Members & Research
Doctoral Students
- Afroza Alam; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Alexandra Gutsch; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Annika Backes; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Tommaso Bighelli; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Hannes Böhm; Doctoral thesis project: "The Role of Idiosyncratic an Systematic Bank Risks during the Euro Crisis - Do Monetary Policy and Political Reforms Matter?"
- Richard Bräuer; Doctoral thesis project: "Firm Level Drivers of Productivity Growth"
- João Carlos Claudio; Doctoral thesis project: "Three Essays on Macroprudential Regulation and the Macroeconomy"
- Sarah Fritz; Doctoral thesis project: Evaluation of Subsidy Programmes
- Michael Ghisletti; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Mirja Hälbig; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Lisa Hölscher; Doctoral thesis project: "Workforce Composition, Employment Prospects, and Wages in Newly Founded Firms"
- Aleksandr Kazakov; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Antonios Mavropoulos; Doctoral thesis project: "Individual Housing Decisions, Mortgage Supply and Housing Market Regulations"
- William McShane; Doctoral thesis project: "The Competitive Effects of Financial Fragility"
- Isabella Müller; Doctoral thesis project: "Trade Shocks and Financial Systems’ Resilience"
- Georg Neuschäffer; Doctoral thesis project: "Productivity and Inequality"
- Verena Plümpe; Doctoral thesis project: "Automation and Labour Market Outcomes"
- Adrian Rodriguez; Doctoral thesis project: "Value Chain Lengths in a Globalized World"
- Jan-Christopher Scherer; Doctoral thesis project: "Aggregate Investment Behaviour under Endogenous Capital Adjustment Decisions"
- Alessandro Sardone; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Christoph Schult; Doctoral thesis project: "The Role of Energy Markets and Expectations in Dynamic General Equilibrium Models"
- Eleonora Sfrappini; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Talina Sondershaus; Doctoral thesis project: "Unconventional Monetary Policy, Banks, and the Real Economy"
- Ruben Staffa; Doctoral thesis project: "Developments During the Sovereign Debt Crisis: What Can We Learn from Textual Analysis?"
- Moritz Stieglitz; Doctoral thesis project: "Essays on Banking and Financial Markets"
- Konstantin Wagner; Doctoral thesis project: "Essays on Compensation, Wages and Human Capital"
- Joschka Waibel; Doctoral thesis project: "Essays on Unethical Workplace Behaviour"
- Eva Weigt; Doctoral thesis project: "Essays in Empirical Labour Economics"
- Matthias Wieschemeyer; Doctoral thesis project: "The Effects of Market Integration Policies on Labor and Capital Mobility"
- Anna Zherdeva; Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Hua Zhou; Doctoral thesis project: tba
Professors
- Professor Claudia M. Buch (Deutsche Bundesbank and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
- Professor Stefano Colonnello, PhD (IWH and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
- Professor Stefan Eichler (IWH and TU Dresden)
- Professor Michael Fritsch (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, DIW, IWH and Max Planck Institute for Economics)
- Professor Reint E. Gropp, PhD (IWH and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
- Professor Oliver Holtemöller (IWH and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
- Professor Michael Koetter (IWH and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
- Professor Alexander Kriwoluzky (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and DIW)
- Professor Dr Steffen Müller (IWH and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
- Professor Dr Felix Noth (IWH and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
- Professor Dr Gregor von Schweinitz (IWH and Leipzig University)
- Professor Bernd Süßmuth (Leipzig University)
- Professor Lena Tonzer, PhD (IWH and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Supervisors
- Dr Daniel Fackler (IWH)
- Dr Katja Heinisch (IWH)
- Dr Axel Lindner (IWH)
- Dr Viktor Slavtchev (IWH)
Spokesperson of Doctoral Students
IWH Mediator
Programme Manager
Programme Director
Completed Dissertations
- Stefan Gießler; Doctoral thesis project: "Three Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Financial Markets"
- Dmitri Bershadskyy; Doctoral thesis project: "Experimental Analysis of the Relationship between Institution Stability and Population Heterogeneity" (2020)
- Matthias Mertens: "The Effects of International Product Market Competition and Demand on Firm Productivity and Labor Market Power" (2020)
- Felix Pohle: "Essays on Quantitative Macroeconomics of Labour Markets"
- Kirsten Schmidt: "Four Essays on Banking Regulation and Monetary Policy"
- Aida Ćumurović: "Essays on Behavioral Economics"
- Chris Becker: "Essays in Financial Market Intervention"
- Simon Melch: "Essays on the Effects of Inter-Municipal Cooperation on Local Public Service Delivery"
- Helge Littke: "Central Bank Transparency and Financial Market Interaction" (2019)
- Oliver Rehbein: "The Effects of Natural and Social Catastrophes on Financial Markets and the Real Economy" (2018)
- Geraldine Dany-Knedlik: "The Great Recession and Its Effects on Monetary Policy: From Policy Transmission to Target Dynamics" (2018)
- Carola Müller: "Four Essays on Financial Stability and Competition with Heterogeneous Banks" (2018)
- Thomas Krause: "Financial Stability and the Housing Market" (2018)
- Konstantin Kiesel: "Preparing the Soil to Make Economic Growth Sustainable: Insights into Human Capital Environment and Policy Measures" (2017)
- Frieder Kropfhäußer: "Four Essays on the Association between Anthropometrics and Labor Market Outcomes" (2017)
- Matias Ossandon Busch: "Financial Globalization and Multinational Banks in Emerging Countries: The Latin American Experience" (2017)
- Manuel Buchholz: "Essays on the Stability and Regulation of International Financial Markets" (2016)
- Andrej Drygalla: "Monetary and Fiscal Policy Analyses in Estimated DSGE Models" (2016)
- Gregor von Schweinitz: "Modelling Macroeconomic Risk: The Genesis of the European Debt Crisis" (2013)
IWH Research Seminar Series
The IWH Research Seminar in Economics takes place on a Monday, 2:15 – 3:45 pm, during the lecture period.
