Teaching

J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt

Tutor (2h/week) for macroeconomics (undergraduate courses) – Summer 1989.

City University, London

Part-time Tutor (2h/week) for 1st year undergraduate Economics classes, Academic Year 1990-91.

London School of Economics

Part-time teacher (7h/week) for Economics B (1st yr. undergraduate course), and Principles of Economics (2nd yr. undergraduate course), Academic Year 1991-92.

Teaching Assistant (4h/day) for Intermediate Macroeconomics at the International Summer School, LSE, 1992


Technische Universität Darmstadt


1. Class Teaching (2h/week) :

Principles of Economics - Summer 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02

Macroeconomics 1: Winter 09/10, 10/11, 11/12, 13/14, 14/15, 15/16, 17/18, 18/19

2. Co- and Self-Organized Seminars (graduate courses, 2h/week):

Winter 95 Theories of Growth: Endogenous growth

Summer 96 R&D and Growth in Open Economies

Winter 96 Introduction to Industrial Organization

Summer 97 Business Cycles: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Summer 98 Applications of General Equilibrium Theory in Public Finance

Winter 00 The Race between Education and Technological Change

Winter 01 Internationalization, Market Structure and Dynamic Competition

Summer 02 Financial Markets and Real Activity (joint with Ingo Barens, TUD)

Winter 02 Incentives, (De-)Regulation and Market Organization

Winter 03 Growth and Innovation (joint with Bertram Schefold, Frankfurt)

Winter 04 Trade, Growth and Geography (joint with Michael Pflüger, TUD)

Winter 05 Competition and Growth

Summer 06 The Great Depressions of the 20th Century (joint with Ingo Barens, TUD)

Winter 06 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations


Summer 07 International Finance, Banking and Macroeconomics


Winter 09 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations


Summer 10 The Great Depressions of the 20th Century


Winter 10 The economic history of Germany after WWII


Summer 11 Public Debt and Economic Growth


Summer 13 Europe in Crisis


Winter 13 The long-run development of the world economy


Winter 14 Why Nations Fail


Summer 16 The long-run development of the world economy


Winter 17 PhD Seminar in Economics (self-organized and self-directed)


Summer 17 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations


Summer 18 Low Interest Rates and Secular Stagnation


Summer 19 The Long-Run Economic and Societal Development


Winter 19 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

4. Lectures:

Summer 02 Introduction to Growth Theory (2 h/week)

Winter 02 Theories of Endogenous Growth (2 h/week)

Winter 03 Theories of Distribution (2 h/week)

Winter 04 Industrial Organization I (2 h/week)

The Distribution of Income and Wealth (2 h/week)

Winter 05 Introduction to Growth Theory (2 h/week)

Summer 06 Growth Theory II (2 h/week)

Winter 06 Introduction to Growth Theory (2 h/week)

Summer 07 Growth Theory II (2 h/week)

Summer 10 Macroeconomics II (2 h/week, MSc level)

Winter 16 Macroeconomics 1 (2 h/week, BSc level)

Microeconomics 2 (2 h/week, MSc level)

Summer 18 Principles of Economics (2 h/week, BSc level)

Winter 19 Introduction to Economics (2 h/week, BSc level)

Summer 20 Macroeconomic Theory (2 h/week, MSc level)

Growth and Inequality in an International Perspective (2h/week MSc level)

Winter 20 Introduction to Economics (2 h/week, BSc level)

Summer 21 Macroeconomic Theory (2 h/week, MSc level)

Growth and Inequality in an International Perspective (2h/week MSc level)

Winter 21 Introduction to Economics (2 h/week, BSc level)

Summer 22 Macroeconomic Theory (2 h/week, MSc level)

Growth and Inequality in an International Perspective (2h/week MSc level)


University of Saarland

Lectures

Summer 03 Principles of Economics, Part B, Macroeconomics (6 h/week)

Introduction to Growth Theory (2 h/week)

Summer 04 Principles of Economics, Part B, Macroeconomics (6 h/week)

International Economics (2 h/week)

J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Lectures

Summer 05 Competition and International Economics (2 h/week)

International Economic Relations 2: Cross-Country Evidence on Growth and Distribution Performance (3 h/week)

Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg

Summer 2011

Lecture Economic Policy (3 h/week, BSc. level)

Seminar “Great Depressions of the 20th Century" (2 h/week, MSc. level)


Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin


Courses


Winter 07 Macroeconomics I (2h/w, lecture, Bachelor level)

Monetary Economics (2h/w lecture, 1h/w class, Master level)

Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis (2h/w, lecture and class, Ph.D. level, joint with Michael Burda, Ph.D.)

Thesis seminar (2h/w, Bachelor and Master level)

Summer 08 Macroeconomics II (2h/w lecture, Bachelor level)

Growth and Inequality in an International Perspective (2h/w lecture, 1h/w class, Master level)

Introduction to Continuous Time Macroeconomics (2h/w, lecture + class, Ph.D. level)

Thesis seminar (2h/w, Bachelor and Master level)

Winter 08 Macroeconomics I (2h/w, lecture, Bachelor level)

Monetary Economics (2h/w lecture, 1h/w class, Master level)

Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis I (2h/w, lecture and class, Ph.D. level, joint with Michael Burda, Ph.D.)

Thesis seminar (2h/w, Bachelor and Master level)

Summer 09 Macroeconomics II (2h/w lecture, Bachelor level)

Growth and Inequality in an International Perspective (2h/w lecture, 1h/w class, Master level)

Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis I (2h/w, lecture + class, Ph.D level joint with Frank Heinemann)

Thesis seminar (2h/w, Bachelor and Master level)

Summer 12 Macroeconomics II (2h/w lecture, Bachelor level)

Growth and Inequality in an International Perspective (2h/w lecture, 2h/w class, Master level)

Introduction to Continuous Time Macroeconomics (2h/w, lecture + 1h/w class, Master level)

· Faculty Member of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS), 2007-2009.

MA and BA Theses Supervision

  • “International Business Strategies: Strategic Investment, Bilateral Trade and the Emergence of Multinational Enterprises” (Kyong-Mo Jung, TUD, July 1998

  • “A Cross-Country Study of the Link between Education, Income Distribution and Economic Growth” (Manfred Schmidt, TUD, November 1999)

  • “The Effect of Redistribution and Human Capital on Economic Growth” (Carsten Milzarek, TUD, December 2000)

  • · “The Law of Demand: Theoretical Foundations” (Michael Bartels, TUD, September 2001)

  • · “Multinational Enterprises, Firm-specific Technological Knowledge and International Trade” (Klaus Wersching, TUD, December 2001)

  • · “An Empirical Analysis of the Link between Growth and Discipline-Specific Human Capital” (Ulrike Trautmann, TUD, March 2002)

  • · “Strategic Capacity Decisions of Multinational Enterprises” (Daniel Tessmann, TUD, July 2002)

  • · “Public vs. Private Funding of Education and Earnings Inequality” (Bhantin Noumjerm, TUD, September 2002)

  • · “New Perspectives of New Growth Theory: Technical Progress, Organizational Change and Earnings Inequality” (Sakda Sinsamranjit, TUD, January 2003)

  • · “Shadow Economies: Measurement, Explanations and Evaluation” (Nicolas Raithel, TUD, February 2003)

  • · “The Transfer-Pricing Problem” (Yunus Karakaya, TUD, July 2003)

  • · “Creative Destruction as an Engine of Economic Growth” (Georg Scheiba, TUD, August 2003)

  • · “The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level” (Michael Mathieu, University of Saarland, September 2003)

  • · “Investment Decisions as Strategic Complements or Substitutes” (Alexander Wenzel, TUD, October 2004)

  • · “The Efficiency of Human Capital and Economic Growth” (Frank Jakob, TUD, February 2005)

  • · “Incentives, Income Inequality and Investment Behaviour” (Dietmar Günther, TUD, May 2005)

  • · “Advertising, Consumption and Economic Growth” (Sara Weisser, TUD, April 2005)

  • · “EU-Eastern Enlargement: The Allocation of Labour and Capital” (Michael Hübler, TUD, March 2006)

  • · “Firms Size, Market Power and Innovation: A Comparison of Studies on Schumpeter’s Hypothesis” (Patrick Fulle, TUD, July 2006)

  • · "An Application of a Dynamic, Non-Cooperative Game“ (Florian Fischer, TUD, 2006)

  • · „Consumption and Economic Performance“ (Carina Wittig, TUD, November 2006)

  • · „In-House-Competition: The Example of Volkswagen“ (Boris Bickelhaupt, TUD, January 2007)·

  • · „Market Structure, Competition and Profits “ (Markus Ehrenhöfer, TUD, February 2008)

  • · „Advertising, R&D and Economic Performance“ (Alexander Raßmann, TUD, February 2008)

  • · „An unconditional basic income“(Christoph Irro, HUB, September 2008)

  • · „Great macroeconomic crises“ (Katharina Maier, HUB, under construction 2008

  • · „Heterogeneous Human Capital, Distribution and the Business Cycle” (Michael Müller, HUB, August 2008)

  • · “Technical Progress in Medicine, Health and Economic Development” (Vladislav Ikonomov, HUB, August 2008)

  • · “Taxing Capital Gains” (Michael Hübner, HUB, August 2008)

  • · “Microfinance. Labor market and Interest Rate” (Stefan Walz, HUB, August 2008)

  • · “Do Canada and the United States form an Optimal Currency Area? A Canadian Perspective” (Robert Mühlhaupt, HUB, August 2008)

  • · “Fiscal Policies in a Monetary Union” (Ksenia Koloskova, HUB, September 2008)

  • · “On Consumption-Driven Growth and Business Cycles” (Almut Holz, HUB, Oktober 2008)

  • · “The Creative Class and Economic Performance” (Robin Mehra, HUB, under construction 2008)

  • · “The Taylor Rule and Asset Bubbles” (Alexandra Kopylova, HUB, 2008)

  • · “The Role of Human Capital in Resource-Rich Economies: The Case of Russia” (Nataliya Sapunkova, HUB, 2008)

  • · “Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance in East Asia” (Bing Han, HUB, 2009)

  • · “Die Verbriefung von US-Subprime-Hypotheken und ihre möglichen Auswirkungen auf Deutschland” (Janette Hübner, HUB, March 2009)

  • · “Perspektiven einer Euro-Einführung in Polen” (Michal Lach, HUB, July 2008)

  • · „Sektorale Einflüsse auf die Lohnspreizung in Deutschland” (Roland Hasselmann, HUB, July 2008)

  • · „Measuring Ethnic Diversity and its Impact on Economic Growth” (Ariane Hauer, HUB, July 2009)

  • · „Centralized versus Decentralized Risk Sharing Arrangements. Do We Need a Central Counterparty for Credit Default Swaps?” (Anna Hawelka, HUB, September 2009)

  • · „Fiscal Policy and the Multiplier Effect: Some Recent Debates”(Stefan Zimmermann, HUB, July 2009)

  • · „Population Ageing and Neoclassical Economic Growth: An Identification of Important Links” (Guo Xu, HUB, July 2009)

  • · „Technischer Fortschritt und Beschäftigung: Theorien, Historische Debatten und Empirische Analyse” (Marko Ringmann, HUB, August 2009)

  • · „Currency Substitution and the Challenges of an International Reserve Currency” (Stephan Worack, HUB, September 2009)

  • · „Liquidity Trap and Financial Crisis: A Comparative Analysis” (Clemens Bonner, HUB, August 2009)

  • · „Price setting and Expectations in a Customer-Market Model” (Daniel Neuhann, HUB, August 2009)

  • · „Do the Mercosur Member States Form an Optimal Currency Area” (Martin Teller, HUB, September 2009)

  • · „Preferencias Inducidas, Barreras de Entrada y Crecimiento Economico en el Peru. Evidencia empirica para el periodo 1997-2001” (Angel Verastegui Gubler, TUD, September 2010)

  • · „How effective was the New Deal?” (Maximilian Scholz, TUD, October 2010)

  • · „Fertility, Demographics, Savings and the Current Account in China” (Simon Li, TUD, March 2011)

  • · „Alternatives to GDP to measure welfare” (Julia Raub, TUD, March 2011)

  • · „Are Capital Markets Informationally Efficient” (Janina Ludwig, TUD, August 2011)

  • · „Russia: Is there a Curse of Natural Resources?” (Evgenia Yakovleva, TUD, ongoing 2011/2)

  • · „German Wealth in the Eurozone. A Comparision of Two Studies“ (Isabell Klein, TUD 2014)

  • · „The economic arguments of the Euro critics before the Euro introduction 2002“ (Thorsten Joachim Schönberger, TUD 2014)

  • · „The influence of religion of economic performance“ (Issam Amro, TUD 2014)

  • · „The role of geography for transparency of the production process and statehood“ (Dimitrij Scholl, TUD 2014)

  • · „The economic crisis in Turkey in 2001. Causes, Course and Consequences“ (Asalkhon Shukurova, 2014 TUD)

  • · „Money creation, public or private?“ (Jannik Thellmann, 2014 TUD)

  • · „Is food speculation a driver of prices on the world market?“ (Anna Fromm, 2015 TUD)

  • · „The Desertec-Project: An investigation of ist technical, economic and political implications” (Bouchra El Haiti, 2014 TUD)

  • · „Fixed vs. flexible exchange rate regimes. The Swiss experience“ (Elmira Pitschi, 2017, TUD)

  • · „Privatization, Transition and Inequality. The effects of the Wall coming down for Eastern European Countries” (Roman Gumenyek, 2016 TUD)

  • · „Are falling oil prices good for the world economy? Negative oil price shocks and economic performance.” (Dimitry Feldman, 2016 TUD)

  • · “Human capital composition and economic performance” (Tetyana Klein, August 2016, TUD)

  • · “The Meji Restauration and Japanese economic performance” (Veli Köksal, 2016 TUD)

  • · „Einseitige Moratorien am Beispiel der Sowjetunion und anderer Staaten” (Dimitry Feldman, 2016 TUD)

  • · “Eine Studie zur Austeritätspolitik der Weimarer Republik und möglicher Parallelen zur aktuellen Griechenlandkrise” (Oliver Rudi Kaffenberger, 2017 TUD)

  • · „The Productivity Paradox. An Investigation of the Jones Critique and its Consequences“ (Sven Niederhöfer, 2017 TUD)

  • · „Auswirkungen der Fallenden Ölpreise auf die Weltwirtschaft“ (Vitalij Wagner, 2017 TUD)

  • · “Leverage in Banking and Finance. Consequences for the Real Economy” (Liliya Dimitrova Nankova, 2017 TUD)

  • · “Ein Vergleich zwischen der Gründerkrise und der Finanzkrise 2007 sowie den daraus folgenden Regulierungsmaßnahmen“ (Andre Sebastian Herget, 2017 TUD)

  • · „Der Dollar – Aufstieg und Bedeutung als internationale Leitwährung“ (Lukas Jäger, 2017 TUD)

  • · „Die Auswirkungen des zweiten Rechenbuchs von Adam Ries auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Deutschlands im 16. Jahrhundert. Eine historische Untersuchung“ (Linda Endres, 2018 TUD)

  • · „Eine Untersuchung über den Zusammenhang von Ungleichheit, Korruption und Wirtschaftswachstum am Beispiel Brasiliens“ (Jonathan Jung, 2018 TUD)

  • · „Das Produktivitätsparadoxon dargestellt am Beispiel Deutschland“ (Zeliah Özer, 2019 TUD)

  • · „Die Wirkungen der Eigentumsstrukturen bei der Eisenbahn. Eine historische und theoretische Untersuchung anhand des Beispiels Deutschlands und anderer ausgewählter Länder“ (Max Thielen, 2020 TUD)

  • · „Eine Untersuchung der Papiergeldgeschichte Chinas“ (Xinyue Lu, 2020 TUD)

  • · „Die Konkurrenz zwischen Schiene und Straße in Deutschland im zeitlichen Verlauf“ (Benedikt Clemens Fröhlich, 2021 TUD)

  • · „Keynes vs. Hayek. Eine Darstellung der unterschiedlichen Konjunkturzyklustheorien“ (Johannes David Mack, 2021 TUD)


Doctoral Supervision

· Chair of thesis defence committee for Georg Man at HU Berlin, March 2008.

Title of Dissertation:

Essays on Imperfectly Competitive Financial Intermediation and the Macroeconomy

Supervisior: Prof. Harald Uhlig, Ph.D. (U Chicago)

Co-supervisor: Prof. Michael. C. Burda, Ph.D. (Humboldt U Berlin)

· Chair of thesis defence committee for Martin Kliem at HU Berlin, July 2009.

Title of Dissertation:

Essays on Asset Pricing and the Macroeconomy

Supervisor: Prof. Harald Uhlig, Ph.D. (U Chicago)

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Michael. C. Burda, Ph.D. (Humboldt U Berlin)


· Chair of thesis defence committee for Stefan Ried at Humboldt U Berlin, July 2009.

Title of Dissertation:

Essays on Macroeconomic Theory as a Guide to Economic Policy

Supervisor: Prof. Harald Uhlig, Ph.D. (U Chicago)

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Michael. C. Burda, Ph.D. (Humboldt U Berlin)

· Chair of thesis defence committee for Christian Stoltenberg at Humboldt U Berlin, July 2009.

Title of Dissertation:

Money Talks and Matters: Three Essays on the Theory of Monetary Policy

Supervisor: Prof. Harald Uhlig, Ph.D. (U Chicago)

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Michael. C. Burda, Ph.D. (Humboldt U Berlin)

· Member of thesis defence committee for Alexander Kriwoluzky at Humboldt U Berlin, July 2009.

Title of Dissertation:

Matching DSGE Models to Data with Applications to Fiscal and Robust Monetary Policy

Supervisor: Prof. Harald Uhlig, Ph.D. (U Chicago)

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Bartosz Mackowiak, Ph.D. (European Central Bank)

Placements

· Kyung-Mo Jung, Dipl. Wirtschaftsingenieur at TUD, 1998, to University of British Columbia (UBC), MSc in Economics.

· Georg Man, Ph.D. in Economics at HUB, to National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, Lecturer in Economics.

· Stefan Zimmermann, BSc 2009 at HUB to Tilburg University, MSc in Economics.

· Guo Xu, BSc at HUB, July 2009, to London School of Economics (LSE), MSc in Development Economics.

· Clemens Bonner, BSc at HUB, August 2009, to Tilburg University, MSc in Economics.

· Daniel Neuhann, BSc at HUB, August 2009, to Tilburg University, MSc in Economics.

· Andreas Menzel, BSc at HUB, 2009, to Tilburg University, MSc in International Economics and Finance.

· Andreas Asseyer, BSc at HUB, 2009, to Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), MSc in Economics.

· Matias Cabello, MSc at HUB, 2010, to Central Bank of Chile.

· Velichka Dimitrova, BSc at HUB, 2010, to Cambridge University, MPhil in Environmental Economics.