarah Fritz
  (Supervisors: Christoph Wunder, Florian Hoffmann)
• Alexandra Gutsch
  (Supervisors: Oliver Holtemöller, Roland Winkler)
• Mirja Hälbig
  (Supervisor: Steffen Müller)
• Nils Torben Hollandt
  (Supervisor: Steffen Müller)
• Aleksandr Kazakov
• Boris Kozyrev
• Lin Ma
• Isabella Müller
  (Supervisors: Michael Koetter, Felix Noth)
• William McShane
• Verena Plümpe
  (Supervisor: Steffen Müller)
• Alexander Reifschneider
• Alessandro Sardone
  (Supervisors: Oliver Holtemöller, Roland Winkler)
• Eleonora Sfrappini
  (Supervisors: Michael Koetter, Lena Tonzer)
• Anna Solms
  (Supervisor: Oliver Holtemöller)
• Ruben Staffa
• Sochima Uzonwanne
• Anna Zherdeva
• Hua Zhou
  (Supervisor: Reint Gropp)

• Annika Backes
• Alessandro Sardone

2022

Lisa Hölscher: "Hiring Behavior, Remuneration, and Employment Perspectives in newly Founded Establishments"

2021

Richard Bräuer: "Firm Level Drivers of Productivity Growth"
Postdoc, IWH

Hannes Böhm: "Four Essays on Financial Markets and Sovereign Risk: How the Euro Crisis, Commodities and Climate Change affect Countries' Financing Costs"
Validation for European Commodity Clearing AG, Leipzig, Germany

Antonios Mavropoulos: "Individual Housing Decisions, Mortgage Supply and Housing Market Regulations"
Research Economist, Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE), Athens, Greece 

Jan-Christopher Scherer: "The Role of Interdependencies Between the Micro and Macro Level in Explaining Investment Dynamics and its Determinants"
Postdoc, IWH

Christoph Schult: "The Role of Energy Markets and Expectations in Dynamic General Equilibrium Models"
Postdoc, IWH

Moritz Stieglitz: "Essays on Banking and Financial Markets"
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Konstantin Wagner: "How Labor Market Frictions Matter for Financial Decision Making"
Lucht Probst Associates GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2020

Chris Becker: "Essays in Financial Market Interventions"

Dmitri Bershadskyy: "The Effect of Communication on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence and Methodological Reflections"
Research Economist, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Faculty of Economics and Management, Chair of Economic Policy, Magdeburg, Germany

Stefan Gießler: "Three Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Financial Markets"

Matthias Mertens: "The Effects of International Product Market Competition and Demand on Firm Productivity and Labor Market Power"
Postdoc, IWH

Eva Weigt: "The Impacts of Structural Change on Workers"
Acceleration Manager, Silicon Castles GmbH, Puch-Salzburg, Austria

Matthias Wieschemeyer: "The Effects of Market Integration Policies on Labor and Capital Mobility"

2019

Aida Ćumurović: "Essays on Financial Literacy and Behavioral Economics"
Research Associate, Minimum Wage Commission, Berlin, Germany

Helge Littke: "Four Essays on Financial Market Institutions, Capital Allocation and Economic Uncertainty"

Simon Melch: "Essays on the Effects of Inter-Municipal Cooperation on Local Public Service Delivery"

Felix Pohle: "Labour Market Institutions and Employment"

Kirsten Schmidt: "Four Essays on Banking Regulation and Monetary Policy"
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2018

Geraldine Dany-Knedlik: "The Great Recession and Its Effects on Monetary Policy: From Policy Transmission to Target Dynamics"
Research Associate, Macroeconomics Department, DIW Berlin, Germany

Thomas Krause: "Four Essays on Financial Stability and the Housing Market"
Research Economist, Danmarks Nationalbank, Kopenhagen, Denmark

Carola Müller: "Four Essays on Financial Stability and Competition with Heterogeneous Banks"
Research Economist, Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), México

Oliver Rehbein:  "The Effects of Natural and Social Catastrophes on Financial Markets and the Real Economy"
Researcher/Lecturer, University of Bonn, Institute for Finance & Statistics, Germany

2017

Matias Ossandon Busch: "Four Essay on Banking Globalization and Financial Stability in Emerging Countries"
Senior Economist, Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), México

Konstantin Kiesel: "Preparing the Soil to Make Economic Growth Sustainable: Insights into Human Capital Environment and Policy Measures"
Speaker/Lecturer, Bildungszentrum der Bundeswehr, Berlin, Germany

Frieder Kropfhäußer: "Four Essays on the Association between Anthropometrics and Labor Market Outcomes"

2016

Manuel Buchholz: "Essays on the Stability and Regulation of International Financial Markets"
Economist, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Andrej Drygalla: "Monetary and Fiscal Policy Analyses in Estimated DSGE Models"
Postdoc, IWH

2013

Gregor von Schweinitz: "Modelling Macroeconomic Risk: The Genesis of the European Debt Crisis"
Assistant Professor of Economics, esp. Quantitative Macroeconomics, Leipzig University, Germany

Ufuk Akcigit

Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics at University of Chicago.
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Eric Bartelsman

Professor of Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and General Director at Tinbergen Institute.
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Liuchun Deng

Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.
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Stefan Eichler

Professor of International Monetary Economics at TU Dresden.
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Reint E. Gropp

IWH President and Professor of Economics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Michael Koetter

Professor of Financial Economics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Javier Miranda

Professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
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Huyen Nguyen

Assistant Professor of Financial Economics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
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Gregor von Schweinitz

Assistant Professor for Economics, esp. Quantitative Macroeconomics at Leipzig University.
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Lena Tonzer

Assistant Professor VU Amsterdam.
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Lecturers at CGDE Institutions

Guest Lecturers

IWH-Mediator

• Dr Axel Lindner

Programme Manager

• Dr Andrej Drygalla

Programme Director

• Professor Dr Oliver Holtemöller