Faculty

Prof. Dr. Philipp Harms

Philipp Harms, Professor of International Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, received his doctorate from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) in 1999. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty of the University of Konstanz where he worked as an assistant professor from 1999 through 2004. He also taught classes in macroeconomics and monetary economics at the Universities of St. Gallen and Lausanne and is part of the faculty at the Study Center Gerzensee (Switzerland). Before joining Johannes Gutenberg University, he was professor of macroeconomics at RWTH Aachen University.

His recent publications include “Offshoring and sequential production chains: a general-equilibrium analysis” (with Jaewon Jung and Oliver Lorz), forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics, 2021; “Depression of the deprived or eroding enthusiasm of the elites: What has shifted the support for international trade?”” (with Jakob Schwab), European Journal of Political Economy, 2020; “Is money where the fun ends? Material interests and individuals’ preference for direct democracy” (with Claudia Landwehr), European Journal of Political Economy, 2020; “Like it or not? How the economic and institutional environment shapes individual attitudes towards multinational enterprises” (with Jakob Schwab), The World Economy, 2019; “Good and useless FDI: the growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions” (with Pierre-Guillaume Méon), Review of International Economics, 2018; “The home bias in equities and distribution costs” (with Mathias Hoffmann and Christina Ortseifer), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Schunk

Daniel Schunk, professor of public and behavioral economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, received his doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim. Upon completion of his doctorate, he worked at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and was a visiting scholar at George Mason University in Virginia (USA). Daniel Schunk is also a senior research fellow of the Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA), an affiliate of the CESifo at the University of Munich, a research fellow at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BIB) and a permanent research fellow at the University of Zurich.

His research focuses on public policy, behavioral and experimental economics, economics of education as well as survey design and methodology. Recent publications include “Teaching Self-Regulation” (with E. Berger, H. Hermes, K. Winkel and E. Fehr), Nature Human Behaviour 2022, “The Many Faces of Human Sociality – Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences.” (with A. Bruhin and E. Fehr), Journal of the European Economic Association 2019; “Temptation and Commitment in the Laboratory” (with D. Houser, J. Winter, and E. Xiao), Games and Economic Behavior 2018; “Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Professional Soccer” (with B. Bartling and L. Brandes), Management Science 2015. He also publishes regularly in the domains of life and behavioral sciences and statistics in journals such as Nature Genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics, Advances in Statistical Analysis.

Prof. Dr. Salvatore Barbaro

Salvatore Barbaro studied Economics, Business Education and German studies at the University of Göttingen. After finishing his PhD at the University of Göttingen in 2004, he joined the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz as a research assistant, where he held, among other positions, temporary the Chair of Finance.

In 2010, Salvatore Barbaro was appointed State Secretary of Finance for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and held this office until 2016. From 2016 to 2019 he was State Secretary for Science, Continuing Education and Culture. In addition, he has been a Chairman of Supervisory Boards for a number of companies from various sectors, including hospitals, banks, airports and gambling companies.

Since returning to academia in 2019, Salvatore Barbaro has been teaching and researching at the University of Mainz. His research interests are concerned with topics in public finance and in fiscal federalism and social choice in particular. His research focuses on collective decision making. Recent publications include "Price-shifting fungibility", Regional Studies, Regional Science (2022), "Shilling, Squeezing, Sniping. A further explanation for late bidding in online second-price auctions", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (2021).

Prof. Dr. Reyn van Ewijk

Reyn van Ewijk studied both psychology and economics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and received his doctoral degree in Applied Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam in 2009. He worked as a postdoc at the economics department of VU University Amsterdam and as a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics. From 2011-2014, he was an assistant professor at the University Medical Center Mainz, Institute for Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics. In 2014, he took over the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

His research has a strongly interdisciplinary focus. Much of it focuses on research questions that are at the intersection of the medical/epidemiological and the econometric domain. For example, he investigates how the circumstances and exposures that we encounter during our earliest stages of life (e.g., nutrition, pollution, climate), shape our health for life. He aims to answer such research questions using econometric techniques, analyzing large databases such as registry, biobank or survey data.

He publishes in renowned journals from various research fields, including economics (American Economic Journal–Applied Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics), medicine/epidemiology (American Journal of Epidemiology, European Journal of Cancer) and educational psychology (Educational Research Review), as well as in interdisciplinary journals (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).

Prof. Dr. Florian Hett

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Florian Hett is professor of Digital Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz. After receiving a diploma (2009) and a PhD (2014) in Economics he became a member of the Management and Microeconomics group at Goethe University Frankfurt before joining the University of Mainz in April 2018. He is an associated researcher at the Frankfurt Laboratory for Experimental Economic Research (FLEX), the Mainz Behavioral and Experimental Laboratory (MABELLA), the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, and the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO). Further, he is a member of the research unit Interdisciplinary Public Policy at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, as well as the committee for Organizational Economics of the German Economic Association.

His research deals with experimental data science, household finance, and behavioral economics featuring theoretical as well as empirical methods. A particular focus is on understanding how individuals behave in digital environments by combining data from digital sources with behavioral experimental measures. He has published in the Economic Journal, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, and the European Economic Review.

Dr. Miriam Kohl

Miriam Kohl joined the Johannes Gutenberg-University as a postdoctoral researcher in 2019 after having received her doctorate from the University of Dresden. She studied Economics at the University of Tübingen and the University College London.

Her research focuses on the interaction of globalization and public policy. She works on the effects of globalization in the presence of a welfare state redistributing income, the spillover effects of unilateral tax policy in the open economy and the distributional effects of trade policy. Her recent paper “Redistribution, Selection, and Trade” has been published in the Journal of International Economics, 2020.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Lassmann

Andrea Lassmann, Professor of International Economic Policy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since January 2020, received her doctoral degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), where she was also part of the research division Macroeconomic Forecasting at KOF Swiss Economic Institute. She subsequently worked at ETH as a postdoctoral researcher and joined the OECD’s Trade and Agriculture Directorate as a trade policy analyst in the Trade in Services division thereafter.

Her research focuses on applied international and public economics, as well as regional and cultural economics. She has published in various journals such as The Economic Journal and the European Economic Review. Her research has also been featured in the media and awarded the Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize. She also consults multilateral organizations and is a member of several committees.

Prof. Dr. Philip Sauré

Philip Sauré, is Professor of International Finance at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2018. He received his doctoral degree from the Universitat Pompeu Farbra (Barcelona) in 2005 and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. From 2007 to 2017 Philip Sauré worked at the SNB, Switzerland’s central bank. He is a fellow at the CEPR and the CESifo institute.

Philip Sauré’s research interests lie in the areas of international macroeconomics and international trade, with recent research focusing on the transmission of cross-border shocks and their domestic effects. Latest publications include “The Speed of Exchange Rate Pass Through” joint with Barthélémy Bonadio and Andreas Fischer (Journal of the European Economic Association 2020), “International Inflation Spillovers Through Input Linkages” joint with Raphael Auer und Andrei Levchenko (Review of Economics and Statistics 2019), “Dynamic Entry in Vertically Differentiated Markets” joint with Raphael Auer (Journal of Economic Theory 2018), “Repatriation of Debt in the Euro Crisis” joint with Filippo Brutti (Journal of the European Economic Association 2016) and “Transmission of Sovereign Risk in the Euro Crisis” joint with Filippo Brutti (Journal of International Economics 2015).

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schank

Thorsten Schank, Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, studied economics at the Universities of Mainz, Heidelberg and Manchester (UK). Upon completion of his PhD at the University of Manchester (2001), he was researcher at the Institute of Employment Research (IAB) and assistant professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, before he joined the University of Mainz in 2010. He is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn and at the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER), Nürnberg and holds a research professorship at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).

His research interests are mainly in applied labour economics. He is currently investigating topics like the spill-over effects of gender board diversity, the impact of the minimum wage on labour market outcomes, the effect of the internet on the job finding rate and chances of welfare recipients to find regular jobs.  His publications include: “Wage inequality in Germany after the minimum wage introduction (with Mario Bossler), forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics, “More female manager hires through more female managers? (with M. Bossler and A. Mosthaf), Industrial Labor Relations Review 2020, “Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers?” (with M. Andrews and R. Upward), World Economy 2017,  “Foreign-owned firms around the world: a comparative analysis of wages and employment at the micro-level” (with A. Hijzen, P. Martins and R. Upward), European Economic Review, 2013, "Differences in labor supply to monopsonistic firms and the gender pay gap'' (with B. Hirsch and C. Schnabel), Journal of Labor Economics, 2010; "High wage workers and low wage firms: negative assortative matching or limited mobility bias'' (with M.J. Andrews, L. Gill and R. Upward), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2008; "Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from linked employer-employee data'' (with C. Schnabel and J. Wagner), Journal of International Economics 2007.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Iryna Stewen

Iryna Stewen is an Assistant Professor of International Economics (esp. International Macroeconomics and Finance) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She joined the Faculty of Law, Management and Economics and the Gutenberg School of Management and Economics in 2011.

Before joining the University of Mainz she received her PhD in Economics in 2011 from the University of Zurich and a MA in Economics in 2006 from the University of Dortmund.

Iryna Stewen's main research focuses on international/intranational macroeconomics and financial intermediation.  In particular she is interested how financial and banking systems and different aspects of financial integration affect real economic outcomes.  Her research often studies regions within countries as potential paradigms for perfectly integrated financial markets.

Iryna Stewen has published in the Journal of European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, and the IMF Economic Review.

Prof. Dr. Klaus Wälde

Klaus Wälde received his doctorate in economics from the University of Kiel in 1994. Prior to joining the faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2009, he was a faculty member at the Universities of Glasgow, Würzburg, and Dresden. He has held visiting appointments inter alia at the World Bank, the European Commission and IZA Institute of Labor Economics. He is a Research Fellow at CESifo and IZA and liaison lecturer (‘Vertrauensdozent’) of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. He completed a five-year research position at the Gutenberg Research College in 2014. Ever since the birth of his two daughters he has been wondering about how work-life-balance works.

His research focuses on the analysis of labor markets, wealth distributions, emotional economics and, in 2020 and 2021, on Covid-19. His publications include "Optimal Saving under Poisson Uncertainty", Journal of Economic Theory, 1999; "Endogenous Growth Cycles", International Economic Review, 2005; "How Trade Unions Increase Welfare", (with A. Donado), Economic Journal, 2012; "Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits", (with A. Launov), International Economic Review, 2013; "The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency" (with A. Launov), European Economic Review, 2016; "Current Emotion Research in Economics" (with Agnes Moors), Emotion Review, 2017 and "Face Masks Considerably Reduce Covid‐19 Cases in Germany " (with Timo Mitze, Reinhold Kosfeld and Johannes Rode), Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2020.

Dr. Fabienne Pradella

Fabienne Pradella is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics. After studying European Studies (B.A.) at Maastricht University and Food and Resource Economics (M.Sc.) at the University of Bonn, she received her doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Mainz.

Her research concentrates on the developmental origins of health and disease. Her current work in the framework of a joint DFG project of the University of Mainz and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research/ Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin investigates how weather fluctuations and pollution in early life – starting at its earliest stages in utero - are related to health and human capital outcomes over the life course. Located at the intersection between economics/econometrics and epidemiology/medicine, her research activities thus reflect her interdisciplinary background. One of the chapters of her doctoral thesis was published in The American Journal of Epidemiology (2018).

Dr. Katharina Hartinger

Katharina Hartinger joined the Chair of Public and Behavioral Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University in October 2022. She is currently in the final stage of obtaining her PhD from the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt and is a regular visitor at UC Berkeley. Recently, she has received the European Economic Association’s inaugural Award for Exceptional Teaching.

As an applied economist with a focus on education and innovation, she studies cultural and behavioral determinants of economic decision-making. In her often interdisciplinary research, she covers a wide range of topics – from the effects of cultural individualism on human capital to the role of curiosity in gambling and investment decisions.