Prof. Dr. Erwin Amann holds a chair for Microeconomics at the Universität Duisburg-Essen. He received his doctoral degree in natural science at the University of Vienna and completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Economics and Social Science at the Universität Dortmund. He teaches microeconomics, game theory and information economics.

Ronald Bachmann is adjunct professor at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and head of the department “Labor Markets, Education, Population” at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. He studied economics at the University of Cambridge (BA Economics), the London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc Economics), and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (PhD in Economics).

His work has been published in internationally renowned journals such as the Canadian Journal of Economic, Scottish Journal of Political Economy and Applied Economics.

Thushyanthan Baskaran is a Professor of Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum and a Research Associate at the ZEW Mannheim. Professor Baskaran's current research focuses on public and regional economics, covering topics such as tax competition, fiscal federalism, soft budget constraints, fiscal capacity, political budget cycles, political selection, women in politics, and economic development in India and Sub-Saharan African.

He studied Economics at the Free University of Berlin and received his PhD in Economics from the University of Heidelberg in 2010. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Gothenburg, an Assistant Professor for Public Finance at the University of Goettingen, and a Professor for Applied Microeconomics at the University of Siegen. His work has been published in various international journals such as the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Urban Economics.

Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Bauer holds the chair in Empirical Economics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum since 2003. He studied economics at the Universität München where he received his degree as Diplom-Volkswirt in 1993. From 1993-1997 he worked as research associate at SELAPO, Universität München. In July 1997 he obtained his doctoral degree from the Universität München for his dissertation on the labor market effects of immigration and migration policy in Germany. From 1997-1998 Thomas Bauer visited Rutgers University, USA, under the auspices of a Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In September 1998 he joined the Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Institute for the Study of Labor) IZA in Bonn as Senior Research Associate and became IZA Program Director for the Research Area "Mobility and Flexibility of Labor" in July 1999. Since February 2004 he is member of the executive board of the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Furthermore, he is research fellow of the IZA, research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Michael J. Böhm is Professor of Empirical Economics at TU Dortmund. Prior to that, he was assistant professor ("Juniorprofessor") at the University of Bonn. He obtained his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 2013. Michael Böhm completed research stays at the University of British Columbia (funded by the German Research Foundation), University College London, Stockholm School of Economics, and Uppsala University. He is research fellow at Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), the Swedish House of Finance (SHoF), and a member of the Research Committee on Population Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik. Michael Böhm research interests center around labor economics and its intersections with econometrics, firm productivity, personnel, technological change, and macroeconomics. His papers have been published in international journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Quantitative Economics, and International Economic Review.

Lukas Buchheim is Professor of Microeconomics at TU Dortmund, Germany, and research affiliate of CESifo.

Before joining TU Dortmund, he was postdoctoral researcher at LMU Munich, where he also received his PhD (in 2013). During his time at LMU Munich, he was member of the SFB/CRC 15 “Governance and the Efficency of Economic Systems” (2008 -2010) and SFB/CRC “Rationality and Competition” (2017-2021), and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014-2015).

In his research, Lukas Buchheim frequently works on topics on the boundary between Micro- and Macroeconomics. For example, he studied the dynamics of political transitions, estimated the regional economic dynamics of public policy from microeconomic data, and investigated how consumers and firms process information to form expectations. His work has been published in leading journals like the Review of Economic Studies, AEJ: Economic Policy, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and Management Science.

Matthias Busse is Professor of International Economics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Before joining the Ruhr-Universität, he worked as Senior Economist and Head of the Program World Economy at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA and HWWI). Professor Busse is a Research Fellow at the HWWI and Director at the Institute for Development Research and Development Policy at Ruhr-Universität. As part of a development project, he worked from 2015 to 2018 as an integrated expert for the Namibian Ministry of Industry and Trade. He received his doctorate and habilitation in economics, both from the University of Hamburg.

Prof. Dr. Volker Clausen is a full Professor for International Economics at the Universität Duisburg-Essen, campus Essen, since 2001. After his master studies in economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science he did a doctorate and habilitated at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. Prior to joining the faculty in Essen he taught at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as well as the Kelley School of Business in Bloomington, Indiana (USA). Recurrent stays for research at American universities like MIT and recently at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, have improved his academic profile.

I obtained my PhD in econom(etr)ics in 2005 under the supervision of Uwe Hassler at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. The thesis dealt with issues in time series forecasting, with a focus on forecasting under asymmetric loss functions. Having chosen to pursue an academic career, I went on as a post-doc researcher in Frankfurt. My research during this period shifted towards (non)stationary panels with cross-unit dependence.
During the academic year 2007-2008, I was a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. My mentor during the stay in Tuscany was Helmut Lütkepohl. In summer 2008, I returned to Frankfurt on a position as junior professor for applied econometrics. I then completed a PhD in industrial engineering at the University "Politehnica" Bucharest under the supervision of Hans-Dieter Heike; the thesis focussed on time series control under asymmetric loss.
I moved to the University of Bonn in 2010, where I was a professor at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics until 2014, when I moved to the University of Kiel as a professor for statistics and applied econometrics. My research shifted during this time towards methods for analyzing stock returns predictabilty. I have joined the TU Dortmund University in May 2022.

Manuel Frondel received a diploma in physics and economic engineering and is currently chief of the research division “Environment and Resources” at RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Since 2009, he is also Professor for Energy Economics and Applied Econometrics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, and part-time professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Heilbronn, Germany. He received his Ph. D. from the Department of Economics at Heidelberg University.

Christiane Hellmanzik is Professor of Urban, Regional and International Economics at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. She received her PhD in 2010 from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, her M.A. from University College Dublin, Ireland, and her B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, and has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg, Germany (2011-2016). She is a labour and trade economist with a particular interest in creative production. Her research has covered a range of topics from agglomeration of economic activity to migration, peer effects, auctions and art markets, economic history as well as international trade of goods and services.

Zohal Hessami is a Professor for Social Policy and Public Economics at the Ruhr-University Bochum, a CESifo Munich affiliate member and an IZA Bonn research fellow. She is the President of the European Public Choice Society since April 2022.

She has spent several months as a visiting researcher at Harvard University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the University of Cambridge. She pursued her undergraduate studies at Maastricht University and Université de Montréal and received her Doctorate in Economics from the University of Konstanz.

She studies policy-relevant topics such as individual voting behavior, political selection, (local) political decision-making and public finances, and political business cycles. Her research has been widely published in journals such as the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Martin Hibbeln is Professor for Finance at the Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen. After studying Business Administration and Electrical Engineering at the TU Braunschweig and the Tampere University of Technology, he obtained a Ph.D. in Business Economics and the Venia Legendi in Business Administration from the TU Braunschweig, and he was visiting researcher at the City University of Hong Kong and the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

His work has been published in internationally renowned journals such as the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Journal of Risk and Insurance and MIS Quarterly, and he was awarded several research prizes like the Heinrich-Büssing-Prize and CIONET European Research Paper of the Year.

Yannick Hoga works as a postdoctoral researcher in Econometrics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He studied economathematics at the University of Cologne and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and obtained his doctorate in 2016 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focuses on methodological contributions in financial econometrics, with a particular emphasis on the role of extreme observations and structural change. His work was published in renowned journals such as Biometrika, Econometric Theory, and the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics.

Carsten Jentsch received his diploma in mathematics with minor business studies in 2007 and his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in 2010 both from Technical University Braunschweig. His thesis was on stationarity testing and bootstrap methods for time series. After his PhD he was postdoc at the Chair of Statistics at the Econ Department of the University of Mannheim. He was member of the SFB/CRC 884 "The Economy of Political Reforms" at the University of Mannheim and associate member at the GRK/RTG 1953 "Statistical Modeling of Complex Systems" at University of Mannheim and Heidelberg University. Currently, he is an associate member of the  SFB/CRC 823 "Statistical Modelling of Nonlinear Processes" and member of the Dortmund Center for data-based Media Analysis (DoCMA) at TU Dortmund University. He is a faculty member at the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS Econ) at the University Alliance Ruhr and he is an alumni of the Eliteprogram for Postdocs of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, Germany.

Since 2018 he is Professor for Business and Social Statistics at the Department of Statistics at TU Dortmund University. Before joining the TU Dortmund University, he held temporary positions in statistics as acting chair at the University of Bayreuth (Math Department) and the University of Mannheim (Econ Department). Visiting positions have brought him to UC San Diego, University of Cyprus, Texas A&M University, and University of Ottawa. He is currently member of the editorial boards of Statistical Papers and of Journal of Time Series Analysis.

Prof. Dr. Philip Jung is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University Dortmund. He received his doctoral degree supervised by Prof. Dirk Krueger in 2005 from the University of Frankfurt. From 2006 to 2007 he was Post-Doctorial of Prof. Wouter den Haan at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. From 2008-2012 he was Junior-Professor at the University of Mannheim, from 2012-2014 he held a position as professor at the University of Bonn. His publications are focused on problems of labor economics, in particular questions concerning inequality and insurance and incentive trade-off in models with heterogeneous agents, as well as problems of business cycle theory, in particular the design of optimal fiscal and labor-market policies.

Martin Karlsson joined the University of Duisburg-Essen in April 2012. He was awarded a PhD in economics from the European University Institute in 2007, for a thesis on incentive regulation in health care. During his doctoral studies, Martin was also working as a research officer at Cass Business School in London. Between 2006 and 2009 he worked as a research fellow at the University of Oxford (Institute of Ageing and Nuffield College), before moving to a position as assistant professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2009.
Beside his work at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Martin is a research fellow of the University of Oslo, and he also participates in several international collaborations.

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kiesel heads the chair for “Energy Trading and Financial Services” at the University Duisburg-Essen. Previously he has been Director of the Institute for Mathematical Finance at the University of Ulm. He also held positions as Lecturer and Reader for actuarial science and financial mathematics at Birkbeck College, University of London and London School of Economics.
His main research areas are risk management for power utility companies, modeling of electricity markets, valuation and hedging of derivatives (interest-rate, credit- and energy-related), methods of risk transfer and structuring of risk (securitization).
He is Co-author of the Springer Finance monograph Risk-Neutral Valuation (now in its second edition) and has written more than fifty published research papers.
He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and organized several conferences and practitioner seminars. Professor Kiesel also consults financial institutions, utilities and regulators on (credit- and energy-) risk management, derivative pricing models and asset allocation.

Eugen Kovac is professor for Microeconomics and International Economics at the Mercator School of Management at the University Duisburg-Essen. Kovac received his Ph.D. at CERGE-EI, Charles University in Prague in 2007. After that he worked at the University Bonn as a Postdoctoral Researcher and later as a Juniorprofessor. He has joined the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2015. His research interest include industrial organization and microeconomic theory.

Kati Krähnert is professor for climate change and development at Ruhr University Bochum and scientist at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. She studied at Freie Universität Berlin and Wake Forest University (Magister in social anthropology and economics) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (PhD in agricultural economics).

She conducts research in applied development economics within the context of climate change. The aim of her research is to generate new knowledge on how the lives of individuals in the Global South are affected by climate change and how to best design adaptation policies that increase the climate resilience of households. Her research is mainly based on new, carefully designed household panel surveys that she and her team collect in cooperation with local partners. Recently completed, ongoing, and soon-to-start data collections are taking place in Mongolia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Senegal, Ghana, and Vietnam.

Astrid Krenz is Professor of Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum and an Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex. Professor Krenz's
current research focuses on new technologies, robots and AI, the gig economy, firm dynamics, regional disparities, labour market effects and inequality, gender economics, and economic development.
She studied Economics and Statistics at the University of Bielefeld and at Purdue University, and received her PhD in Economics from the
University of Goettingen. She was previously a Marie Curie Junior Research Fellow at Durham University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. Her work has been published in various international journals such as the European Economic Review, PLOS One, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Applied Statistics, German Economic Review and the Annals of Regional Science.

Prof. Dr. Michael Lamla is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

He received his BSc. and MSc. degree in economics (Dipl. Volkswirt) from the University of Bonn, Germany and obtained his PhD at the University of Zürich in 2007. Until 2013 he worked at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Zurich before he became Full Professor at the university of Essex, UK. In 2019 he was appointed as Professor of Empirical Macroeconomics at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is Research Professor at ETH Zürich, Fellow of the CEPR Research Network for Central Bank Communication, Fellow at the CESifo, Co-Editor of the Review of International Economics.

His research centers in areas such as monetary policy, finance, international economics, behavioural economics as well as ecological economics. Research output has been published in internationally renowned journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and European Economic Review. Current research focusses on announcement effects of central banks on households’ expectations

Prof. Dr. Ludger Linnemann is Professor of Applied Economics at the University Dortmund. He received his doctoral degree in 2000 from the University of Cologne, where he also completed his habilitation in 2004. From 2005 to 2008 he held a Professorship in Economic Policy at the University of Bonn. His publications are focused on problems of applied macroeconomics, business cycle theory, and growth, in particular the empirical and theoretical foundations of fiscal and monetary policies.

Andreas Löschel holds the Chair for Environmental/Resource Economics and Sustainability at the Ruhr Universität Bochum since 2021. He is also a research fellow at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Before, he was a full professor of economics at the University of Münster (2014-2021) and at the University of Heidelberg (2010-2014) and Head of Department at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. He received his PhD in Economics at the University of Mannheim in 2003. Since 2011 he has been the chairman of the Expert Commission of the German Government to monitor the energy transformation and since 2017 he directs the Virtual Institute Smart Energy North Rhine-Westphalia (VISE). Andreas Loeschel is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Report (2010-2022) and a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He published more than eighty articles in journals of the Social Sciences Citation Index such as Canadian Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Public Economics, Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 

Prof. Dr. Marie Elina Paul (née Waller) is professor for Quantitative Methods in Economics at the Mercator School of Management (University of Duisburg-Essen). She studied economics at the universities of Göttingen and Poitiers and then joined the doctoral program at Mannheim University. She received her doctoral degree from Mannheim in 2009. As an assistant, she worked at the universities of Frankfurt and Freiburg and at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and visited the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Prof. Dr. Peter N Posch is a full professor for Finance at the University of Dortmund. He received his doctoral degree in finance from the faculty of economics and mathematics at the University of Ulm on an econometric analysis of the dynamics of credit risk, a work which received the Reuters Innovation award. Afterwards Peter joined the financial industry working for a bank in prop trading and portfolio management. Before joining TU Dortmund he was assistant professor in finance at the University of Ulm. He studied economics, philosophy and law at the University of Bonn, majoring on economic theory and probability theory. His current research topics focus on risk assessment and pricing of complex portfolios, sovereign risk management and the development of quantitative tools for the new normal in finance.

Prof. Dr. Julio R. Robledo holds a chair in Applied Microeconomics at the Ruhr-University Bochum since 2011. He studied Economics and Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin. In 2000 he obtained his doctoral degree from the Free University of Berlin for his dissertation on the private provision of public goods. Before joining the RUB, Julio was a researcher at the DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research), an assistant professor the University of Vienna and a lecturer at the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham

Prof. Dr. Michael Roos has been a full professor in Macroeconomics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum since 2009. He studied Economics at the Universität des Saarlandes, the Universidad de Sevilla, and the University of Michigan. After the Diplom, he joined the doctoral program (Graduiertenkolleg) "Resource Allocation, Economic Policy and Collective Decisions", the predecessor of the RGS Econ, and received his doctoral degree in 2002 from the Universität Dortmund. He completed his habilitation at the Universität Dortmund in 2008 and became a lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Tobias Seidel joined the University of Duisburg-Essen in October 2012. He is full professor of economics and teaches international economics, economic policy and econometrics at the Mercator School of Business in Duisburg. His research interests include topics in international trade and multinational firms as well as topics in public and regional economics. Seidel received his PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in 2007, for a thesis on the implications of globalization in the presence of rigid labor markets. Between 2007 and 2012, he worked at the LMU, the ETH Zurich and spent a year at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Seidel is member of the CESifo research network and participates in several national and international research projects.

Prof. Dr. Kristina Strohmaier is a Professor of Public Economics and joined the University of Duisburg-Essen in April 2022. She received her PhD supervised by Prof. Nadine Riedel in 2017 from the Ruhr-University Bochum. From 2017 to 2022, she was a junior professor for Public Economics at the University of Tübingen. During that time, she was a visiting researcher at the Columbia University in New York and the European University Institute in Florence. Furthermore, she is a research fellow at the ZEW and the Research School of International Taxation (RSIT).

Kristina Strohmaier is an applied microeconomist with a strong focus on questions related to public economics, in particular in the areas of (international) taxation and education. Her work has been published in various international journals such as Journal of Human Resources, International Tax and Public Finance, Economics Letter, and British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Colin Vance is the Deputy Director of the Environment & Resources Division of the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Since 2009 he has concurrently served as a Professor of Economics at Jacobs University and as a faculty member of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). Prior to joining RWI in 2006, Colin held appointments with the German Aerospace Center (2003-2005) and with the US Environmental Protection Agency (2000-2003). He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Clark University in 2000.

Jens Wrona holds the chair for New Economic Geography and East Asia at the University Duisburg-Essen, where he is affiliated with the Mercator School of Managment (MSM) and the Institut for East Asian Studies (IN-EAST). Moreover, Jens Wrona is a CESifo Research Network Member at the ifo Institut in München. He received his PhD in Economics from the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen in 2014, where he previously studies economics and japanese studies. From 2015 to 2019 Jens Wrona was an assistant professor for International Economics at the Düsseldorf Institut for Competition Economics (DICE) at the Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU) Düsseldorf.

Ansgar Wübker studied economics at the University of Münster, Germany. He finished his Ph.D. in economics in 2008 (supervisor Prof. Dr. Dirk Sauerland). Between 2008 and 2014 he worked as a research assistant at Witten/Herdecke University. Dr. Wübker was research fellow at the Institut d'Economie et Management de la Santé at University of Lausanne in Switzerland from March until July 2012. Thereafter, he held the position of stand-in-professor at the chair of Competition Theory at Ruhr-University Bochum until March 2014. Since March 2014 Ansgar Wübker is deputy head of the "Health Economics" department at RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and since July 2015, he is adjunct professor for health economics and health policy at the Ruhr-University Bochum.

In his research, he analyzes empirical and policy-relevant issues in the field of health economics. His research focuses on individual health behavior, the analysis of hospital markets, inequalities in health care and the econometric evaluation of policy measures. He is speaker of the Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr.

Dr. Antonia Arsova is a Junior Professor in Econometrics at TU Dortmund University. After studying Applied Mathematics, Probability Theory and Statistics at the Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“, she obtained a PhD in Econometrics from the Leuphana University Lüneburg in 2019. There she also worked as a Research Assistant for the DFG-funded project "Likelihood-Based Panel Cointegration Methodology and Its Applications in Macroeconomics and Financial Market Analysis". Her research interests are in the area of Nonstationary time series and panel data, Cross-sectional dependence in panel data, Cointegration and Empirical Macroeconometrics

Boris Blagov is a postdoctoral researcher at the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen, Germany at the division Macroeconomics and Public Finance. At the RWI he is responsible for the Euro Area and international forecasts.  He is a lecturer at the Chair of Monetary Policy and Financial Markets of Prof. Dr. Peter Anker (University of Duisburg-Essen) as well as at the Jacobs University in Bremen. He studied at the University of Bonn and holds a PhD from the Hamburg Graduate School of Economics (University of Hamburg). His research area lies at the intersection of Macroeconomics, Monetary policy, and International Economics. In his dissertation he studied the interaction between interest and exchange rates through non-linear frameworks such as Markov-switching DSGE and VAR models. 

Nina Boberg-Fazlic is Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Economics at TU Dortmund University. Prior to her current position, she was Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark and has also worked at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Nina received her Ph.D. in 2014 from Copenhagen University. Nina’s research interests are in empirical economic history. She is also a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Michael Kramm is an Akademischer Rat at the Chair of Microeconomics at the Technical University of Dortmund. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2018 at the Technical University of Dortmund writing on the „Game Theoretical Analyses of Industrial and Societal Organization“. Before his Ph.D., he obtained an M.Sc. in „Economics“ at the University of Bonn and a B.A. in „Economics and Politics“ at the University of Münster. One of his research focuses is the analysis of the role of information in the economy and of the beliefs of the different economic agents.

Sanne Hiller is Assistant Professor for Macroeconomics (Juniorprofessorin) at Ruhr-University Bochum. Prior to her current position, she worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.  She holds a PhD in International Economics from Aarhus University (2011) and studied International Economics at Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen (2008). Her research is concerned with firm behavior on international markets, migration and international knowledge spillovers.
She is also affiliated with Aarhus University and is a member of the International Study Group on Exporter Productivity (ISGEP).

Daniel Kühnle holds the chair for Labour and Health Economics at the University Duisburg-Essen. Moreover, Daniel Kühnle is affiliated with CINCH in Essen and IZA in Bonn. He received his PhD in Economics from the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2014, and holds a BA in Politics and Economics from Leeds University and a Master's degree in Development Economics and Policy from University of Manchester in England. His work has been published in internationally renowned journals such as the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Demography, Journal of Health Economics, Labour Economics, and Health Economics. 

Till Massing is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Econometrics at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2019. He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn and he obtained his doctorate in 2019 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In his dissertation, he analyzed estimation and simulation approaches for certain classes of jump-type stochastic processes with applications to financial markets. His research interests are in the area of estimation theory for Lévy processes, financial econometrics and time series analysis.

Dr. Lars Metzger is a post-doc (Akademischer Rat) at the department of Business and Economics at TU Dortmund University, where he held the Juniorprofessorship for Economics from 2011 until 2020. He obtained his Doctoral degree in 2009 as a member of the Europeean Doctoral Programme being hosted at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Mathematical Economics at Bielefeld University.

Sebastian Otten is Professor of Labor and Migration Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London (UCL) and at RWI Essen. He received his doctoral degree in Economics at Ruhr University Bochum. Before joining the University of Duisburg-Essen, Sebastian was a postdoctoral researcher at UCL and a visiting researcher at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Sebastian's research interests are in applied microeconomics.

Edgar Preugschat is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Dortmund. He studied at the Free University Berlin and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research interest is in applied macroeconomics with an emphasis on labor markets and housing markets. Furthermore, he uses experimental methods to study search markets.

Jan Prüser is works as a postdoctoral researcher in Econometrics at the Technical University of Dortmund. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2019 at the University of Duisburg. During his PhD, he also was trained at the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics as a member of the 12th cohort. Before his Ph.D., he obtained an B.Sc. and M.Sc. in „Economics“ at the University of University of Duisburg-Essen. His current research focuses on building high dimensional models useful for empirical macroeconomic analysis and forecasting.

Matthias Westphal is Assistant Professor in Economics at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. He is also affiliated to the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. Matthias received his PhD in 2018 from Paderborn University, his Master from University of Duisburg-Essen, and his B.Sc. form the University of Münster. During his PhD, he also was trained at the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics as a member of the 10^th cohort. For research stays, he visited the London School of Economics and the University of California, Irvine. He is interested in applied microeconomics, particularly in health economics and the economics of education. For instance, his research covers topics like the determinants of the cognitive decline in old age, or the medium-term effects of informal care provision, or the monetary and non-monetary returns to education.

Florian Ziel is an assistant professor of Environmental Economics, esp. Economics of Renewable Energy at the University of Duisburg-Essen (since February 2017). He studied mathematics and statistics at the TU Dresden and University College Dublin (UCD). In June 2016 he received his doctoral degree in business administration and economics from the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt(Oder) writing a thesis about electricity price modeling and forecasting. During his PhD and post-doc period he researched at the European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics of the Université libre de Bruxelles and at the Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics of the University of Oxford. His research objectives are the quantitative modeling of energy markets with focus on the impact of renewable energy. Additionally, he is interested in time series analysis of seasonal data with application to energy and environmental economics such as statistical portfolio management.