Office hour

• To make an appointment, please contact Volker Nitsch. Volker Nitsch

Current Position

• Professor of Economics (2009-), Chair of International Economics, Department of Law and Economics, Darmstadt University of Technology

Previous Positions

• Head of Division (2007-2009), KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Junior Professor of Economics (2003-2009), Department of Economics, Free University Berlin (on leave, 2007-2009)
• Senior Economist (1995-2003), Bankgesellschaft Berlin

Education

• Dr. rer. pol. (equiv. Ph.D. in Economics, 2000), Humboldt University Berlin
• Diplom-Volkswirt (equiv. Master in Economics, 1995), Free University Berlin

Research Affiliations and Memberships

• Fellow (2012-), West Africa Institute
• Advisor (2011-), Urbancontext Institute of Regional and Urban Research
• Deputy Dean (2010-), Graduate School of Economics, Finance and Management
• Research Professor (2009-), KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Research Fellow (2009-), CESifo Munich
• Member of the Research Committee on Regional Theory and Policy (2008-), German Economic Association
• Research Affiliate (2005-2008), CESifo Munich

Visiting Experience

• Bank of Canada, International Department
• Bank of Namibia, Research Department
• Deutsche Bundesbank, Forschungszentrum
• Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Institute for Monetary Research
• International Monetary Fund, European Department (scheduled)
• Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Economics Department
• Trinity College Dublin, Institute for International Integration Studies
• Universität München, Center for Economic Studies

Major Grants

• Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, Changing Preferences as Determinants of Location Decisions of Households, 2010-2011 (with Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nicolai Wendland)
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), An Analysis of the Sustainability of the Spatial Urban Structure in Pre-World War II Berlin, 2010-2012 (with Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nicolai Wendland)
• European Commission, The Euro and Prices: Changeover-Related Inflation and Price Convergence in the Euro Area, 2007-2008 (with Ulrich Fritsche, Michael Graff, Michael Lamla, Sarah Lein, and Jan-Egbert Sturm)
• Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, On the Persistence of Border Barriers: Evidence from Intra-German Trade, 2006-2007 (with Nikolaus Wolf)
• Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, An Empirical Analysis of the Optimum Size and the Structure of Monetary Policy Decision-Making Bodies, 2005-2007 (with Helge Berger)
• Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, Border Barriers in International Trade, 2004-2006

Conference Organization

• Economic Geography and International Trade, 2013, Berlin (with Gabriel Felbermayr and Jens Südekum)
• Economic Geography and International Trade, 2012, Duisburg (with Gabriel Felbermayr and Jens Südekum)
• Economic Geography and International Trade, 2011, München (with Gabriel Felbermayr and Jens Südekum)
• Measuring Economic Integration, 2011, München (with Nikolaus Wolf)
  
  • Selected papers will be published in a special issue of CESifo Economic Studies
  • The editorial introduction is available as a pdf file
• Economic Geography and International Trade, 2010, Darmstadt (with Gabriel Felbermayr and Jens Südekum)