Prof. Dr. Christian Bayer

Biography

Academic Career 2000 Diploma 2001 - 2004 Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Dortmund 2004 Dr. rer. pol., Graduate School, University of Dortmund 2004 - 2005 Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy 2004 - 2008 Assistant Professor, University of Dortmund 2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cowles Foundation, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 2007 - 2009 Franco Modigliani Research Fellow at IGIER, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy 2014 - 2015 Visiting Fellow (Fernand Braudel Fellow), European University Institute, Florence, Italy Since 2008 Professor (W3) of Economics, University of Bonn Since 2015 Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, England, UK Christian Bayer is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on investments of firms and household savings in environments with heterogeneous agents, on worker, job-, and firm dynamics, as well as the macroeconomic implications of financial frictions. His research combines in-depth empirical analysis of micro data for macroeconomic questions and theoretical, quantitative work that uses state-of-the-art numerical techniques to solve and simulate general equilibrium models of heterogeneous agents.DFG Research Training Group GRK 1707 “Heterogeneity, Risk, and Dynamics in Economic Systems”  Co–Investigator, 2011 - 2015  ERC Starting Grant “HUMP”, Volume: 878,000 euros  2012 - 2016  EU Horizon 2020 project: “ADEMU”  Co–Investigator, 2015 - 2018  ERC Consolidator Grant “A Unified Framework of Business Cycles and Household Portfolios: Income Risks, Asset Liquidity, and Inequality (''LiquidHouseCycle'')”  Since 2016

Research Interest

Advanced methods of probability theory, stochastics and econometrics have become indispensable tools for the analysis of financial markets and contemporary macroeconomic models. Research Area H tackles new challenges in the fields of insurance and post-crisis financial markets, addresses heterogeneity and resulting aggregation problems in macroeconomic and econometric models. Theoretical development goes hand in hand with practical implementations and empirical data analysis. To find out more, read a detailed description of the Research Area's achievementsand goals.