About me

I have studied economics, applied mathematics and practical computer science at Justus-Liebig University in Gießen. I participated in the doctoral programme Applied Microeconomics at Freie Universität Berlin and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 1998-2001 and obtained my doctoral degree from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, I was a collaborator in the National Research Center Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes (SFB 373) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2003 to 2009, I was an assistant professor in Economics at RWTH Aachen University. Since August 2009, I am professor in economics at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and head of the Department of Macroeconomics at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). Since March 2014, I am also a member of the executive board of the IWH.

Fields of research:

• quantitative macroeconomics
• business cycles and forecasting
• applied econometrics and time series analysis
• fiscal and monetary policy
• macroeconomic policy

CV including list of publications: pdf