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2024

Tommaso Bighelli: “The Contribution of Declining Corporate Taxes to Deindustrialization”

Eleonora Sfrappini: “Four Essays on Banking, Climate Risks and Financial Regulation”

2023

Ruben Staffa: "Investors' Beliefs and Politics: The Expectations of Sovereign Creditors and their Effects on Macroeconomic Outcomes"
DIW Berlin

Willam McShane: "The Competitive Effects of Financial Fragility"

Joschka Waibel: "Three Essays on Unethical Behavior: The Role of Generalized Reciprocity, Discrimination and Norms"
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

2022

Isabella Müller: "Essays in Financial Economics"
DIW Econ, Berlin

João Carlos Claudio: "Examining the Empirical Role of Expectations, Technology and Commodity Markets for the Macroeconomy"
German Council of Economic Experts, Wiesbaden

Talina Sondershaus: "Unintended Side Effects of Financial Market Interventions on Banks and Firms"
Lund University School for Economics and Management, Sweden

Georg Neuschäffer: "Essays on Firm Wage Differentials and Industrial Relations"
Preis-Engine für Datenanalysten About You, Hamburg

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

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, Magdeburg, Germany

Stefan Gießler: "Macroeconometric Analysis of Monetary Policy, Sovereign Risk and Commodity Prices"

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"
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

2019

Aida Ćumurović: "Essays on Financial Literacy and Behavioral Economics"
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Berlin 

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

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"
Head of Forecasting and Economic Policy of the 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"

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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Stefano Colonnello

Assistant Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
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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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Florian Hoffmann

Assistant Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.
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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 2024/2025).

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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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 2024/2025).

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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Christoph Wunder

Professor of Economics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
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Course: Econometrics
(winter term 2021/2022).

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IWH-Mediator

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