Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW)
The German team is based at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW). The IAW is an independent and non-university research institute. Its mission is the application of economic research building upon a network of trustees as well as internal and external scientific advisors. The Institute also undertakes basic scientific research and focuses on problems and methods of empirical economic research in the areas of ‘International Integration and Regional Development’, ‘Labor Markets and Social Security’ as well as ‘Firm Dynamics and Structural Change’. Its research activities are based on firm-level data related to questions concerning growth, employment and competitiveness in the knowledge-based economy and it has ample experience with various firm- and establishment-level datasets containing information on direct investment, exports, patents etc. The Institute has been conducting research projects for the European Union, German national and state governments as well as the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Volkswagen Foundation in the field of multinational firms and cross-border banking and has been hosting international workshops on multinational firms, the structure and dynamics of enterprise activity, and various econometric issues.
Team leader
Katja Neugebauer has been a research associate at the IAW since January 2010. Before, she worked as a research assistant at the department of International Finance and Macroeconomics at the chair of Professor Buch and as an associated research fellow at the IAW. She studied Economics with a focus on quantitative methods and banking at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, where she received her Diploma in 2004, and at the University of Edinburgh. In 2010, she received her Ph.D. in economics. Her current research focus is on financing restrictions for firms during the recent crisis, the link between bank risk and the real economy, and cross-border banking.
Team
Andreas Koch has been a research fellow at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) in Tübingen, Germany, since 2003. He has also been an assistant lecturer at the Institute of Geography at the University of Tübingen since 2009 and he has been a freelance collaborator at the Statistical Office of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2008 and 2009. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from the University of Tübingen. His research is focused on the interface between labor market and industrial dynamics with an emphasis on new firms and new technologies. Individual and firm-level micro-data from different sources are the fundament of most of his research and he has been engaged in various projects (including MICRO-DYN) dealing with issues of data matching and comparability.
Katja Neugebauer has been a research associate at the IAW since January 2010. Before, she worked as a research assistant at the department of International Finance and Macroeconomics at the chair of Professor Buch and as an associated research fellow at the IAW. She studied Economics with a focus on quantitative methods and banking at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, where she received her Diploma in 2004, and at the University of Edinburgh. In 2010, she received her Ph.D. in economics. Her current research focus is on financing restrictions for firms during the recent crisis, the link between bank risk and the real economy, and cross-border banking.