Prof. Dr. Tino Berger and Assistant Professor Dr. Holger A. Rau joined the Faculty
On 1 September 2014, Prof. Dr. Tino Berger accepted an appointment as the Chair of Empirical International Economics. He succeeds Prof. Ingo Geisheker, PhD who joined the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt-Oder in the summer semester of 2013. Most recently, Prof. Berger was an Assistant Professor at the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at the University of Cologne. Prof. Berger's research interests lie in the areas of empirical macroeconomics, time series econometrics, and Bayesian econometrics. He will be offering courses for both bachelor's and master's programmes.
Tino Berger, born in 1978, studied economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen until 2002. He then successfully completed a one-year master's degree in money, banking, and finance at the University of Birmingham in England. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Gent in Belgium in 2008. His dissertation was supervised by Prof. Dr. Gerdie Everaert and titled "Identifying and Explaining Structural Unemployment".
From 2008 to 2011, Prof. Berger was employed at the Institute for International Economics at the University of Muenster (under Prof. Dr. Bernd Kempa). Prof. Berger also participated in two research stays in the US, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Holger A. Rau joined the faculty on 1 September 2014 as an Assistant Professor for the Chair of Experimental Economics. The assistant professorship position was newly created for this chair.
His research focus includes experimental economics, social preferences, gender differences in behavioral economics, and behavioral finance. At the faculty of economics, he will primarily offer economics courses to bachelor's and master's students.
Holger Rau, born in 1980, studied economics at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg. He then earned his PhD in 2012 at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf. His doctoral thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans-Theo Normann, and was titled "The Impacts of Social Preferences and Biases on Individual and Group Decision Making: Four Essays in Experimental Economics".
During his doctoral studies, he spent several months in 2012 at the Economic Science Institute (ESI) at Chapman University in Orange, CA, US.
After completing his PhD, Dr. Rau worked as a post-doc at DICE, followed by a post-doc position at the Chair of Economic Theory at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Department of Economics.