Prof. Dr. Lena Dräger

since 10/2024
Head of research group „Monetary Macroeconomics”, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

since 04/2018
Full professor (W3) in Economics, especially Money and International Finance, Leibniz University Hanover 

10/2016 - 03/2018
Visiting professor (W3) in Economics, especially International Macroeconomics, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz

10/2011 - 03/2018
Assistant professor in Economics, especially Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Science, University of Hamburg

10/2008 - 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 

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 Zurich

09/2007 - 09/2008
M.Sc. in Economics and Econometrics at the University of Kent, UK

03/2003 - 06/2006
Diplom-Volkswirtin (BA. hon. in Economics), Universität Hamburg 

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 Bundesbank

2014-2017 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-Foundation

2015-2016 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