Profile
Visiting Hours: by appointment
Activities & Education
Deputy Director of the Institute for Regional Research Deputy Chair of International and Regional Economics |
Kiel University |
Dr. sc. pol. (Ph.D. in Economics) | Kiel University |
Former Member of the Research Area "Macroeconomic Policy under Market Imperfections" |
Kiel Institute for the World Economy |
Graduate of the "Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research" |
Kiel Institute for the World Economy |
Diploma Degree in Economics | Kiel University |
Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Economics (Focus on Economic Theory and Econometrics) |
Kiel University Jönköping University (Sweden) |
Doctoral Thesis
- High-Frequency Analysis and Moment-Matching Estimation of the Baseline New-Keynesian Model, Kiel University (International Doctoral Programme "Quantitative Economics"), February 2014. Advisors: Hans-Werner Wohltmann and Maik Wolters. Overall Grade: Summa Cum Laude PDF
- Awarded with the Science Prize 2015 of Deutsche Bundesbank
- Awarded with the Erich-Schneider-Prize 2015 of Department of Economics at Kiel University
Publications
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Animal Spirits and the Business Cycle: Empirical Evidence from Moment Matching (with T.-S. Jang), Metroeconomica, Vol. 67(1), pp. 76-133, February 2016.
- Economics Working Paper 2014-06, Department of Economics, Kiel University, May 2014 (PDF)
- Economics Working Paper 2014-06, Department of Economics, Kiel University, May 2014 (PDF)
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On the Efficiency of Labor Market Reforms: How to Solve the Spanish Puzzle?, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 9 (2015-44), pp. 1-29, December 2015.
- Moment Matching versus Bayesian Estimation: Backward-Looking Behaviour in the New-Keynesian Baseline Model (with R. Franke and T.-S. Jang), The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 31, pp. 126-154, January 2015.
- Estimating a High-Frequency New-Keynesian Phillips Curve (with S. Ahrens), Empirical Economics , Vol. 46(2), pp. 607-628, March 2014.
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Some Observations in the High-Frequency Versions of a Standard New-Keynesian Model (with R. Franke), Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 66(1), pp. 72-94, January 2014.
- Economics Working Paper 2010-01, Department of Economics, Kiel University, February 2010
PDF(WP) | mod-file: Impulse Response Functions | mod-file: Robustness Check
- Economics Working Paper 2010-01, Department of Economics, Kiel University, February 2010
Working Papers
- Analysis of Various Shocks within the High-Frequency Versions of the Baseline New-Keynesian Model
- Economics Working Paper 2014-02, Department of Economics, Kiel University, February 2014 (PDF)
- Optimal Monetary Policy Responses and Welfare Analysis within the High-Frequency New-Keynesian Framework
- Economics Working Paper 2014-03, Department of Economics, Kiel University, February 2014 (PDF)
- Identification of Prior Information via Moment-Matching
- Economics Working Paper 2014-04, Department of Economics, Kiel University, February 2014 (PDF)
- Identification of Animal Spirits in a Bounded Rationality Model: An Application to the Euro Area (with T.-S. Jang)
Policy Papers
- Entrepreneurship, Youth Unemployment and Macroeconomic Policy: Lessons from Korea and Spain (with T.-S. Jang), Koreanische Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Vol. 33(2), pp. 1-22, June 2015. (PDF).
Grants and Awards
- Laureate of the Science Award 2015 of Deutsche Bundesbank for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
- Laureate of the Erich-Schneider Prize 2015 for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
- Laureate of the Graduate Student Best Paper Award 2012 of the Society of Computational Economics
- Travel Grant by the U.S. National Science Foundation 2011
(Presentation at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken/New Jersey))- Möller Fund Travel Grant 2010, 2011 and 2012
Current Teaching
- Lecture on Economic Growth
- Lecture on Advanced Topics in Public Economics: Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Dynamics
- Tutorial on Open Economy Macroeconomics (Stabilisierungspolitik)
Public Relation
- Interview with the German radio station NDR 1 - Welle Nord on the topic 'Abolition of Euro Coins' Stream (in German only)
Conferences and Workshops
- Invited Speaker at the 2nd Annual Global Congress of Knowledge Economy 2015 (GCKE 2015), Qingdao (China), 13.-15. November 2015
- Presentation at the 1st Workshop on (Youth) Unemployment in Europe, Viadrina European University (Germany), 16.-17. April 2015
- Presentation at the Christmas Meetings of the German Economists Abroad, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 21.-22. December 2014
- Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Germany), 7.-10. September 2014
- Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), University of Düsseldorf (Germany), 4.-7. September 2013 (Chairman of the self-organized conference session on 'Moment-Matching: Applications of an Alternative Estimation Approach in Macroeconomics')
- Presentation at the SCE 19th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Vancouver (Canada), 10.-12. July 2013
- Presentation at the Conference 'The State of Economics after the Crisis', Macroeconomic Policy Insitute (IMK) at the Hans-Boeckler-Foundation, Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), Berlin, 25.-27. October 2012
- Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), University of Göttingen (Germany), 9.-12. September 2012
- Presentation at the SCE 18th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Prague (Czech Republic), 27.-29. June 2012
- Presentation at the 17th Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), ZEW Mannheim, 26.-28. April 2012
(Chairman of the conference session on 'Business Cycles III') - Presentation at the Macroeconometric Workshop, DIW Berlin, 2.-3. December 2011
- Presentation at the Conference: Modeling High Frequency Data in Finance III, Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken/New Jersey/USA), 28.-31. July 2011
- Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), University of Lucerne (Switzerland), 9.-10. June 2011 (Chairman of the conference session on 'Macroeconomics I')
- Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), University of Kiel (Germany), 7.-10. September 2010
- Presentation at the 25th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), University of Glasgow (UK), 23.-26. August 2010 (Chairman of the conference session on 'Preferences and Decision Making')
- Presentation at the SCE 16th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, City University London (UK), 15.-18. July 2010
- Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), University of Fribourg (Switzerland), 24.-25. June 2010 (Chairman of the conference session on 'Monetary Macroeconomics II')
- Participation at the 2. 'Global Economic Symposium', Plön, 9.-11. September 2009
- Participation at the Workshop 'Dynare Summer School', Bank of France/CEPREMAP (Paris), 22.-26. June 2009
- Participation at the EES Kick-off Workshop 'The Labor Market and the Business Cycle', IfW Kiel, 5.-7. March 2009
- Participation at the 3. Workshop 'Konjunktur und Makroökonomik', ifo Dresden, 20.-21. November 2008
- Participation at the 1. 'Global Economic Symposium', Plön, 4.-5. September 2008
Reviewer Activity
Memberships
- Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN)
- European Economic Association (EEA)
- German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik)
- Koreanisch Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
- Society for Computational Economics (SCE)