CV

August 2007: Senior lecturer and researcher Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law, Switzerland.

March 2002: Senior researcher and teaching associate at ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research
( today: Swiss Economic Institute), Switzerland.

December 2001: PhD Economics (Humboldt University, Germany)

March 1998: Diploma in Economics (Humboldt University, Germany)

July 1996: Bsc Econ (Hull University, UK)

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Selected conference talks and seminars

• Annual meeting of the Canadian Economic Society: Puzzle Solver, Toronto, May 29-31 2009.


• Annual meeting of the European Economic Association: Rationally "irrational": Theory and empirical evidence, Milan, August 29 2008.


• Quantitative methods of finance conference: A median approach to the determination of spot foreign exchange rates, Sydney December 12-19 2007.


• Annual conference of the German statistical society (Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft): A note on the Carlson-Parkin method for quantifying qualitative data, Kiel September 27-30 2007: .


• Annual conference of the Royal Economic Society: A Simple Test for Temporal Disaggregation, Warwick,
  10 – 13 April 2007.


• Annual conference of the Scottish Economic Society:What billions can’t buy, Perth, 2 – 4 April 2007.


• Pfingsttagung der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft: Testing temporal disaggregation, Bielefeld, 26 – 30 March 2007.


• 4th Annual INFINITY conference on International Finance: A median approach to the determination of spot foreign exchange rates, Dublin, 12 – 13 June 2006.


• 10th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance: A median approach
  to the determination of spot foreign exchange rates, Rethymno, 25 – 27 May 2006.


• Statistische Woche 2005: Further Evidence on Monopolistic Competition, the Business Cycle and
  Markup Pricing in Switzerland, Braunschweig, September 26 - 29, 2005.


• Econometric Society European Meeting: A Note on the Interpretation of Cointegration Coeffcients,
  Madrid, August 20 - 24, 2004.


• Econometric Society European Meeting: Unit Root tests for Time Series with a structural Break when
  the Break Point is known, Santiago de Compostela, August, 1999.

Services to the economic community and related activities

Refereeing

• Southern Economic Journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics,
  International Journal of Forecasting, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik,
  Empirical Economics, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management,
  Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis, Applied Economics Quarterly, Applied Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics Statistics, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.

Consultations

• Expert to the hearing upper and lower chambers of the German parliament regarding the constitional reform, 4 May, 2009.

• Expert to the hearing at the parliament of North Rhein-Westfalia, 14 February, 2008.

• Expert to the joint commission of the upper and lower chambers of the German parliament on the reform
  of the fiscal relationship between the federal states and the federal government. 22 June, 2007, Berlin.

• External expert to the project Internationalisation of ICT activities in Europe conducted by MERIT
  (Maastricht), EIIW (Wuppertal), and ARC-sys (Wien) on behalf of the European Commission, DG
  JRC-IPTS.