Prizes
Keynes Society Young Scholar Award 2024 – Marla Schiefeling
Marla Schiefeling, graduate of the Master in International Economics at HWR Berlin and the double degree Master’s program Economic Policies in the Age of Globalisation (EPOG2) in cooperation with Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, received the 2024 Young Scholar Award of the Keynes Society.
She was honored for her Master’s thesis, supervised by Professor Eckhard Hein:
“Bilateral Swap Lines to the Periphery: Growth and Dependence in the Light of Balance-of-Payments Constraints and Financial Subordination.”
Keynes Society Young Scholar Award 2023 – IPE Researcher Ryan Woodgate
Ryan Woodgate, researcher at the Institute for International Political Economy (IPE), received the 2023 Young Scholar Award of the Keynes Society.
He was awarded for his doctoral dissertation titled:
“The Macroeconomics of Offshoring and Intergovernmental Policy Competition: A Post-Keynesian Analysis of Key Aspects of Neoliberal Globalisation,”
completed at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. The dissertation was supervised by IPE Co-Director Eckhard Hein as part of the joint doctoral cooperation between HWR Berlin and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and was defended in September 2022.
Tiburtius Prize 2022 – Benjamin Jungmann
Benjamin Jungmann received a Tiburtius Prize from the Berlin universities in 2022.
He was awarded first prize for Master’s theses for his thesis in the Master in International Economics and the double degree EPOG2, supervised by Professor Eckhard Hein:
“Growth Drivers in Emerging Capitalist Economies before and after the Global Financial Crisis.”
A revised and shortened version was published as IPE Working Paper No. 172/2021, and after further revision, the article was published in the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy.
Keynes Society Young Scholar Award 2022 – Sara Feiner Solis
Sara Feiner Solis, graduate of the Master in International Economics at HWR Berlin, received the 2022 Young Scholar Award of the Keynes Society.
She was honored for her Master’s thesis, supervised by Professor Eckhard Hein:
“The Effectiveness and Risks of Loose Monetary Policy in Financialised Economies.”
A shortened version was published as IPE Working Paper, No. 159/2021, and after revision, the article appeared in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.
Tiburtius Prize 2020 – Clementine Davies
Clementine Davies received a Tiburtius Prize from the Berlin universities in 2020.
She was awarded first prize for Master’s theses for her thesis in the Master in International Economics, supervised by Professor Jennifer Pédussel Wu:
“Financialisation and Rental Housing: A Case Study of Berlin.”
A revised and shortened version was published as IPE Working Paper, No. 153/2021
Tiburtius Prize 2020 – Sophie-Dorothee Rotermund
Sophie-Dorothee Rotermund received a Tiburtius Prize from the Berlin universities in 2020.
She was awarded third prize for Master’s theses for her thesis in the Master in International Economics and the Erasmus Mundus Master EPOG, supervised by Professor Martina Metzger:
“Assessing Systematic Risk: An Analysis of the German Banking Sector.”
A revised and shortened version was published as IPE Working Paper, No. 129/2019.
Tiburtius Prize 2017 – Franz Prante
Franz Prante received a Tiburtius Prize from the Berlin universities in 2017.
He was awarded second prize for Master’s theses for his thesis in the Master in International Economics, supervised by Professor Eckhard Hein:
“Consumption Theory and Macroeconomic Effects of Personal and Functional Income Inequality.”
A revised and shortened version was published as IPE Working Paper, No. 83/2017, and after further revisions, the article was published in Panoeconomicus.
Keynes Society Young Scholar Award 2015 – Christoph Paetz
Christoph Paetz, graduate of the Master in International Economics at HWR Berlin, received the 2015 Young Scholar Award of the Keynes Society.
He was honored for his Master’s thesis, supervised by Professors Achim Truger and Eckhard Hein:
“The Swiss Debt Brake after One Decade: A Critical Appraisal.”