Staff News
On June 30, 2010 Vera Brücher left the IAW and joined the Hochschule Ruhr West (University of Applied Sciences) in Mühlheim a.d. Ruhr.
Dr. Elena Biewen completed her PhD thesis on "Schätzung linearer Panelmodelle mit anonymisierten Betriebs- und Unternehmensdaten" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerd Ronning and Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig in June 2010. On June 30, 2010 she left the IAW and joined the Research Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main.
Dr. Anselm Mattes completed his PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Claudia M. Buch and Prof. Dr. Ansgar Belke in April 2010. His thesis on "Foreign Direct Investment - Evidence on Determinants and Effects at the Micro-level" is now available as IAW-Forschungsbericht No. 70. On July 1, 2010 he joined the DIW econ in Berlin.
On February 16, 2010 Nico Zorell left the IAW and joined the European Central Bank, External Developments Division.
On January 1, 2010 Katja Neugebauer joined the IAW as a research associate. Before, she worked as a research assistant at the department of International Finance and Macroeconomics (chair: Professor Dr. Claudia M. Buch). Her main research focus is on the regulatory differences in international banking.
On October 1, 2009, Dr. Julia Spies has started a five-months Post-Doc Research Fellowship at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan. Among others, she will contribute to INGINEUS (Impact of Networks, Globalisation, and their INteraction with EU Strategies), a project encompassing 14 research institutions worldwide and financed within the EU's 7th Research Framework Programme.
On October 1, 2009 Regina Sappl joined the IAW as a research associate. Between 2002 and 2004 she completed a commercial apprenticeship with Siemens. Afterwards she studied International Economics at the Universities of Tübingen and Oviedo (Spain). She is currently working on projects concerning labour market and social policy issues and their scientific evaluation.
Since September 1, 2009 Dr. Christian Arndt holds the chair for Economics and Empirical Economic Research at the University of Nürtingen-Geislingen. As a senior research fellow of the IAW he is currently involved in different research projects.
On April 1, 2008 Hans Verbeek (University of Mannheim) joined the Institute as a research associate. His research interests include labour markets, social policy, international economics and econometrics.
On December 31, 2008 Dr. Wolf Dieter Heinbach left the IAW and joined the Ministry of Science Baden-Württemberg. Dr. Heinbach will continue his work at the IAW as a free-lance scientific advisor.
Prof. Dr. Claudia M. Buch, Scientific Director of the IAW and Professor at the University of Tübingen, was appointed as chairperson of the advisory board to the German Ministry of Economics (2008-2010). She took over this position from Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan, Ph.D.(University of Mannheim).
On March 11, 2008 Prof. Gerhard Wagenhals (University of Hohenheim) was assigned as chairman of the scientific advisory committee by the Institute’s board of trustees.
On February 1, 2008 Julia Spies (Universities of Hohenheim and Fribourg) joined the Institute as a research associate. Her research interests include international trade and regional integration.