Department of Economics

		Prof. Dr. Tino Berger - Chair of Empirical International Economics Empirical macroeconomics Time series econometrics Bayesian econometrics
		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. 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 Development economics Behavioral economics Economics of crime
		Prof. Dr. Claudia Keser – Chair of Microeconomics Experimental economics Microeconomics Game theory
		Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos – Chair of International Economic Policy Globalisation and development Economic policy and political economy Applied microeconometrics
		Prof. Stephan Klasen, Ph.D. – Chair of Development Economics Analysis of poverty, inequality and pro-poor growth in developing and transition countries, esp. with focus on gender-specific inequality Determinants of undernutrition and child mortality in developing countries Influence of aid on trade between donor and recipient countries Aid effectiveness using econometric impact evaluations The linkages between poverty reduction and environmental decay in developing countries
		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. Renate Ohr – Chair of Economic Policy, esp. International Economic Policy European integration European monetary union Exchange rate policy International competitiveness of countries
		Assistant Professor Dr. Holger A. Rau – Chair of Experimental Economics ('Juniorprofessur') Experimental economics Gender differences Behavioral finance
		Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rübel – Chair of International and Monetary Economics Monetary theory Monetary politics Monetary economics International economic relationships
		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
		Assistant Professor Dr. Marco M. Sorge, Ph.D. - Chair of International Macroeconomics ('Juniorprofessur') Computational economics Dynamic macroeconomics Political economy
		Prof. Dr. Holger Strulik – Chair of Macroeconomics and Development Economic growth and development Population economics Dynamic macro Health and aging
		Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer – Chair of Development Economics/ Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) Development economics Population economics Global health Poverty and inequality