Alumni
Since the start of the RGS programm in 2004 the number of completed PhD studies has been steadily increasing. Alumni of RGS Econ are successfully placed in renowned academic institutions and leading enterprises all around the world.
Dr. Daniel Baumgarten (Research Scientist, RWI, Berlin)
Title of Dissertation: Labor Market Dynamics and Globalization
Dr. Christoph Braun (KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft)
Title of Dissertation: Optimal Taxation of Human Capital Investments
Dr. Christian Bredemeier (Research Scientist, TU Dortmund)
Title of Dissertation: Essays on heterogeneous agents: political economy and labor markets
HomepageDr. Jan Brenner (1978-2009, Research Scientist, RWI, Essen)
Title of Dissertation: Empirical Evidence on the Integration of Immigrants
Dr. Peggy Bechara (Research Scientist, RWI, Essen)
Title of Dissertation: Heterogeneity in Job and Wage Mobility
Dr. Frauke Dobnik (Research Scientist, University Duisburg-Essen)
Title of Dissertation: Non-stationary Panels and Cross-section Dependence: Applications to Macroeconomic Research Questions
Dr. Yiquan Gu (Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool)
Title of Dissertation: Essays on Industrial and Societal Organization: Certification, Variety and Concern for Face
Dr. Christoph Hanck (Assistant Professor, University of Groningen)
Title of Dissertation: Testing in Nonstationary and Dependent Panels with Ap-plications to Purchasing Power Parity
HomepageDr. Annika Herr (Research Scientist, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE))
Title of Dissertation: On Hosptial Competition: Quality, Efficiency, and Ownership
HomepageDr. Jan Heufer (Research Scientist, TU Dortmund)
Title of Dissertation: Essays in Revealed Preference: Contributions to the Theory of Consumer's Behavior
Dr. Markus Hörmann
Title of Dissertation: Interest Rates, Liquidity, and Optimal Monetary Policy
Dr. Matthias Keese (ThyssenKrupp Management Consulting)
Title of Dissertation: Saving in an aging society - Empirical issues in old-age provision and household debt
Dr. Alesia Khudnitskaya (Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt)
Title of Dissertation: Integrating Statistical Credit Scoring into the Retail Business Cycle
Dr. Stefanie Neimann (Knappschaft-Bahn-See, Bochum)
Title of Dissertation: "Two people gotta stick together...'' - Four essays on the interrelationship between marriage-related and economic decisions
Dr. Alfredo Paloyo (Research Scientist, RWI, Essen)
Title of Dissertation: The armed forces and society: econometric analyses of a military drawdown and compulsory military service
Dr. Vivien Procher (Research Scientist, RWI, Essen, RGS Managing Director)
Title of Dissertation: The Internationalization of French Firms
Dr. Sebastian Rausch (Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title of Dissertation: Macroeconomic Consequences of Demographic Change: Modeling Issues and Applications
HomepageDr. Malte Rieth (Landesbank Berlin AG, Berlin)
Title of Dissertation: Risk Premia and Sovereign Default
Dr. Sina Risse (Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Düsseldorf)
Title of Dissertation: On Negatively Interdependent Preferences in Rent-Seeking Contests
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hendrik Schmitz (University Duisburg-Essen)
Title of Dissertation: Searching for sources of inefficiency in the German health care sector: demand-side, supply-side, and labour-force-status effects on health and health care utilisation
Dr. Stefanie Schurer (Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance, New Zealand)
Title of Dissertation: The Role of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Labour and Health Economics
HomepageDr. Pavel Stoimenov (Researcher Scientist, TU Dortmund)
Title of Dissertation: A Measure of Mutual Complete Dependence
HomepageDr. Baudouin Tameze Azamo (Mainova AG, Frankfurt)
Title of Dissertation: Minimum Distance Estimation of GARCH (1,1)-models
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Wenzel (Junior Professor, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE))
Title of Dissertation: On Product Differentiation and Shopping Hours - Five Essays in Industrial Organization
HomepageMaarten van Kampen (Research Scientist, TU Dortmund)
Title of Dissertation: Copula Constancy Tests