Research Focus

• Industrial Economics, Regulation
• Applied Microeconometrics
• Growth, Innovation, and Labor Economics

Academic Career

• since 2010: Professor of Economics, esp. Industrial Economics and Applied Microeconometrics, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
• since 2010: Director, Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR), University of Cologne
• 09-12/2009: Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA)
• 2009-2010: Senior Research Fellow (W2), MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
• 09-10/2006: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK
• 2004-2009: Research Fellow, Research Area: Markets and Politics, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
• 2002-2003: Marie Curie-Researcher, Dept. of Economics, University College London, UK
• 2002-2003: Assistant Professor (C1), Dept. of Economics, University of Mannheim (partly on leave)
• 2002 Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Mannheim
• 1996-2002: Research and Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Economics, University of Mannheim
• 1995 M.Sc. in Economics (Diplom, VWL), University of Mannheim (studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, University of Mannheim, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium))

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