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