Faculty

Chair of Corporate Finance, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Professor Adam obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Before joining Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Fall 2008, he held positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Sloan School of Management (MIT), and the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the area of corporate risk management and has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Banking and Finance among others.

Prof. Özlem Bedre-Defolie received her PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) in Toulouse, France and also holds a MSc in Economic Theory and Econometrics from TSE. In 2009 she was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at École Polytechnique, Department of Economics, in Palaiseau, France. Prof. Bedre-Defolie's research interests are mainly topics in industrial economics, competition policy and regulation. In particular, game theoretic models of contractual relationships between vertically related firms, antitrust issues related to buyer power of some retailers vis-à-vis their suppliers, optimal pricing strategies and efficient trade mechanisms in platform markets, e.g., the payment card industry.

Chair of Microeconomic Theory at Free University Berlin ,
Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London.

Professor Bester's research interests are in the area of Applied Microeconomics. The focus is on applications of game theory and information economics to problems in the theory of industrial organisation and contract theory. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and others.

Professor of Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London; CES-Ifo (Munich) and IZA (Bonn)

Michael Burda studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA and received his PhD there in 1987. His research, which most often lies on the boundaries between labor and macroeconomics, has appeared in the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and others. With Charles Wyplosz, he is the author of Macroeconomics: A European Text, now in its fifth edition and translated into 13 languages. In 1998 he was awarded the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik.

Chair of Public Finance and Social Policy, Free University of Berlin
Research Fellow of Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn,
Member of the history of economic theories commission of the Verein fur Socialpolitik

Irwin Collier studied economics at Yale University (BA) and at M.I.T. (PhD). Before coming to the Freie Universitat Berlin in 1994, he taught at the University of Houston (USA), at CERGE in Prague and Seoul National University in Korea. Irwin Collier's articles have been published in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economica, Journal of Comparative Economics. His research interests include the economic theory behind economic index numbers, the economic reconstruction of post-wall Eastern Germany, and the political economy of social welfare reform.

Chair of Econometrics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Bernd Droge studied Mathematics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he received his PhD in 1983 and his Habilitation in 2004. His research interests are in the area of theoretical and applied statistics and econometrics, including statistical decision theory, model selection and panel cointegration analysis. He has published articles in the Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Econometrics Journal, Statistics, Technometrics, and others.

Junior-Professor for Macro and Financial Markets, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Monique Ebell's current research interests are in the area of product market regulations and their impact on labour markets and innovations.

Institute of Accounting and Auditing, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Joachim Gassen holds the chair for financial accounting and auditing at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After studying Economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster he earned his doctoral degree from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Before joining Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and was a visiting scholar at New York University and University of Wisconsin – Madison. His research focuses on international accounting and the impact of accounting information on capital markets and corporate finance and governance decisions, won several academic awards and is being published in leading international journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research and the European Accounting Review. He serves on the editorial board for the European Accounting Review, Business Research, Review of Managerial Science and Die Betriebswirtschaft.

Post-doctoral research fellow WZB Berlin

Dr. Geys (1977) studied Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leicester University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he obtained his PhD in economics in May 2004. Before joining the WZB Berlin in October 2005, he was associated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His predominantly empirical research activities focus on (local) government performance and policy formation, intergovernmental relations and civic engagement and has appeared in, e.g., Journal of Urban Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, British Journal of Sociology and Social Science Quarterly.

Chair of Statistics, Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Born 1953, Wolfang Härdle holds the chair for statistics since 1992. He is director of a DFG financed special research program on the quantification and simulation of economic processes. His research covers discrete choice models, statistic modelling of financial markets and computer based statistics. Recent works deal with models of implicit volatilities and statistical analysis of financial risk.

Chair of Econometrics, Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Coordinator of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science
Research Fellow Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt
Research Professor at the University of Copenhagen

Professor Hautsch graduated at the University of Konstanz in 2003. Before coming to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2007, he was Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests are in the area of financial econometrics, covering econometric methods for financial high-frequency data, empirical market microstructure analysis, volatility modelling as well as asset pricing. His articles appeared in journals like the Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and others.

Lufthansa Chair in Competition and Regulation, ESMT

Paul Heidhues joined ESMT European School of Management and Technology in September 2010. Before joining ESMT, Paul was an associate professor for Economic Theory at Bonn Universität from 2005 to 2010 and a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) from 1999 to 2005. He received his Habilitation from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2005 and his PhD in Economics from Rice University, Houston, Texas in 2000. Paul's research interests lie in the area of (Behavioral) Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, Behavioral Economics, and (Applied) Game Theory. His articles have been accepted for publication in the American Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, and others.

Chair for Macroeconomics, Technical University Berlin

Frank Heinemann earned his doctoral degree 1996 in Mannheim. He was teaching in Frankfurt am Main, Mannheim and Munich, before he became Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Technology in Berlin. His major interests are monetary macroeconomics, financial crises, and coordination games. He research consists of theoretical analysis and laboratory experiments and has been published in Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, JITE, and others.

Heinz-Nixdorf Chair for Management Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Franz Hubert received his Doctoral Degree from the Free University in Berlin. His research interests cover industrial organization, real estate, corporate finance and investment. Recently he worked on reforms of power industries and strategic investment in network industries. His research was published in JITE, Regional Studies & Urban Economics, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Swedish Economic Policy Review and others.

Institute for Competition Policy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Professor Kamecke's research interests are in the area of industrial organization, competition policy, matching markets. His articles have appeared in the Economic Journal, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics,Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and others.

Professor of Microeconomics, Technical University Berlin

Dorothea Kübler's research interests are in the areas of experimental economics, economics and psychology, as well as applied microeconomics such as industrial organization, labour contracts and law and economics. Recently, she has studied rational herding in theory and in experiments. She is currently working on strategic uncertainty in games such as signalling games, voting games and normal form games. She has published articles in Review of Economic Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Labour Economics, and others.

Free University of Berlin

Johannes Münster is Junior Professor at the Free University of Berlin. His research interests are in microeconomics and in political economy. His research has been published in Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory, Journal of Economics and Management Science, Public Choice, and other refereed journals.

Junior Professor for Applied Econometrics, Freie Universität Berlin

Christian Offermanns studied Economics in Duisburg. He holds a PhD in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests include macro and panel data econometrics as well as international macroeconomics, in particular monetary and exchange rate economics and macroeconomic issues in international finance.

Assistant Professor for Statistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Ostap Okhrin, born 1984 in Lviv, Ukraine, is an Assistant Professor at the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics at the Department of Economics and Business Administration at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since April 2008. He finished his PhD at the European University Viadrina in 2007. His research interests are multivariate distributions, estimation and multivariate model selection, copula based distributions. His most recent works are dealing with the modelling of credit risk and the statistical analysis of financial risk.

President of the European School of Management and Technology ESMT
International Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London
Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London; CES-Ifo (Munich) and IZA (Bonn)

Professor Röller's research interests are in the area of Industrial Organization with special interest in models of heterogeneous firm behavior, market structure and competition policy. More specifically, his interests lie in the area of empirical industrial organization, developing structural econometric models of market and cost characteristics and their implications for policy and strategy. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Economic Policy, Economic Journal, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and others. In 2002, Röller was awarded the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik.

Assistant Professor Econometrics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Oberwolfach Leibniz Graduate Fellow

Melanie Schienle studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Karlsruhe and Toronto. She holds a PhD in Economics from Mannheim University. Her research interest are in the area of econometric theory, especially nonparametric estimation techniques in time series and dimension reduction methods.

Professor of Applied Microeconomics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Alexandra Spitz-Oener holds a PhD in Economics from Mannheim University. Her research interest are in the area of labor economics, and applied microeconomics. Her articles appeared in journals like Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics and others.

Professor of Economics, Freie Universität Berlin
Chair of Empirical Economics (FUB) Berlin
Research Fellow Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn

Professor Steiner's research interests are in the area of Applied Microeconometrics, in particular in Public Economics and Labor Economics. More specifically, his interests lie in the development and application of microeconometric and microsimulation models for the empirical analyses of the allocation and distribution effects of economic policies. Examples include tax reforms, disincentive effects of the welfare state, active labor market programs, education and training programs. His articles have appeared in journals like the Review of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Labour Economics, the German Economic Review, and others.

Microeconomic Theory, Heisenberg Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Professor Strausz' research interests lie in the area of Applied Microeconomics with a focus on economic settings with asymmetric information. His recent work covers topics in contract theory, optimal organizational design, regulation and product certification. His contributions have appeared in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, and others.

Professor for Economic Policy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Lutz Weinke received his PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) in 2005. His research in the field of monetary economics has appeared in the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the International Journal of Central Banking.

Chair in Econometrics and Business Statistics, Technische Universität Berlin

Axel Werwatz studied economics in Frankfurt, Berlin and Iowa City where he received his PhD in 1997. Before joining the Technische Universität Berlin in 2007 he worked at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DIW Berlin, Universität Potsdam and Aarhus Universitet in Denmark. He specializes in applied econometrics and has collaborated with researchers from various fields, including labor economics, real estate economics and epidemiology. His research was published in the Journal of Labor economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, the American Journal of Epidemiology and others.

Chair of Microeconomic Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Fellow at CESifo, Munich

Professor Wolfstetter's research interests are in the area of applied microeconomics, especially: auctions and market design, industrial organization, contract theory. His articles have appeared in the Economic Journal, Rand Journal of Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Oxford Economic Papers, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Design, and others.

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Former Faculty

European Business School, Department: Law, Governance & Economics (Head)
Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London; CES-Ifo (Munich) and IZA (Bonn)

Professor Demougin studied at Mannheim and received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario. He has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Quebec, and was Professor at the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg until 2001, when he came to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research interests range from industrial organization to labor economics and to law and economics, and he has published extensively in applied microeconomics, information and contract theory. In 2007 he left Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin to become head of the department for Law, Governance & Economics at European Business School.

Assistant Professor Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Research Fellow at Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

Dr. Tomaso Duso's research interests are in the areas of industrial organization, political economics, and institutional economics. Specifically, he conducts empirical research on regulation, competition policy, lobbying, and institutions.

Director of the Research Unit Market Processes and Governance at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Chair of Public Finance at Free University Berlin, Adjunct Professor, University of Bergen,
Research Fellow, CEPR, CESifo and IZA

Professor Konrad graduated in Munich. His main fields of research are public sector economics, political economy and the theory of conflict. He is a member of the council of economic advisors to the German federal ministry of finance. His research has appeared in the Economic Journal, the American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review and others. In 2000 Konrad was awarded the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik.

European Central Bank

Bartosz Mackowiak received his PhD in Economics in 2002 from Yale University. He spent the last two years of his PhD study as a visiting scholar at Princeton University. His fields of specialization are macroeconomics, international finance and applied time series econometrics. His current research interests include monetary and fiscal policy, international transmission of shocks, macroeconomics of emerging markets and microfoundations of stickiness.

Chair for Corporate Finance, University Mannheim

Professor Maug obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics. His main research interest is in the theory of corporate finance with a particular emphasis on corporate governance. Recent work analyzes the relationship between the stock market and governance by large shareholders, insider trading legislation, shareholder voting, and compensation for executives and portfolio managers. His research was published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the European Economic Review, and others.

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Research Professor for Macroeconomics at Tilburg University Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.

Professor Harald Uhlig received his PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1990. His research interest is macroeconomics, broadly defined, including applied quantitative theory and applied dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium theory, the intersection of macroeconomics and financial economics, applied macroeconomics and quantitative methods. He has published papers in the American Economic Review, in Econometrica, and other leading journals. In 2003, he was awarded the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik. He left Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for Chicago in 2007.

Associate Professor University of Adelaine
German Science Foundation Heisenberg Fellow Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.

Dr. Weder specializes in macroeconomics with emphasis on business cycles and economic growth. Recent research interests include: the macroeconomics of self-fulfilling prophecies, the Great Depression of the 1930s and labor market institutions. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economics Letters, and others.

Assistant Professor at Northwestern University

Mirko Wiederholt received his Ph.D. in Economics in 2003 from the European University Institute. His fields of specialization are macroeconomics, international finance and information economics. His current research interests include business cycle theory, growth theory and microfoundations of price stickiness. In 2006 he left Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for Northwestern University.

Professor of Economics at the Technical University Berlin
Head of the Department "Information Society and Competition" at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Christian Wey's research employs game-theoretic models to examine issues of strategic competition, antitrust policy, and regulation in imperfectly competitive markets. His current research focuses on market dominance in input markets and their assessment by competition and regulatory authorities. His articles have appeared in the RAND Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Applied Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, International Review of Law and Economics and others.

Institute for Economic Theory, Free university of Berlin

Daniel Krähmer studied Mathematics and Economics in Berlin and London. His main fields of interest are Behavioural Economics, theories of learning, and incentive theory. His current research focuses on decision making with regret and delegation in organizations.

Visiting Professor at the Chair of Economic Policy (Macroeconomics), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Günther Rehme is currently a visiting professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and directing the chair of Economic Policy  I (Macroeconomics). He studied at J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, the London School of Economics and the European University Institute where he received his Ph.D. His research interests include marcoeconomics, economic growth, distribution, globalization, and public policy. His research has been published in MIT Press, Economica, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Economics and other outlets.

Research Fellow at Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
International Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London

Susanne Prantl’s research interests are industrial economics, applied econometrics, policy evaluation, innovation, growth and labor economics.

European School of management and Technology (esmt), Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty
ICM Fellow, Brussels

Professor Wathieu graduated at the University of Namur and obtained his Ph.D. from INSEAD. Before joining esmt he held position at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and at Harvard Business School. Luc’s field of specialization is marketing, with emphasis in customer behavior and marketing strategy. His research combines mathematical models, experiments, and case studies, and covers topics such as pricing, differentiation, interactive marketing, adaptive behavior, consumer empowerment. His articles appeared in Journal of Consumer Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, Economic Letters, and others.

European School of management and Technology (esmt), Associate Dean of R&D

Professor de Vericourt graduated at the Institute National Polytechnique in Grenoble and obtained his Ph.D. from Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6. Before joining esmt he held position at MIT and Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Francis’ research interests broadly lie in developing advanced analytical methods to help make better managerial decisions. His recent work has focused on solving dynamic decision problems in service and supply chain management. He is currently developing decision models for health care applications. His research was published among others in Management Science, Operations Research, Queuing Systems.