Doctoral Students
Felix Chopra
Media Persuasion and Consumption: Evidence from the Dave Ramsey Show
Areas: Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics
References: Armin Falk, Lorenz Goette, Florian Zimmermann, Thomas Graeber
Websites: https://www.felixchopra.com
Twitter: @FelixChopra
Rubén Domínguez Díaz
Precautionary Savings and Financial Frictions
Areas: Macroeconomics, inequality, fiscal, monetary, and labor market policies
References: Keith Kuester, Christian Bayer, Thomas Hintermaier
Website: https://www.rubendominguezdiaz.com/
Sven Heuser
The Effects of Face-To-Face Conversations on Polarization: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Areas: Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Political Economy
References: Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, David Huffman, Florian Zimmermann
Website: https://www.svenheuser.com/
Twitter: @Sven__Heuser
Nadezhda Zhuravleva
How Bad Is Labor Market Concentration? Evidence From Soviet (Urban) Satellites
Area: Empirical macroeconomics, labor and macro labor, economic history
References: Christian Bayer, Moritz Schularick, Felipe Valencia Caicedo
Websites: https://sites.google.com/view/nadiazhuravleva/home
Postdocs
Dr. Christian Kubitza
Investor-Driven Corporate Finance: Evidence from Insurance Markets
Areas: Financial economics, with a focus on financial intermediation, insurance, corporate finance, and financial stability
References: Farzad Saidi, Martin Oehmke, Loriana Pelizzon
Website: www.christiankubitza.com
Twitter: @ChrisKubitza
Ludmila Matyskova, Ph.D.
Bayesian Persuasion With Costly Information Acquisition
Areas: microeconomic theory, game theory, information economics, behavioral economics with application to industrial organization
References: Dezsö Szalay, Jakub Steiner, Mark Dean
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/matyskovaludmila/home
Boaz Zik, P.h.D
Coarse Learning and Strategic Communication
Areas: Economics theory, mechanism design, and information economics, with applications in public economics and industrial organization.
References: Benny Moldovanu, Stephan Lauermann, Alex Gershkov
Website: https://sites.google.com/mail.huji.ac.il/boaz-zik/home
Placement Director: Prof. Stephan Lauermann
Placement Office: Dr. Silke Kinzig, placement.bgse@uni-bonn.de
In the years before (2016-2021), graduates of the Department of Economics received job offers from universities such as Harvard, Arizona State, University of Arizona, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon, Carlos III de Madrid, Florence (EUI), Copenhagen (Business School), Rotterdam (Erasmus University), University College London, Vienna, Berlin (HU) and Mannheim as well as by non-academic organizations such as the U. S. Federal Reserve Board, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Canada.
