Dr. Christoph Albert

Research assistant under supervision of Professor Andrea Caggese. For a Macrofinance project I analyzed Compustat firm level panel data to document capital misallocation across firms and investigate its relationship with firm productivity. (the paper can be found on https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8qmKFn3LHCYTW5pNkplcHVidDg/view ). In a second project I compiled and analyzed Swedish matched employer-employee data using Stata. Further tasks involved literature reviews, data search and Matlab coding.

I mainly worked on two projects for which I conducted thorough econometric analyses using novel datasets. In the first one I examined the actual use of the preferential duties provided for in EU FTAs by EU exporters. In the other project I assessed the impact of reducing operators' uncertainty in service trade by estimating the effects of binding current levels of trade in service restrictions. The analysis improves upon previous work as it employs the OECD's new service trade restrictiveness index.

Trainee in the Public Debt Management team of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs: Data analysis using Excel and Stata and research on recent developments in sovereign debt markets (e.g. country ratings, investor base, yields etc.).

Research assistant in the Department of Human Capital and Innovation. I supported my supervisor Ludger Wößmann in various research projects in the fields economic development and educational economics. Among others, tasks included collecting, preparing and analyzing historic datasets using Stata and Excel. An article based on the data I compiled was published in the AER (see on https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.103.3.539 )

Doktorarbeit: “The Labor Market Impact of Undocumented Immigrants: Job Creation vs. Job Competition” “Immigrants' Residential Choices and their Consequences” (with Joan Monras) “Financial Frictions, Cyclical Fluctuations and the Innovative Nature of New Firms” (with Andrea Caggese)

Thesis title: "International Labor Migration: A Search Theory Approach", Grade 9/10

Abschlussarbeit: "Optimale Währungsräume und die Endogenität der Beitrittskriterien", Note 1.0