I am Professor of Economics in the Economics Department of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

My research is question driven and focuses on the interaction between macroeconomics, international economics, and applied econometrics. I aim to provide new and innovative perspectives on key questions facing societies. Most of my work also has some form of policy focus. Furthermore, I like to build formal theoretical models to capture the economic essence of the real-life problems involved. Such a focus requires adherence to the state-of-the-art in the field, and the readiness to validate the proposed analytical instruments empirically on the basis of replicable data.