ehemalige Teammitglieder
Ehemalige Mitarbeiter
Former Academic Staff
Dr. Ferdinand Fichtner
Curriculum Vitae:
Erstanstellung nach Promotion: Europäische Zentralbank
Education
| February 2006 – April 2006 | Visiting researcher, Institute of Economic Policy I (Harald Uhlig) and SFB 649, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2002 - 2008 | PhD studies, University of Cologne |
| November 2002 | Degree in Economics |
| April 1999 – November 2002 | University of Cologne Graduate studies, Economics |
| October 1996 – July 1998 | University of Heidelberg Undergraduate studies, Economics |
Selected Work Experience
| Since July 2008 | Post-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 2007 | Internship, European Central Bank, External Developments Division, DG Economics |
| December 2002 – February 2007 | Research and teaching assistant for Prof. Dr. Juergen B. Donges, Chair of Economic Policy, University of Cologne |
| August 1999 – November 2002 | Student assistant, Chair of Economic Policy, University of Cologne |
| September 2001 – October 2001 | Internship, 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:
- Optimum Currency Area Theory Revisited -- What Can we Learn From Stochastic Dynamics?, Version: January 30, 2008, preliminary.
- Business Cycle Synchronization in Europe -- The Role of Price and Wage Rigidities, Version: April 16, 2005, very preliminary and incomplete.
- Macroeconomic Sychronization in Europe -- Analysis in an International Real Business Cycle Model, Paper prepared for the CFS Summer School 2003, "Empirical Methods For Building Macroeconomic Models."
Publications:
- 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.