ERC Starting Grants for Amelie Schiprowski and Johannes Wohlfart
JProf. Amelie Schiprowski and Prof. Johannes Wohlfart, two members of the institute and of the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy have each been awarded one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants worth €1.5 million. The European Research Council (ERC) awards Starting Grants to support outstanding researchers at the beginning of their careers. Amelie Schiprowski and Johannes Wohlfart will use the funding to carry out their own research projects over the next five years. The institute congratulates!
Amelie Schiprowski has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project „Entry-Level Hiring in Tightening Labor Markets: Frictions, Firm Heterogeneity and Public Policy” (ENTRYHIRE). In the project, Schiprowski studies how firms hire and train entry-level employees in the face of tightening labor markets. How is demographic change altering the matching process of young workers and firms? What factors are complicating this process? And what is the impact of labor market policy?
Johannes Wohlfart receives an ERC Starting Grant for his project „Modes of Expectation Formation in Macro and Finance (MODES)“. He is a Professor for Economics at ECONtribute at the University of Cologne. In his ERC project, he will study under which conditions people adopt different approaches to form expectations about the economy and financial markets.