Prof. Dr. Erkan G¨oren Curriculum Vitae March 2019

Personal Full Name: Erkan G¨oren Year of Birth: June, 1984 Family Status: married, four children Citizenship: German

Contact Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg Information Institute of Economics 26111 Oldenburg Tel: +49-441-798-4292 Web: www.uni-oldenburg.de/vwl/quantitative-methoden/ E-mail: [email protected]

Academic Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, since 07/2017 Positions Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods in Economics

University of Aarhus, since 09/2013 Department of Economics and Business Economics Academic Affiliation

Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 05/2015-06/2017 Postdoc at the Chair of Applied Macroeconomics

Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 10/2010-04/2015 Research Assistant at the Chair of Applied Macroeconomics

Research Economic Growth, Development Economics, Evolutionary Economics, Applied Interests Econometrics, Knowledge Diffusion, Firm-Level Analysis

Education Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 10/2010-04/2015 PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) Doctoral Thesis: Essays on the Impact of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity on Economic Growth and Development Supervisor: Prof. Dr. J¨urgenBitzer

University of Osnabruck¨ , 10/2005-03/2010 Master’s Degree in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) with distinction Diploma Thesis: Bivariate VAR Models for Measuring Energy Price Shocks on the Economy - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis for the Federal Republic of Germany

1 Publications • Consequences of Linguistic Distance for Economic Growth, June 2018, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 80, pp. 625-658. Impact Factor: 1.512

• The Persistent Effects of Novelty-Seeking Traits on Comparative Economic De- velopment, May 2017, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 126, pp. 112- 126. Impact Factor: 3.431

• The Biogeographic Origins of Novelty-Seeking Traits, November 2016, Evolution and Human Behavior, Vol. 37, pp. 456-469. Impact Factor: 3.623

• Measuring Capital Services by Energy Use: An Empirical Comparative Study (with J¨urgenBitzer), 2016, Applied Economics, Vol. 48, pp. 5152-5167. Impact Factor: 0.750

• How Ethnic Diversity Affects Economic Growth, July 2014, World Development, Vol. 59, pp. 275-297. Impact Factor: 3.940

Discussion • The Relationship Between Age and Subjective Well-Being: Estimating Papers Within and Between Effects Simultaneously, (joint with Philipp Bier- mann and J¨urgen Bitzer), University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, https://uol.de/fileadmin/user upload/wire/fachgebiete/vwl/V-421- 19.pdf, Working Paper No. V-421-18, 2019

• The Educational Burden of ADHD: Evidence From Student Achievement Test Scores, (joint with Bernhard C. Dannemann), University of Oldenburg, Depart- ment of Economics, http://www.vwl.uni-oldenburg.de/download/V-408-18.pdf, Working Paper No. V-408-18, 2018

• Foreign Aid and Subnational Development: A Grid Cell Analysis (joint with J¨urgen Bitzer), University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, http://www.vwl.uni-oldenburg.de/download/V-407-18.pdf, Working Paper No. V-407-18, 2018

• The Role of Novelty-Seeking Traits in Contemporary Knowledge Creation, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, http://www.vwl.uni- oldenburg.de/download/V-402-17.pdf, Working Paper No. V-402-17, 2017

• Absorption of Foreign Knowledge: Firms’ Benefits of Employing Im- migrants (joint with J¨urgen Bitzer and Sanne Kruse-Becher), Uni- versity of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, http://www.vwl.uni- oldenburg.de/download/Absorption of Foreign Knowledge.pdf, Working Paper No. V-386-15, 2017

2 Teaching Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg • Applied Econometrics Using GIS Techniques, MA Level

• Spatial Econometrics, MA Level

• Intensive Course in Economics: Foundations of Economic Policy, MA Level

• Econometrics, MA Level, Substitution for Prof. Dr. J¨urgenBitzer

• Econometric Exercises using Stata, MA Level

• Seminar Applied Economics, MA Level

• Statistical Methods for Forecasting using Stata, MA Level

Conference Verein fur¨ Socialpolitik Annual Congress Presentations University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 09/2018

Verein fur¨ Socialpolitik Annual Congress University of Vienna, Austria, 09/2017

European Economic Association Annual Congress University of Lisbon, Portugal, 08/2017

Royal Economic Society Annual Conference University of Manchester, England, 04/2015

European Trade Study Group Annual Conference LMU Munich and Ifo Institute, Germany, 09/2014

European Economic Association Annual Congress Toulouse School of Economics, France, 08/2014

Royal Economic Society Annual Conference University of Manchester, England, 04/2014

European Trade Study Group Annual Conference University of Birmingham, England, 09/2013

European Economic Association Annual Congress University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 08/2013

3 Seminar University of Bremen, Germany, Brown Bag Seminar, 05/2018 Presentations University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Brown Bag Seminar, 03/2018

University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Brown Bag Seminar, 09/2015

University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Brown Bag Seminar, 04/2015

Aarhus University, Denmark, Tuborg Research Centre Seminar, 09/2013

University of Hannover, Germany, NIW Workshop in Applied Economics, 05/2012

Research University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 09/2015 Visits Faculty of Economics and Business Invited, financed by the University of Groningen

Aarhus University, Denmark, 09/2013-10/2013 Department of Economics and Business Economics Invited, financed by the Tuborg Research Centre for Globalisation and Firms

Awards And Participant as Young Economists at the 5th Lindau Meeting of the Winners Honors of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Lindau, Germany, 08/2014

Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation Germany, 10/2008 - 03/2010

Skills Econometric Skills Panel-Data Analysis, Spatial Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Production Function Analysis

Computational Skills Stata, ArcGIS, Python, R, Matlab, LATEX

4 References Prof. Dr. Jurgen¨ Bitzer Prof. Dr. Hans-Michael Trautwein Institute of Economics Institute of Economics Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg Tel: +49-441-798-4217 Tel: +49-441-798-4110 [email protected] [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Philipp Joachim Hans Schr¨oder Department of Economics and Business Aarhus University Tel: +45 89486392 [email protected]

Last Updated: Oldenburg, March 4th, 2018

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