Participating Faculty

Research Training Group 1659 | Participating Faculty

The Research Training Group is supported by the economic faculty of the three universities of Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin, the faculty of the ESMT, and the two research organizations WZB and DIW. The faculty members' expertise spans the three core disciplines microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics from both a theoretical and applied perspective.

	Prof. Tim Adam, Ph.D. (HU Berlin) Institute of Corporate Finance Empirical corporate finance Corporate risk management Mutual funds Credit rating agencies	Prof. Dr. Pio Baake (TU Berlin/DIW) Department of Information Society and Competition Industrial organization Regulatory economics Public choice Public finance
	Prof. Özlem Bedre-Defolie, Ph.D. (ESMT) ESMT Industrial economics Competition policy	Prof. Dr. Helmut Bester (FU Berlin) Institute of Economic Theory Microeconomics Uncertainty and information Contract theory Industrial organization
	Prof. Michael Burda, Ph.D. (HU Berlin) Institute for Economic Theory II (Macro) Labor economics Macroeconomics European integration	Prof. Dr. Joachim Gassen (HU Berlin) Institute of Accounting and Auditing Accounting
	Prof. Dr. Frank Heinemann (TU Berlin) Institute for Macroeconomics Monetary macroeconomics Experimental economics	Prof. Rajshri Jayaraman, Ph.D. (ESMT) ESMT Development economics Empirical industrial organization
	Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler (WZB) Research Unit: Market Behavior Experimental economics Decision making and strategic interaction	Dr. Robert Schmidt (HU Berlin) Institute for Competition Policy Environmental economics Industrial organization
	Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb (FU Berlin) Chair of International Public Economics Happiness Labor economics General public economics Reforming the welfare state Optimal taxation Environmental and resource economics	Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener (HU Berlin) Institute for Applied Microeconomics Labor economics Applied microeconometrics
	Prof. Dr. Roland Strausz (HU Berlin) Institute for Microeconomic Theory Contract theory Mechanism design Industrial organization	Prof. Lutz Weinke, Ph.D. (HU Berlin) Institute of Economic Policy Macroeconomics Monetary economics
Further cooperating members:
	Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Hautsch (HU Berlin) Institute of Statistics and Econometrics Econometrics Empirical finance	Prof. Dr. Paul Heidhues (ESMT) ESMT (Behavioral) industrial organization Competition policy Behavioral economics (Applied) game theory
	Prof. Dr. Steffen Huck (WZB) Research Unit: Economics of Change Game theory Behavioral economics	Prof. Dr. Alex Stomper (HU Berlin) Institute of Financial Economics Financial economics, with a focus on real effects of financial policy