Prof. Dr. Lena Dräger
30167 Hannover
from 21.10.2024: Tue. 14:00 - 15:00 via telephone
Focus in Research and Teaching
- Monetary Macroeconomics
- International Financial Markets
- Monetary Policy and Capital Flows in Currency Unions
- Household Finance
- DSGE-Models with Heterogeneous Expectations and/or Financial Frictions
CV
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Professional Carrer
Since 10/2024
Head of research group „Monetary Macroeconomics”, Kiel Institute for the World Economysince 04/2018
Full professor (W3) in Economics, especially Money and International Finance, Leibniz University Hanover10/2016 - 03/2018
Visiting professor (W3) in Economics, especially International Macroeconomics, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz10/2011 - 03/2018
Assistant professor in Economics, especially Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Science, University of Hamburg10/2008 - 09/2011
Research assistant in the DFG-Project "Inflation Expectation Formation and Information Transmission on Households' Expectations: Stickiness, Agenda- Setting and Uncertainty" with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fritsche, University of Hamburg -
Education
05/2009 - 10/2011
Dr.Sc. at the ETH Zurich and the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Title of the PhD dissertation: "Deviations from Rationality - Essays on Inflation Perceptions and Expectations"Winter 2009/2010
Doctoral Studies at the ETH Zurich and the University Zurich09/2007 - 09/2008
M.Sc. in Economics and Econometrics at the University of Kent, UK03/2003 - 06/2006
Diplom-Volkswirtin (BA. hon. in Economics), Universität Hamburg -
Current Research Projects
2022-2025 Project Ination Expectations and Economic Preferences, joint with Prof. Dr.
Marina Schröder (LUH), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)2022-2024 Project Are Households Aware of the Monetary Policy Strategy of the ECB?
Implications for Central Bank Communication and the Anchoring of Macro-
economic Expectations, funded by the Bundesbank2014-2017 Project Financial Flows and Macroeconomic Imbalances in the European
Monetary Union joint with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fritsche (University of Hamburg) and
Christian Proaño (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg), funded by the Hans-
Böckler-Foundation2015-2016 Project Inflationswahrnehmungen und -erwartungen von Haushalten und ihre
Beziehung zu Spar- und Konsumentscheidungen: Survey-Evidenz für Deutschland
joint with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fritsche (University of Hamburg), funded by the regional branch of
Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein of the Bundesbank
Teaching
- Money, Currency and Financial Markets (B.Sc.)
- Monetary Policy (B.Sc.)
- International Financial Markets (B.Sc.)
- Seminar Money and International Finance (B.Sc.)
- Seminar New Challenges in Monetary Policy and Finance (B.SC.)
- Financial Systems and Regulation (M.Sc.)
- Financial Crises (M.Sc.)
- Seminar Empirical Monetary Macroeconomics (M.Sc.)
- Advanced Monetary Macroeconomics (PhD)