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)

• 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)
    

• 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.   
  
  • Economics Working Paper 2012-08, Department of Economics, Kiel University, September 2012 (PDF)
  • Extended Version / Technical Appendix of  Economics Working Paper 2012-08, August 2012 (PDF)
• Estimating a High-Frequency New-Keynesian Phillips Curve (with S. Ahrens), Empirical Economics , Vol. 46(2), pp. 607-628, March 2014. 
  • Kiel Working Paper 1686, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, March 2012 (PDF)
  • Economics Working Paper 2011-08, Department of Economics, Kiel University, September 2011 (PDF)

• 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
    

• 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)
  • Kiel Working Paper 1798, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, October 2012 (PDF)
  • Economics Working Paper 2012-12, Department of Economics, Kiel University, October 2012 (PDF)

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