Team

Zareh Asatryan

Zareh Asatryan is Deputy Head of ZEW’s Research Unit “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance”. Zareh Asatryan’s primary research interests are public finance, political economics, and development economics.

For further information please visit Zareh Asatryan’s personal webpage.


Thushyanthan Baskaran

Thushyanthan Baskaran is a Professor for Public and Regional Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). He is also a research associate at the ZEW Mannheim and a CESifo Fellow. His current research focuses on public economics, regional economics and development economics, covering topics such as fiscal capacity, administrative borders, political selection, and economic development.

To learn more about him and his work, please visit his personal website.


Carlo Birkholz

Carlo Birkholz is a PhD candidate at the University of Mannheim, and researcher in the Department of Public Finance and Corporate Taxation at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic. He is also an external affiliate of the Norwegian Centre for Taxation (NoCeT). His broad research interests are in the fields of Development Economics, Political Economy, and Public Finance.

For more information visit: https://carlo-birkholz.github.io/.


Pietro Bomprezzi

Pietro Bomprezzi is a member of the International Finance and Macroeconomics Research Center at the Kiel Institute and one of the project leaders for the Ukraine Support Tracker. His research background is in international finance and political economy of development. As part of his doctoral thesis at the University of Milan-Bicocca, he studied political distortions in the allocation of aid. He has also been a visiting scientist during his PhD at the Strategy, Policy, and Review department of the IMF and has done policy research at the Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission.

For more information visit: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/experts/pietro-bomprezzi/


Axel Dreher

Axel Dreher is professor of International and Development Politics at Heidelberg University and Editor of the Review of International Organizations. He is Co-Director of CefES, Faculty Associate of AidData, and Fellow of CEPR, CESifo, KOF, and EUDN. Most of his research is in the fields of political economy and economic development.

For more information visit: https://axel-dreher.de/


Andreas Fuchs

Andreas Fuchs is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen and Head of the Kiel Institute China Initiative. His research analyzes trade, investment and development policies with quantitative methods and a special focus on China and other emerging economies. He also investigates the political economy of natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and non-militarized conflicts.

For more information visit: http://andreas-fuchs.weebly.com/


Teresa Hailer

Teresa Hailer is a PhD candidate at the Chair of International and Development Politics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher, at the University of Heidelberg. Her research interests lie mainly in political economy, especially on feminist economics and the role of women.

For more information visit: https://www.awi.uni-heidelberg.de/en/professorships/international-development-economics/teresa-hailer-ma


Patrick Hufschmidt

Patrick Hufschmidt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Dortmund, within the Chair of Public Economics. In his research, he utilizes microeconometric methods and geospatial data to shed light on how political decisions influence the economy.

For more information please visit his personal website


Andreas Kammerlander

Andreas Kammerlander earned his PhD at the Chair of International Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg. He studied economics at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Freiburg. Currently, he works as a data analyst at ZDF Digital. His previous research mainly focused on the determinants of environmental pollution.


Lennart Kaplan

Lennart Kaplan is a postdoctoral researcher at Göttingen University as well as an associate researcher at IfW, Kiel and IDOS, Bonn. Lennart works on the socio-economic effects and the political economy of trade and development finance.

For more information visit: https://sites.google.com/view/lennart-kaplan/home


Silvia Marchesi

Silvia Marchesi is Professor of Economics at the University of Milano Bicocca and Vice Director of the Center for European Studies (CefES). She holds a doctoral degree from Warwick University (UK) (2001). Her research interests are in Macro Development with a particular focus on International Finance and Sovereign Debt.

For more information visit: https://sites.google.com/site/ssilviamarchesi/home


Tania Masi

Tania Masi is an Assistant Professor at the ‘G. d’Annunzio’ University of Chieti-Pescara and a Research Fellow at the Center for European Studies (CefES). She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Verona. Her research interests focus on the economic effects of aid, natural resources, and financial crises.

For more information visit: https://sites.google.com/view/taniamasi


Charlotte Robert

Charlotte Robert is a PhD candidate at Heidelberg Univeristy under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher. Her research interests lie in the political economy of development finance and poverty measurements.

For more information visit: https://www.awi.uni-heidelberg.de/en/chairs/international-development-economics/charlotte-robert-msc


Kerstin Unfried

Kerstin Unfried is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM). She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Göttingen. Her research interests are in the field of the economics of conflict, health in developing countries, and political economy.

For more information visit: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/kerstin+unfried/546047.html