Dr. Luna Bellani
Dr. Luna Bellani is an applied microeconomist, specialising in welfare economics. She took up the position of Junior Professor for Public Economics at the University of Konstanz in October 2013. Before this, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies (CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg), where she obtained a grant from the FNR (National Research Fund) for a project on "Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Human Capital Formation". She completed her PhD in Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, in June 2011. Her research covers a wide range of topics in the field of public economics, which she analyses both theoretically and empirically.
Research interests: welfare economics, applied microeconomics, applied microeconometrics.
Junior Professor for Public Economics
Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann
Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann obtained his doctoral degree from the Humboldt University Berlin in 2003. Before taking up the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics in October 2007, he was co-head of the research project on "Unit Roots and Cointegration" within the Collaborative Research Centre "Economic Risk" (SFB 649) at the HU Berlin. In addition, he taught at Mannheim University in 2006/2007 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute, Florence in 2003/2004. His research focuses on econometric methods for the analysis of (multiple) time series and related empirical applications. He has published in international journals including the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Research interests: econometric analysis of cointegrated time series, structural VAR Models, empirical macroeconomics and macroeconometrics, monetary transmission in Europe, forecasting methods.
Chair of Statistics and Econometrics
Dr. Adrian Chadi
Dr. Adrian Chadi took up the position of Junior Professor for Personnel Economics at the University of Konstanz in 2007. Before this, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union at the University of Trier. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Münster in 2011.
Research interests: labour market research, human resources, satisfaction research, behavioural economics, educational economics
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Findeisen
Sebastian Findeisen received his PhD from the University of Zurich in 2013. He was a Posdoc at UC Berkeley and then Junior Professor at the University of Mannheim from 2014 to 2019. In 2018, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute. His current research focuses on the effects of automation and globalisation on the labour market, education policy, regional inequality and gender inequality in the world of work.
Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher
After his doctoral degree in mathematics at the University of Zurich in 1985, Urs Fischbacher worked as a software engineer industry and at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. In 1995, he moved to the University of Zurich as a scientific programmer and lecturer at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, where he received the vina legendi in Economics in 2006. Since October 2007, he has a position as full professor at the University of Konstanz and is director of the Thurgau Institute of Economics in Kreuzlingen (Switzerland). His research focuses on the investigation of non-rational behaviour and non-selfish preferences, both experimentally and theoretically. In collaboration with neuroscientists, he has also contributed to the new field of neuroeconomics, in which the biological foundations of human behaviour in economically relevant situations are investigated. Publications have appeared in journals such as Econometrica, Accounting Review, Nature and Science.
Research interests: experimental and behavioural economics, neuroeconomics, social preferences.
Chair of Applied Research in Economics
Prof. Dr. Marcel Fischer
Marcel Fischer has specialized in studying how market imperfections influence portfolio decisions and asset prices. He has published in academic journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance.
Research interests: portfolio management, household finance, asset pricing, real estate finance, pension finance .
Prof. Dr. Susanne Goldlücke
Prof. Goldlücke received her doctoral degree in economics from the University of Bonn in 2009. After a short time as postdoctoral researcher in the SFB TR 15 on the “Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems”, she took up a position as Assistant Professor of Applied Microeconomic Theory at the University of Mannheim. She joined the University of Konstanz as the Chair of Microeconomic Theory in April 2014. Her research focuses on the game-theoretic analysis of long-term relationships, contracts, contract law and liability. Publications have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the International Economic Review.
Research interests : game theory, contract theory, law and economics.
Prof. Dr. Volker Hahn
Prof. Hahn studied Physics in Hamburg and Heidelberg. After receiving his PhD in economics from the University of Heidelberg, he worked as an economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt. Afterwards, he held positions at the University of Heidelberg and ETH Zurich. He was a visiting professor at the University of Konstanz for two months in 2011 and took up the Chair of International and Monetary Macroeconomics in 2012. He has published papers in international journals like the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Journal of Public Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
Research interests : macroeconomics, in particular monetary economics, political economy.
Chair of International and Monetary Macroeconomics
Prof. Dr. Jens Jackwerth
After receiving his PhD in finance from Goettingen University in 1994, Prof. Jackwerth was a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the UC Berkeley until 1997. He taught at the London Business School until 1999, then at the University of Wisconsin at Madison until 2001, before taking up the Chair of Finance at University of Konstanz. His research interests are in derivative pricing and asset pricing. Questions concern the information contained in option prices and ways to unlock this information. Publications have appeared in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Derivatives.
Research interests: asset pricing, derivative pricing, financial engineering.
Prof. Dr. Axel Kind
Prof. Kind joined the University of Konstanz in October 2013. After obtaining a doctoral degree in economics in 2004 from the University of St. Gallen, Prof. Kind worked, between 2004 and 2007, as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance. From 2008 to 2013 he served as the Head of the Corporate Finance Division at the University of Basel. He also held visiting positions at NYU Stern (2007-2008), UCLA (2003-2004), the Business School of Columbia University (2002-2003), and the University of Novosibirsk (2001). His research has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Empirical Finance, and the Journal of Corporate Finance.
Research interests: corporate finance, corporate governance, option pricing.
Dr. Stephan Maurer
Stephan Maurer obtained a PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics in 2017. He holds Master´s degrees in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the London School of Economics, as well as a Bachelor´s degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen. He joined the University of Konstanz, Department of Economics, as Junior Professor for Labour Economics in 2017. His publication about voting behaviour and public employment in Nazi Germany has appeared in the Journal of Economic History.
Research interests: labour economics, economic history, political economy, economic geography
Prof. Dr. Stefan Niemann
Stefan Niemann studied economics in Bonn and completed his doctorate - with longer stays abroad at the London School of Economics and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. After completing his doctorate, he moved to the University of Essex in 2007, before coming to Konstanz in 2020. His work focuses on macroeconomics, with particular interests in problems of monetary and fiscal policy and the role of financial frictions. His current research focuses on international climate policy and network effects in financial intermediation.
Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier
After completing his doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim, Prof. Pohlmeier spent a research year at Harvard University. In 1994, he took up the Chair of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Konstanz. He is a research professor of the Centre of European Economic Research in Mannheim and research fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA).
Research interests: microeconometrics, labour econometrics, econometrics of ultra-high frequent financial data.
Chair of Economics and Econometrics
Prof. Dr. Almuth Scholl
Prof. Dr. Scholl received her doctorate from the Humboldt University Berlin in 2006. Afterwards, she took up the position of Assistant Professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt. From October 2008 until March 2013 she held the position of Junior Professor for International Economics at the University of Konstanz. In April 2013 she was appointed as Professor for International Economics and Political Economy at the University of Konstanz.
Research interests: international macroeconomics, dynamic contract theory, applied macroeconometrics.
Chair of International Economics and Political Economy
Prof. Dr. Guido Schwerdt
Prof. Schwerdt received his doctoral degree in economics from the European University Institute in Florence in 2007. Before taking up the Chair of Public Economics in Konstanz in April 2014, he held positions as a full professor of economics at the University of Siegen (2013-14), a postdoctoral fellow at the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University (2010-11) and a researcher at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich (2007-10; 2011-13). His research has appeared in many international journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Population Economics, and the Economics of Education Review.
Research interests : economics of education, public economics, labour economics .
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Stefani
Prof. Stefani studied business administration at the University of Tübingen and obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Frankfurt am Main. After completing her habilitation thesis at the University of Zurich, she took up the Chair of Accounting at the University of Konstanz.
Research interests: financial accounting and auditing, business administration.
Jun.-Prof. Ph.D. Haomin Wang
Haomin Wang completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. Following which, she became a postdoctoral fellow at the Paris School of Economics until May 2017. From June 2017 to September 2018, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin. In October 2018, she took up the position as Junior Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Konstanz. Her research interests are labour economics, macroeconomics and applied microeconomics.
Juniorprofessorship in Economics
Dr. rer. pol. Irenaeus Wolff
Dr. Irenaeus Wolff is currently a Research Fellow at the Thurgau Institute of Economics at the University of Konstanz. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Erfurt in 2010, where he was a research assistant at the Chair of Microeconomics. He received a Diploma in Economics from the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg in 2007 and a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Macquarie University, Sydney in 2006. Dr. Wolff teaches several courses and seminars in the field of behavioural and experimental economics for PhD and Master’s students. Furthermore he co-organizes the annual Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting.
Research interests: experimental and behavioural economics, models of bounded rationality, behavioural public choice, evolution of institutions and cooperation, evolutionary biology
Dr. Katarina Zigova
Dr. Katarina Zigova obtained her doctoral degree from the Doctoral Progamme in Quantitative Economics and Finance of the Department of Economics of the University of Konstanz in 2014. Before this, she researched on her thesis “Graphical Models as an Input Selection Technique”, during a two-year postgraduate study programme at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. She received her Master´s degree in Economics and Financial Mathematics in 2000 at the Comenius University in Bratislava. She has published numerous articles in refereed journals and, additionally, she has taught several courses at the University of Konstanz.
Research interests: applied microeconometrics, applied spatial econometrics in the fields of education, personnel economics and social interaction.
Prof. Dr. Nick Zubanov
Prof. Zubanov took up the Chair of Organisational Economics at University of Konstanz in October 2016. After receiving his Ph.D. from University of Birmingham in 2007, he held positions as a full professor at Goethe University Frankfurt (2013-16), an assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2011-13) and at Tilburg University (2009-11) and as a Researcher at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for economic policy analysis (2007-09). His publications have appeared in journals including the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the American Economic Journal and Management Science.
Research interests: employee turnover, personnel diversity and motivation, and incentives
Chair of Organisational Economics