People
Doctoral Students
Final-year Students
- Tommaso Bighelli: Doctoral thesis project: "Essays on Firms and Market Performance in the Global Economy"
personal website - William McShane: Doctoral thesis project: "The Competitive Effects of Financial Fragility"
Junior Students
- Afroza Alam: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Annika Backes: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Lars Brausewetter: Doctoral thesis project:
- Jonathan Deist: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Sarah Fritz: Doctoral thesis project: "Evaluation of Subsidy Programmes"
- Alexandra Gutsch: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Marius Fourné: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Mirja Hälbig: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Nils Torben Hollandt: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Lara Aydin: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Lin Ma: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Aleksandr Kazakov: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Boris Kozyrev: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Verena Plümpe: Doctoral thesis project: "Automation and Labour Market Outcomes"
- Alexander Reifschneider: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Alessandro Sardone: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Eleonora Sfrappini: Doctoral thesis project: "Essays in Financial Economics and Financial Stability”
- 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?"
- Sithara Thies: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Sochima Uzonwanne: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Anna Zherdeva: Doctoral thesis project: tba
- Hua Zhou: Doctoral thesis project: tba
PhD Representatives
Alumni
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, Spanish
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, Spanish
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
Supervisors
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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Oliver Holtemöller
Professor of Economics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
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Course: Macroeconomics
(summer term 2022).
Sabrina Jeworrek
Assistant Professor of Applied Microeconometrics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Course: Econometrics
(winter term 2021/2022).
Michael Koetter
Professor of Financial Economics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Steffen Müller
Professor of Economics (Productivity and Innovations) at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Course: Econometrics
(winter term 2020/2021).
Huyen Nguyen
Assistant Professor of Financial Economics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
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Felix Noth
Professor for Banking and Financial Systems at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Course: Econometrics
(winter term 2021/2022).
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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