People
Doctoral Students
- Afroza Alam
(Supervisor: Reint Gropp) - Julian Andres Diaz Acosta
(Supervisor: Javier Miranda) - Annika Backes
(Supervisors: Simon Wiederhold, Christoph Wunder) - Mete Can
(Supervisor: Javier Miranda) - Jonathan Deist
(Supervisor: Steffen Müller) - Arsène Buzima Dunia
(Supervisors: Michael Koetter, Felix Noth) - Marius Fourné
(Supervisors: Oliver Holtemöller, Xiang Li) - 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) - Onur Can Karabulut
(Supervisor: Javier Miranda) - Aleksandr Kazakov
(Supervisors: Michael Koetter, Lena Tonzer) - Boris Kozyrev
(Supervisors: Oliver Holtemöller, Malte Rieth) - Lin Ma
(Supervisor: Daniel Streitz) - Sukanya Mukherjee
(Supervisor: Oliver Holtemöller) - Verena Plümpe
(Supervisor: Steffen Müller) - Johanna Raith
(Supervisor: Simon Wiederhold) - Madalina Gabriela Patru
(Supervisor: Lena Tonzer) - Sebastian Reinartz
(Supervisor: Simon Wiederhold) - Alexander Reifschneider
(Supervisor: Reint Gropp) - Lotte Rothschild
(Supervisor: tba) - Alessandro Sardone
(Supervisors: Oliver Holtemöller, Roland Winkler) - Hendrik Schub
(Supervisors: Melina Ludolph, Michael Koetter) - Anna Solms
(Supervisor: Oliver Holtemöller) - Sochima Uzonwanne
(Supervisors: Michael Koetter, Huyen Nguyen) - Jiamin Wang
(Supvervisor: Javier Miranda) - Birte Winter
(Supervisor: Fabian Wöbbeking) - Anna Zherdeva
(Supervisor: tba) - Hua Zhou
(Supervisors: Reint Gropp, Merih Sevilir)
PhD Representatives
Alumni
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"
Willam McShane: "The Competitive Effects of Financial Fragility"
Joschka Waibel: "Three Essays on Unethical Behavior: The Role of Generalized Reciprocity, Discrimination and Norms"
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"
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: "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"
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"
DIW Berlin
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
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"
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"
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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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).