Fiscal Policy and Energy Price Shocks
Energy Policy (2026)
CV
Education
- PhD candidate in Economics at PIK Potsdam (formerly MCC Berlin) and Universität Potsdam, ongoing
- Easter School on Macroeconomic Modelling and Policy, University of Surrey, 2023 (1 week)
- Summer School on Economic Foundations of Energy and Climate Policies, European University Institute, 2022 (1 week)
- M.Sc. in Economics, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2020
- M.Sc in Economics and Econometrics, University of Nottingham, 2020
- B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2018
- B.A. in International Relations, Technische Universität Dresden, 2016
- Abitur and Baccalauréat (French-German High School Diploma), Gutenbergschule Wiesbaden, 2012
Work experience
- 2021-present: PIK Potsdam, formerly MCC Berlin (Researcher)
- Duties included: Conceptualization and implementation of a vulnerability index in the context of coal phase outs, policy evaluation in the context of the 2022 European energy crisis using a DSGE model
- 2018: R+V Versicherung AG (Intern, 2 months)
- Duties included: Working with large scale internal model of insurance company
- 2016: Federal Ministry of Finance (Intern, 2 months)
- Duties included: Writing country reports and analyses
- 2012-2013: Presse Universitaire d’Abomey Calavi, Benin (Volunteer Journalist, 10 months)
- Duties included: Daily editorial and journalistic work
Awards
- 2021-2024: Ph.D. scholarship by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt)
- 2020: World Economy Prize for the best M.Sc. dissertation at the University of Nottingham’s school of economics
- 2020: School Prize for Performance in M.Sc. at the University of Nottingham’s school of economics
- 2013-2020: Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Publications
Rechtfertigt Klimapolitik eine Erhöhung der Verschuldung? Plädoyer für eine grün-goldene Regel
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik (2025)
Power to which people? Energiegerechtigkeit und ownership-Strukturen in Energiegenossenschaften
Umweltgerechtigkeit und sozialökologische Transformation (2023)
Interaction effects between dynamic hybrid products and traditional deferred annuities in the German life insurance market
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (2021)
Talks
Trading Budget Deficits for Public Investment: Optimal Deficit Rules for Present-Biased Governments
Research seminar presentation at Public Economics Research Seminar, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Minimum Corporate Taxation in Markov Perfect Equilibrium
Conference presentation at Ruhr-Graduate-School of Economics Doctoral Conference, Bochum, Germany
Trading Deficits for investment: Optimal Deficit Rules for Present-Biased Governments
Research seminar presentation at Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Department of Economics, Salzburg, Austria
Trading Deficits for Investment: Optimal Deficit Rules for Present-Biased Governments
Conference presentation at European Economic Association 40th Congress, Bordeaux, France
Overcoming the climate policy dilemma: The role of debt and redistribution under intergenerational borrowing constraints
Conference presentation at 30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Bergen, Norway
Trading Deficits for investment: Optimal Deficit Rules for Present-Biased Governments
Conference presentation at ZEW Public Finance Conference, Mannheim, Germany
Trading Deficits for investment: Optimal Deficit Rules for Present-Biased Governments
Research seminar presentation at Internal research seminar at CREST/ENSAE, Paris, France
Trading Deficits for investment: Optimal Deficit Rules for Present-Biased Governments
Research seminar presentation at Internal research seminar of the Governance and Regulation Chair at the University Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
Income inequality, bequest constraints, and long-term public investment
Research seminar presentation at Research seminar of the Laboratoire d’Économie Dionysien at the University Paris 8, Paris, France
Optimal Debt Ceilings for Present Biased Governments
Research seminar presentation at Lunchtime seminar of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Overcoming the Climate Policy Dilemma: The Role of Debt and Redistribution under Intergenerational Borrowing Constraints
Conference presentation at Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France
Teaching
Climate Economics and Policy (Teaching Assistant)
Exercise at University of Potsdam, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany
Economics of Climate Change (Teaching Assistant)
Exercise at University of Potsdam, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany
Macroeconomics (Teaching Assistant)
Graduate and Undergraduate course at Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Department of Economics, Jena, Germany