ehemalige Teammitglieder

Ehemalige Mitarbeiter

Dr. Ferdinand Fichtner

Former Academic Staff

Dr. Ferdinand Fichtner

Curriculum Vitae:

Erstanstellung nach Promotion: Europäische Zentralbank

Education

February 2006 – April 2006Visiting researcher, Institute of Economic Policy I (Harald Uhlig) and SFB 649, Humboldt University Berlin
2002 - 2008PhD studies, University of Cologne
November 2002Degree in Economics
April 1999 – November 2002University of Cologne
Graduate studies, Economics
October 1996 – July 1998University of Heidelberg
Undergraduate studies, Economics

 
Selected Work Experience

Since July 2008Post-Doctoral Researcher at the European Central Bank

April 2007 - June 2008

Research and teaching assistant for Prof. Dr. Volker Clausen, Chair of International Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen
July 2007 – October 2007Internship, European Central Bank, External Developments Division, DG Economics
December 2002 – February 2007Research and teaching assistant for Prof. Dr. Juergen B. Donges, Chair of Economic Policy, University of Cologne
August 1999 – November 2002Student assistant, Chair of Economic Policy, University of Cologne
September 2001 – October 2001Internship, Instituto de Estudios Económicos, Madrid
August 1998 – February 1999

Internship, Scientific American, New York City

  

Fields of Research:

  • Open Economy Macroeconomics
  • Applied Macroeconomics
  • DSGE-Modeling
  • Business Cycle Analysis
  • PhD Thesis: Optimum Currency Area Theory Revisited - New Insights From Stochastic Dynamics

Projects:

Publications:

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  • Fichtner, F.: Optimum Currency Area Theory Revisited - New Insights From Stochastic Dynamics (1). 2008. CitationDetails
  • Fichtner, F.: Germany and the European Business Cycle - An Analysis of Causal Relations in an International Real Business Cycle Model. In: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, Vol 54 (2003). PDFCitationDetails

Conferences:

  • Optimum Currency Area Revisited - An NOEM Approach, Jahrestagung des Verein für Socialpolitik, Bayreuth, 26-29 September 2006.
  • Business Cycle Synchronization in Europe - The Role of Price and Wage Rigidities, RES Annual Conference 2006, Nottingham, 18-20 April 2006.
  • Business Cycle Synchronization in Europe - The Role of Price and Wage Rigidities, EEA Congress 2005, Amsterdam, 24-27 August 2005.
  • Business Cycle Synchronization in Europe - The Impact of Price and Wage Rigidities, ZEI Summer School 2005 on Monetary Theory and Policy, 11-19 July 2005, Bad Honnef.
  • The European Business Cycle in a Redux World, Forschungsseminar "Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung", University of Hamburg, 7 December 2004.
  • The European Business Cycle in a Redux World, 5. IWH Workshop in Macroeconometrics, 2 December - 3 December 2004, Halle.
  • The European Business Cycle in a Redux World, CFS Summer School 2004, "International Macroeconomics", 24 August - 30 August 2004, Eltville.
  • The European Business Cycle in a Redux World, ZEI Summer School 2004 on Monetary Theory and Policy, 29 July - 07 August 2004, Bad Honnef.
  • Macroeconomic Sychronization in Europe -- Analysis in an International Real Business Cycle Model, CFS Summer School 2003, "Empirical Methods For Building Macroeconomic Models", 11 August - 18 August 2003, Eltville.
  • Deutschland und der europäische Konjunkturverbund - Analyse möglicher Kausalbeziehungen in einem Modell des internationalen Konjunkturzyklus, 66. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschungsinstitute (ARGE) e. V., 15 May 2003, Berlin.