9/2012 6/2017 Kings College London, PhD in Political Economy
London, UK Advisors: Mark Pennington and Adam Martin
5/2014 4/2016 Research Institute for Industrial Economics
Stockholm, Sweden Visiting PhD student
1/2015 2/2015 George Mason University
Fairfax, USA Mercatus Center PhD Dissertation Fellow in residence
9/2011 9/2012 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Masters degree
Madrid, Spain Economics of the Austrian School GPA: 8.8 out of 10 (10 best) Important Classes: Money & Banking (9,5/10), Price Theory & Microeconomics (9/10)
10/2007 4/2011 Erfurt University, Bachelor of Arts
Erfurt, Germany Majors: Economics and Social Sciences (6 semesters) Minor: Law (2 semesters) GPA: 1.3 (grading: 1.0 best; 4.0 worst) Important classes: International Political Economy (grade: 1.3), Financial Institutions (grade: 1.3)
Istanbul, Turkey Management, International Trade, Economics, Political Science Important classes: Comparative Political Economy of Europe (grade: 1.0), Economic Integration and the European Union (grade: 1.0)
International Non-Profit Activities Students For Liberty
8/2016 Today Chief Executive Officer
Visioning and Strategy, Development (Budget: $4.1mn), Leadership
4/2016 7/2016 Director of Professional Development
Hiring, on- and offboarding, Human Resources, Volunteer Management
6/2011 4/2016 Volunteer and Advisor of Students For Liberty
8/2013 10/2013 Part-time staff for European Students For Liberty
conference organizing, oversight
8/2012 4/2013 Chairman of European Students For Liberty
oversight, Conference organizing, Local Coordinator program, fundraising
1 7/2011 4/2013 Member of the European Students For Liberty Board Regional outreach, Local Coordinator program
Teaching
7/2015 Lecturer and Seminar Instructor in Economics at Northeastern University
7/2014 week-long seminar for economics students Shenyang, China
09/2013 04/2014 Teaching Assistant in 1st year undergraduate course Principles of Economics London, UK Conductor Emily Skarbek, Department of Political Economy, Kings College London.
2/2014 3/2013 Two lectures on GDP, Unemployment, and Inflation & Monetary Theory, London, UK Institutions and Policy for 1st year undergraduate course Principles of Economics
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Regime Uncertainty in the Great Recession: A Market Process Approach. The Independent Review. Vol. 20. Issue 4. 2016. Co-author Adam Martin.
Books
Probleme des etablierten Notenbankensystems Free Banking als Alternative? Liberal Verlag, Berlin, 3rd Edition, 2012 [2010].
Book Chapters
Die Bedeutung und Rolle von Unternehmertum in der Marktwirtschaft in Hoffmann, Christian (Ed.): Unternehmertum: Der Weg zum Wohlstand, LIT Verlag, Zrich, 2015.
Synopsis of James Buchanans What Should Economist Do? in Prollius, Michael von (Ed.): The Standards: Klassische Werke der konomie Zusammengefasst, BoD, Norderstedt, 2014.
Hayeks The Sensory Order, Crisis, and Resilience, in Legatum Institute (ed.): What Would Hayek Say Today?, Charles Street Symposium, London, 2013.
The Limitations of Regulation, in Bunyk, Mykola (ed.): Economic and Bureaucracy in an Open Society, Regional Institute of Public Administration, Lviv, 2012.
Reviews
Book review of Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State. By Andreas Berg. The Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming, 2016.
Book review of Deficits, Debt, and Democracy: Wrestling with Tragedy on the Fiscal Commons. By Richard E. Wagner. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 2014.
Non-Academic Publications
Political Induced Uncertainty and the Quest for Growth, in Huffington Post, 2016.
Small is Beautiful: The Democratic Advantage of Smaller States, in Huffington Post, 2015.
How Lehman Brothers Crash Five Years Ago Made Me Appreciate Markets, in Young Voices, Media Outlet for the Next Generation, 2013.
2 Undermining Free Trade Agreement due to PRISM is Dangerous, in Atlantic Community, The Open Think Tank on Foreign Policy, 2013.
Kein Versager: Monopole, ffentliche Gter und Externalitten: wo der Markt nicht funktioniert, muss der Staat intervenieren. Heisst es. Wenn es nur so einfach wre, in Schweizer Monat, Nr. 994, Zrich, 2012.
Gewinner und Verlierer des Papiergeldsystems: Wie die Produktion des Scheingeldes einige wenige auf Kosten aller begnstigt, in Smart Investor, Nr. 4, Berlin, 2012.
Awards
5/2013 Leuchtturm Prize of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF)
Berlin, Germany Prize for outstanding achievement as a scholarship holder
1/2012 The Decline of the Rule of Law & the Emergence of Regime Uncertainty Vaduz, Liechtenstein 2nd place in the Vernon Smith Prize essay contest (out of 85 submissions)
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants
4/2013 4/2016 Postgraduate scholarship from the FNF
Groningen, NL small grant for housing during the European Public Choice Society meetings
8/2014 8/2015 Mercatus Center PhD Dissertation Fellow at George Mason University Fairfax, USA http://grad.mercatus.org/graduate/dissertation-fellowships
8/2013 8/2014 Adam Smith Fellowship
Arlington, USA http://grad.mercatus.org/content/adam-smith-fellowships
4/2013 Young Scholars Program Recipient
Lahaina, USA travel scholarship to the Association for Private Enterprise Education conference
4/2012 4/2013 Postgraduate scholarship Thomas W. Smith Fellow 2012, 2013, and 2014 4/2013 4/2014 www.theihs.org/humane-studies-fellowships 4/2014 4/2015 Arlington, USA
10/2008 9/2012 Undergraduate scholarship from the FNF
6/2012 8/2012 Richard Seth Staley Educational Foundation Scholarship
Baltimore, USA travel scholarship to the Scholarship and a Free Society research seminar
9/2011 Hayek Fund Scholarship 2011 and 2015
4/2015 travel scholarships
2/2010 6/2010 Erasmus-scholarship for studying at the Boazii-University
Istanbul, Turkey
Presentations and Participation at Academic Conferences and Seminars
1/2016 Participant in the Policy Research Seminar on Financial Regulation
San Francisco, USA Institute for Humane Studies and Mercatus Center
3 8/2015 Paper presentation: Financial Regulation in Europe and the US after the Great Beijing, China Recession Cathay Institute for Public Administration
8/2015 Paper Presentation: The Rule of Law and Regime Uncertainty
Beijing, China Unirule Think-Tank
5/2015 Participant in the Tomorrow Laboratory of the St. Gallen Symposium
St. Gallen, Switzerland one week-long workshop on the role of the citizen in the 21st century
4/2015 Final PhD chapter presentation: Law Making during the Great Recession Groningen, NL European Public Choice Society meetings
3/2015 Paper presentation: Patterns of Crisis: Legislative Voting, Urgency, and Errors An Stockholm, Sweden Empirical Analysis of Law Making during the Great Recession Research Institute for Industrial Economics
2/2015 Paper presentation: Patterns of Crises: Legislative Voting, Urgency, and Errors An Fairfax, USA Empirical Analysis of Law Making during the Great Recession George Mason University paper workshop
1/2015 Paper presentation: Regime Uncertainty and the Great Recession
Stockholm, Sweden Ratio Institute
10/2014 Symposium on Current Hayekian Scholarship
Arlington, USA Mercatus Center at George Mason University
7/2014 Lecture on Stability without a Central-Bank: Theory of Free-Banking
Beijing, China Unirule Think Tank
7/2014 Lecture on Introduction to Free-Banking
Shanghai, China Shanghai Austrian Economics Summit
6/2014 Paper presentation: Voter Behavior in Times of Crisis
Fairfax, USA co-sponsored colloquium Mercatus Center and Liberty Fund
5/2014 Debate on Privacy an outdated concept?
St. Gallen, Switzerland St. Gallen Symposium Young Leaders Program
4/2014 Liberty, Self-Governance, and Polycentricism: Institutional Economics
Arlington, USA co-sponsored colloquium Mercatus Center and Liberty Fund
2/2014 Liberty and the Economics of Politics
Fairfax, USA co-sponsored colloquium Mercatus Center and Liberty Fund
12/2013 Paper presentation: Hayeks Sensory Order, Crisis, and Resilience
London, UK Charles Street Symposium at the Legatum Institute
3/2013 & 11/2013 F. A. Hayek Societys Arguing for Freedom
Fulda, Germany conducting a workshop on effective communication
10/2013 Liberty and the Market Process
Arlington, USA co-sponsored colloquium Mercatus Center and Liberty Fund
8/2013 Understanding Hayeks Contribution to Liberty
San Diego, USA Liberty Fund weeklong colloquium
8/2013 Liberty and Responsibility in Adam Smith
Holland, USA Liberty Fund weeklong colloquium 4 4/2013 Paper presentation: Regime Uncertainty and Firm Heterogeneity Lahaina, USA Association of Private Enterprise Education conference
11/2012 Presentation: Market Failure: Concepts and Misconceptions
