Hannes Öhler

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Address University of Göttingen, Department of Economics, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073 Göttingen, Germany E-Mail [email protected] Date/Place of Birth 15/10/1982 in Brixen, Italy Nationality Italian

Education

Since 10/2009 PhD studies in Economics, University of Göttingen (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher)

08/2007 – 05/2008 Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany

09/2006 – 05/2007 Visiting Student (Erasmus Program) University of Limerick, Ireland

09/2003 – 06/2004 Visiting Student University of Verona, Italy

10/2001 – 08/2006 Diploma Studies in Economics University of Innsbruck, Austria

Professional Experience

Since 10/2009 Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher, Chair of Development Economics and International Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany

04/2009 – 07/2009 Internship at Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin, Germany

07/2008 – 12/2008 Internship at GTZ Nigeria, Employment oriented Private Sector Development Programme, Abuja

01/2009 – 03/2009; Associate at the Institute for Economic Research 05/2007 – 07/2007 (IER), Bozen, Italy Hannes Öhler

Summer 2001-2006 Associate at the Provincial Statistics Institute (ASTAT), Bozen, Italy

Working Papers

07/2009 Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels: Need, Merit and Self-Interest as Motives of German Donors (with Peter Nunnenkamp)

02/2009 Acting Autonomously or Mimicking the State and Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs (with Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Johannes Weisser)

Research Interests

International Organizations, especially IMF

Development Economics, especially Aid

Applied Econometrics

Advanced Courses

Kiel Institute for World Economics, Advanced Studies Program: Macroeconomics in Open Economies , Paul Bergin (UC Davis); International Trade , Donald Davis (Columbia); Monetary and Fiscal Policy , Charles Wyplosz (GIIS); Empirical Methods in Macroeconomics , Jonas Dover, Carlo Rosa; Political Economics , James Robinson (Harvard); Labor Economics , Richard Freeman (Harvard); Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice , Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern); Innovation and Growth , Fabrizio Zilibotti (Zurich); International Banking and Finance , Hans Degryse (Leuven); Exchange Rate Economics , Nelson Mark (Notre Dame); Economic Development , Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)

University of Innsbruck: Time Series Analysis and Macroeconometrics , Janette Walde and Herbert Stocker (Innsbruck); Sample Selection and Treatment Models , Peter Egger (Munich) and Rafael Lalive (Zurich); Measurement Errors and Panel Econometrics , Thomas J. Wansbeek (Groningen) and Jan F. Kiviet (Amsterdam); Panel Econometrics , Michael Pfaffermayr (Innsbruck)

Hannes Öhler

Scholarships

08/2007 – 05/2008 Kiel Institute for the World Economy Scholarship

09/2006 - 04/2007 Erasmus Scholarship

Computer Skills MS Office, Stata, SPSS, Matlab, EViews, LaTeX, Visual Basic, SQL

Languages English, German, Italian

Personal Interests Philosophy, Literature, Cinema, Soccer