Moritz Helm (Germany) Essays on the macroeconomics of labor market institutions. Supervisor: Árpád Ábrahám Kenan Huremović (Bosnia Herzegovina) Essays in Networks and Applied Microeconomic Theory. Supervisor: Fernando Vega-Redondo Stefan Lamp (Germany) Essays in applied microeconometrics: household and firm investment. Supervisor: Jérôme Adda Ilse Lindenlaub (Germany) Matching with Multidimensional Heterogeneity. Supervisor: Nicola Pavoni Dominik Menno (Germany) Topics in Quantitative Macroeconomics. Supervisor: Piero Gottardi Arevik Mkrtchyan (Armenia) Essays on the Economics of Trade Agreements. Supervisor: Piero Gottardi Tommaso Oliviero (Italy) Credit and the Real Economy: Macroeconomic and Microeconomic issues. Supervisor: Nicola Pavoni Katerina-Chara Papioti (Greece) Three Essays on Corruption and Auctions. Supervisor: Massimo Morelli Damien Puy (France) Demand composition, inequality and the effect of aggregate shocks. Supervisor: Massimiliano Marcellino Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (Spain) Parental job insecurity and kids’ grades. Supervisor: Andrea Ichino
David Strauss (Germany) Assignment reversals and growth. Supervisor: Piero Gottardi Lena Tonzer (Germany) Essays on Financial Stability and Regulation in Integrated Markets. Supervisor: Elena Carletti Kjersti Torstensen (Norway) Life cycle labor supply with human capital accumulation and involuntary unemployment. Supervisor: Árpád Ábrahám
RESEARCHERS ADMITTED IN 2014
Pascal Achard (France) Thesis topic: Essays in empirical labor economics Sergey Balakin (Russia) Thesis topic: Econometrics and game theory Andrea Cintolesi (Italy) Thesis topic: Effect of Primary Elections on the Electoral Competition Steve Cunningham (UK) Thesis topic: Structural Breaks in European Inflation Behaviour in Times of Regime Uncertainty Alessandro Ferrari (Italy) Thesis topic: Productivity Gaps, Currency Misalignments and Current Account Imbalances in Common Currency Areas Johannes Fleck (Germany) Thesis topic: Turbulence in a micro augmented general equilibrium search model Carmen Garcia Galindo (Spain) Thesis topic: Cartels and evolution of competition policy Mathijs Janssen (Netherlands) Thesis topic: Price bubbles
Immo Schott (Germany) Business cycle properties of capital reallocation models with heterogeneous agents. Supervisor: Russell Cooper
Karol Mazur (Poland) Thesis topic: Unemployment Benefits for Quitters as an Incentive to Search
Piotr Śpiewanowski (Poland) Essays in Political Economy of Education and Political Cycles. Supervisor: Massimo Morelli
Christian Meyer (Germany) Thesis topic: The political Economy of business-government relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promoting enterprise development for jobs and livelihood strategies
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