Falk Bräuning is a PhD candidate in finance and econometrics at the VU University Amsterdam and will start working in September as a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in the United States.
Falk expects to defend his dissertation on ‘Interbank Markets, Financial Crises and Monetary Policy’, in the second half of 2015, under the supervision of TI fellows professor Andre Lucas and Siem Jan Koopman (both VU). Falk is an alumnus of the TI MPhil program (2011, cum laude). His research interests include interbank markets, monetary policy and the econometrics of financial networks. He published with Siem Jan Koopman in the International Journal of Forecasting (2014).
Matthias Weber will start working as an assistant professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania and a researcher at the Bank of Lithuania.
Matthias is a PhD candidate in economics at CREED at the University of Amsterdam and expects to complete his dissertation on ‘Economic Behavior and Public Policy: Essays from a Behavioral Perspective’, in June 2015, under the supervision of TI fellow Arthur Schram (UvA). Matthias is an alumnus of the TI MPhil program (2011). His research interests include public economics, political economics & political science, macroeconomics, and regulatory finance, primarily from a behavioral and experimental perspective.