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Christian Wittneben

Junior Economist and Doctoral Student

ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys

University of Munich

Biography

I’m an Economist at the ifo Institute in the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys. Before, I was PhD student at the University of Munich. I defended my thesis in July 2019.

During summer 2019, I worked at the European Central Bank in the Supply Side, Labour and Surveillance Division as a PhD trainee.

My research interests include macroeconomics and inequality, fiscal policy and labor supply. I have developed a random utility discrete choice model to estimate household responses to the tax and transfer system using the tax model EUROMOD. I also work with heterogeneous agent models on automatic stabilizers.

Interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Public Finance
  • Labor Economics

Education

  • PhD student in Economics, defended in July 2019

    University of Munich

  • MSc in Economics, 2013

    University of Cologne

  • BSc in Economics, 2010

    University of Cologne

  • Visiting Student, 2009

    Trinity College Dublin

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Economist

ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys, ifo Institute

Oct 2019 – Present Munich
 
 
 
 
 

PhD Trainee

European Central Bank

Jul 2019 – Sep 2019 Frankfurt
Supply Side, Labour and Surveillance Division, DG Economics
 
 
 
 
 

Junior Economist and Doctoral Student

ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys, ifo Institute

Aug 2017 – Jun 2019 Munich
 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral student

University of Munich

Aug 2017 – Jul 2019 Munich

Defended in July 2019

Supervisor: Andreas Peichl

 
 
 
 
 

Researcher and Doctoral Student

Research Group International Distribution and Redistribution, ZEW Mannheim

Sep 2013 – Jul 2017 Mannheim
 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral student

Goethe-University

Aug 2013 – Sep 2014 Frankfurt am Main
First year courses in the GSEFM PhD program.
 
 
 
 
 

MSc and BSc in Economics

University of Cologne

Oct 2007 – Jul 2013 Cologne
Visiting student, Trinity College Dublin (September 2009 - December 2009)

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