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Steffen Ahrens

Research Economist at the Presidential Department

Monetary Policy under Market Imperfections

Reforming the Welfare Society

Phone	+49 431 8814 534
Phone	+49 431 880 5631
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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., Wesselbaum, D. (2009). On the Introduction of Firing Costs. Kiel Working Papers, 1559, The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 30 pp.