Thomas Knetsch

Date of birth: 24 september 1972. Place of birth: Neckarsulm. Nationality: German. Confession: Roman-Catholic. Marital status: single.

Address:

Berliner Graduiertenkolleg "Angewandte Mikroökonomik"
Freie Universität Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 20
D-14195 Berlin
Tel.: +49-(0)30-838-6555
Fax: +49-(0)30-838-4142
Email: knetsch@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de

Education:

10/98

Fellow of the Ph.D.-program "Applied Microeconomics" of the Humboldt-University and the Free University Berlin; grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
advisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wolters, FU Berlin.

09/96 - 07/97

Studies in Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), granted by the ERASMUS/SOCRATES-program.

10/93 - 09/98

Undergraduate Studies in Economics at the University of Mannheim
degree: Diplom-Volkswirt
thesis: Theorie und Ökonometrie von makroökonomischen Modellen temporärer Gleichgewichte bei Mengenrationierung (Theory and Econometrics of the Macroeconomic Disequilibrium Approach)
advisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Franz.

07/92 - 06/93

National service in the German Air Force in Germersheim und Lauda.

09/83 - 06/92

Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium (grammar school), Neckarsulm.

09/79 - 07/83

Grundschule Kochendorf (primary school), Bad Friedrichshall.

Activities:

10/97 - 07/98

Student teacher in Macroeconomics, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlieper.

10/97 - 09/98

Student member of the academic senate of the University of Mannheim.

03/96 - 07/96

Speaker of the Students’ Union (AStA) of the University of Mannheim.

Languages:

• German: mother tongue
• English: written: very good, spoken: good
• French: written: good, spoken: good
• Spanish: basics

Research interests:

• Macroeconomic theory, especially new-Keynesian economics
• Monetary economics
• Sectoral structure of labor markets versus centralized wage bargaining
• Time series analysis

Talks:

• Nachwuchs-Workshop "Empirische Anwendungen struktureller Modelle für kausale Analysen und Prognosen" der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft u.a., 09. - 12. Mai 1999, Berlin.