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Research Assistant
RWI Essen.
RWI Essen.
DEU
USA
CHL
WLD
Source: own work; CBCh, 2023; ECB, 2023; IMF, 2022; New York Fed, 2023; OECD, 2023.
Interests.
Climate change & environmental econ
Development & spatial econ
Energy & commodities
Foreign affairs, diplomacy, & geopolitics
Macroeconometrics & ML/AI
Macrofinance
Monetary & international econ
Prosocial behavior
Risks & conflicts
UN, NATO, EU, CHL, USA, DEU, & NRW
About me.
Education & Professional experience
Education
Professional experience
present
2022–present
Dortmund, DEU
TU Dortmund University
Master of Science, Economics
- Main focus: Applied Macro & Spatial Econ
Essen, DEU
2021–present
Research Assistant & Intern, Prosocial Behavior
RWI—Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Research Assistant & Intern, Prosocial Behavior
- Skills: environment · resources
Dortmund, DEU
2014–present
Founder & Proprietor
Benjamin Koch Web Design
Founder & Proprietor
Dortmund, DEU
2022–present
Master of Science, Economics
TU Dortmund University
Master of Science, Economics
- Main focus: Applied Macro & Spatial Econ
Essen, DEU
2021–present
Research Assistant & Intern, Prosocial Behavior
RWI—Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Research Assistant & Intern, Prosocial Behavior
- Skills: environment · resources
Dortmund, DEU
2014–present
Founder & Proprietor
Benjamin Koch Web Design
Founder & Proprietor
2022
Santiago de CHL
2022
Intern, German Embassy in Chile
German Federal Foreign Office
Intern, German Embassy in Chile
- Skills: politics · economics · military affairs
Santiago de CHL
2022
Intern, German Embassy in Chile
German Federal Foreign Office
Intern, German Embassy in Chile
- Skills: politics · economics · military affairs
2021
2017–2021
Münster, DEU
University of Münster (WWU)
Bachelor of Science, Economics
- Main focus: International Econ & Econometrics
- Bachelor thesis at the Institute of International Economics (Prof. Dr. Kempa): "Deviations from covered interest rate parity: Empirical findings after the global financial crisis"
Dortmund & Düsseldorf, DEU
2020–2021
Working Student & Intern, Transfer Pricing
KPMG Germany
Working Student & Intern, Transfer Pricing
- Skills: compliance · risk analysis · economic data analysis
Dortmund & Düsseldorf, DEU
2020–2021
Working Student & Intern, Transfer Pricing
KPMG Germany
Working Student & Intern, Transfer Pricing
- Skills: compliance · risk analysis · economic data analysis
Münster, DEU
2017–2021
Bachelor of Science, Economics
University of Münster (WWU)
Bachelor of Science, Economics
- Main focus: International Econ & Econometrics
- Bachelor thesis at the Institute of International Economics (Prof. Dr. Kempa): "Deviations from covered interest rate parity: Empirical findings after the global financial crisis"
2019
2019
Santiago de CHL
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Exchange semester, Ingeniería Comercial
Santiago de CHL
2019
Exchange semester, Ingeniería Comercial
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Exchange semester, Ingeniería Comercial
2018
2017
2016–2017
Münster, DEU
University of Münster (WWU)
German Law & Common Law Program
Münster, DEU
2016–2017
German Law & Common Law Program
University of Münster (WWU)
German Law & Common Law Program
2016
Skills
Languages
German (native)
English (C1)
Spanish (DELE C1)
Latin (Latinum Certificate)
IT
Web design (PHP, HTML, CSS, JS)
MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Data analysis (R, Stata, MATLAB/Dynare, Alteryx, SQL, Power BI)
Activities
- Guitar
- Lacrossse
- Soccer
- Traveling
In public.
Publications
Entries in reference works
- Andor, M. A., Koch, B. Y., & Matejko, L. (2023). Energy conservation. In B. M. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), Dictionary of ecological economics: Terms for the new millennium (p. 185). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.E.92
- Andor, M. A., Koch, B. Y., & Matejko, L. (2023). Natural disaster. In B. M. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), Dictionary of ecological economics: Terms for the new millennium (p. 367). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.N.9
Reports and gray literature
- Andor, M. A., Blasch, J., Cordes, O., Hoenow, N. C., Karki, K., Koch, B. Y., Micke, K., Niehues, D., & Tomberg, L. (2022). Report on cross-country citizen survey (Deliverable 6.3, Version 2.0). The NEWCOMERS consortium. https://www.newcomersh2020.eu/upload/files/NEWCOMERS_Deliverable_D6_3.pdf
- Andor, M. A., Blasch, J., Cordes, O., Hoenow, N. C., Karki, K., Koch, B. Y., Micke, K., Niehues, D., & Tomberg, L. (2022). Report on cross-country citizen survey (Deliverable 6.3, Version 2.0). The NEWCOMERS consortium. https://www.newcomersh2020.eu/upload/files/NEWCOMERS_Deliverable_D6_3.pdf
Presentations
2023
Writing in economics; Perceptions of energy transitions and policies
Workshop “Prosocial Behavior”, RWI Essen
2021
Chile: A changing country
Lecture series of the Expert Committee on European Affairs, Federal Association of German Economists (bdvb)
2018
Productivity
Working Group “Technology, productivity, and resource efficiency—empirical approaches”—Summer Academy Olang (ITA), German Academic Scholarship Foundation (SDV)
Honors.
2022
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Internship scholarship
2021
2020
KPMG Germany
highQ fellowship
2020
2016
German Academic Scholarship Foundation (SDV)
Study scholarship
2019
Federal Association of German Economists (bdvb)
Aktivit fellowship
Memberships.
Federal Association of German Economists
Member, National Expert Committee on European Affairs & Bochum Student Group
German Atlantic Association
(German branch of the Atlantic Treaty Association)
Member, Dortmund Regional Group
Member, Dortmund Regional Group
Alumni of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Member, Ruhr Region/Düsseldorf Regional Group
Last updated: March 2023
Date created: June 2019
Date created: June 2019
Civic involvement