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Steffen Ahrens

Research Economist at the Presidential Department

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	Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Presidential Department
	Kiel's Christian-Albrechts-University, Chair of Economic Theory
	Coordinator Kiel-Illinois-Exchange

Current research topics

Monetary Macroeconomics

Labor Economics

Behavioral Economics

Short biography

Born Oct. 18th, 1979, in Kaltenkirchen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

08/2008 - present	Coordinator of the Kiel-Illinois student-exchange-program between Kiel's Christian-Albrechts-University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
05/2008 - present	Research and Teaching Assistant of Professor Dennis Snower at the Chair of Economic Theory of Kiel's Christian-Albrechts-University and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
05/2008 - present	Christian-Albrechts-University, International Ph.D. Programm "Quantitative Economics"
10/2004 - 03/2008	Kiel's Christian-Albrechts-University, Diploma in Economics, 6-month Thesis "Marginal Cost and Inflation Dynamics: An Econometric Study" (Erich-Schneider-Award 2008)
08/2006 - 05/2007	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Studies in Economics
10/2002 - 07/2004	Kiel's Christian-Albrechts-University, Grundstudium

Selected publications

Ahrens, S., Snower, D. (2012). Envy, Guilt, and the Phillips Curve. Kiel Working Paper, 1754, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 36 pp.
Ahrens, S., Sacht, S. (2011). Estimating a High-Frequency New-Keynesian Phillips Curve. Kiel Working Paper, 1686, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 22 pages.
Ahrens, S. (2009). Fiscal Responses to the Financial Crisis. Kiel Policy Brief, 11, The Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Ahrens, S., Wesselbaum, D. (2009). On the Introduction of Firing Costs. Kiel Working Papers, 1559, The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 30 pp.

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