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Women Economists Network

Introduction

Treffen des Ökonominnen-Netzwerks

© BMWK / Andreas Mertens

Tasks

The Women Economists Network is a group of female economists, all of them (junior) professors, who advise the Ministry on current economic policy issues. To this end, the network provides accessible and agile advice on economic policy topics, specific policy proposals and consultations of the respective divisions of the Ministry, complementing established scientific policy advisory bodies. The relatively young members, along with the focus on female professors, contribute to a more diverse and enriched exchange between politics and academia.

The network also serves as a forum for collecting new impulses for economic policy, communicating issues relevant to economic policy to the scientific community, and discussing possible solutions. In order to strengthen the evidence base, the collaboration also aims to improve data access in Germany.

Origins

The network formally exists since April 24, 2024 and was established to strengthen evidence-based, accessible, and agile policy advice at the BMWE. In addition, female economists are structurally underrepresented in scientific policy advice, potential scientific expertise remains underutilized. In light of this and the BMWE’s institutional responsibility for gender equality in committee appointments, another key aim is to increase the visibility of female economists.

Members

The network consists of female academics with proven expertise who work in the field of economics as assistant or full professors. Its composition reflects the various fields within economics. The number of members is limited to a maximum of 20.

Current Members

Prof. Anna Bindler, Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Microeconomics, University of Potsdam
Head of the Department of Crime, Labour and Inequality at DIW Berlin
Main areas of research: Applied microeconomics, specifically crime research, law and economics, labour economics

Prof. Dr. Lena Dräger
Professor of Money and International Finance, Leibniz University Hannover
Main research areas: Monetary macroeconomics, formation of macroeconomic expectations, household finance, central bank communication

Prof. Dr. Nadja Dwenger
Professor of Economics, specifically public economics, University of Hohenheim
Main areas of research: Tax and social policy, public administration, experimental economic research

Prof. Dr. Katharina Erhardt
Professor of economic policy, specifically trade and competition policy, HHU Düsseldorf
Main research areas: International trade, regional economics, applied econometrics

Prof. Dr. Lisandra Flach
Professor of Economics, specifically the economics of globalisation, LMU Munich
Head of the ifo Center for International Economics
Main areas of research: International trade policy, empirical international trade economics

Prof. Dr. Britta Gehrke
Professor of Macroeconomics, FU Berlin
Main research areas: Applied and international macroeconomics, business cycles, labour markets, monetary and fiscal policy

Prof. Kathrine von Graevenitz, Ph.D.
Professor of Empirical Environmental Economics, University of Mannheim
Deputy Head of the ZEW Research Unit ‘Environmental and Climate Economics’
Main research areas: Environmental and climate economics, urban and regional economics, applied econometrics

Prof. Dr. Anna Gumpert
Professor of Economics, specifically International Economics and European
Integration, University of Tübingen
Main research areas: International economics, digitalisation, economics of public administration

Prof. Ines Helm, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, JKU Linz
Main research areas: Applied microeconomics, labour economics, regional economics

Prof. Dr. Carla Krolage
Professor of Economic Data Science, University of Regensburg
Research Director of the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys
Main areas of research: Finance, regional economics, corporate behaviour

Prof. Dr. Dominika Langenmayr
Professor of Economics, specifically Public Finance, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Main areas of research: Taxation, international tax policy

Prof. Dr. Sarah Necker
Professor of Economics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Head of Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics
Main research areas: Finance, labour economics, behavioural economics

Prof. Dr. Miriam Rehm
Professor of Socioeconomics, specifically empirical inequality research, University of Duisburg-Essen
Main research areas: Inequality, labour economics, gender studies, quantitative empirical methods

J.-Prof. Dr. Amelie Schiprowski
Junior Professor of Economics, University of Bonn
Main research areas: Empirical labour economics, public economics, applied microeconomics

Prof. Dr. Marina Schröder
Professor of Innovation Economics, Leibniz University Hannover
Main research areas: Innovation economics, behavioural economics, organisational economics

Prof. Dr. Franziska Schünemann
Professor of Bioeconomics, University of Hohenheim
Main research areas: Bioeconomy, climate and agricultural economics

Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern
Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Digital Health, Economics and Policy, Hasso Plattner Institute & University of Potsdam
Main research areas: Technology management and innovation in health care

Prof. Dr. Amelie Wuppermann
Professor of Economics, specifically Public Finance, University of Bayreuth

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