Department of Economics

		Prof. Dr. Tino Berger - Chair of Empirical International Economics Empirical macroeconomics Time series econometrics Bayesian econometrics
		Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bergherr - Chair of Spatial Data Science and Statistical Learning Bayesian Inference Gradient Boosting Joint Modelling Geoadditive Modelling
		Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berghoff - Chair of Economic and Social History Business history History of consumption History of globalisation
		Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer - Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research Institutional economics Experimental economics Environmental and regional economics SME research
		Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs - Chair of Development Economics Development Economics (with a focus on Development Finance and Humanitarian Crises) International (Political) Economics (with a focus on Trade, Investment, and International Organizations) Regional focus: China/Emerging Asia
		Prof. Dr. Helmut Herwartz - Chair of Econometrics Stochastic volatility models Resampling procedures Panel error correction models State space models
		Prof. Marcela Ibañez Diaz, Ph.D. – Chair of Development Economics Behavioral development economics Labour economics Policy evaluation
		Prof. Dr. Claudia Keser – Chair of Microeconomics Experimental economics Behavioral economics Game theory
		Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos – Chair of International Economic Policy Globalisation and development Economic policy and political economy Applied microeconometrics
		Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib – Chair of Statistics Mixed model based inference in structured additive regression Quantile and expectile regression Distributional regression / generalised additive models for location, scale and shape Bayesian regularisation priors Boosting semiparametric regression models Spatial statistics Regression models for categorical responses Structured hazard regression Multi-state-models
		Prof. Dr. Udo Kreickemeier – Professur für Internationale Ökonomik Influence of foreign trade and offshoring on the labour market Distributional effects of globalization
		Prof. Dr. Robert Schwager – Chair of Public Economics Political economy of the federalism Education economics and education policy Local tax revenue sharing Tax revenue sharing and tax competition Taxation of mobile labour The impact of media on public expenditures Electoral competition and political rents
		Prof. Dr. Holger Strulik – Chair of Macroeconomics and Development Economic growth and development Population economics Dynamic macro Health and aging
		Prof. Dr. Florian Unger – Chair of International Trade ('Juniorprofessur') Credit frictions and globalization Innovation and international trade Corporate taxation and export behaviour
		Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer – Chair of Development Economics/ Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) Development economics Population economics Global health Poverty and inequality