Stefan Bach is research associate at the Public Finance Department at DIW Berlin and lecturer at Potsdam University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. His research work is focused on empirical public finance, especially taxation, social security, distribution of income and wealth, and microsimulation modeling.
Guido Baldi joined DIW Berlin in 2012. He holds a phd in economics from the University of Bern. His main research interests lie in "international macroeconomics" and "political economy".
Research Associate Macroeconomics; Research Associate Forecasting and Economic Policy
Rainer Bartholdt has been Director of the Research Infrastructure Department at DIW Berlin since March 2022. In the past, he has held various positions in the business world as an IT consultant and in corporate IT management, focusing on IT infrastructure, ERP systems, and IT security. Rainer Bartholdt studied computer science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Sebastian joined the Berlin School of Economics as a PhD student in 2019. He obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. Degree in Economics from the University of Bonn. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Applied Microeconomics and the briq Institute on Behavior and Inequality, as well as a teaching assistant at the Institute for Finance and Statistics at the University...
Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Scholarship Recipient Public Economics
Sophie M. Behr joined the DIW Berlin Graduate Center as a PhD candidate in October 2021. Her research interests lie in climate economics and policy, and particularly include circular economy and carbon pricing. Sophie holds a BSc in Economics from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and a MSc in Economics from the University of Hamburg and spent parts of her studies at the University of Bologna,...
Lea Bernhardt is a research associate in the Firms and Markets Department. Her research topics and work areas are empirical industrial economics, competition policy as well as platform and media economics. She received her PhD in Hamburg and previously completed her MSc in St Andrews and BSc in Mainz. She has also worked for Berenberg Bank in Hamburg and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.
