As of August 2013, three new junior professors join the SAFE faculty: Sascha Baghestanian, Junior Professor for Microeconomics and Experimental Economics in the SAFE research area “Corporate Governance”, Martin R. Goetz, Junior Professor for Regulation and Stability of Financial Institutions in the respective SAFE research area, and Nathanael Vellekoop, Junior Professor for Household Finance, also in the respective SAFE research area.
Baghestanian recently earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Indiana University, Bloomington, US. Before following his thesis advisor to Indiana, he started his thesis at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna where he obtained his postgraduate diploma in 2008. Prior to this, he earned a bachelor’s degree at the Vienna University of Economics. His research interests lie in microeconomics, experimental economics, asset pricing, computational methods, and applied microeconometrics.
Goetz worked as a Financial Economist in the Risk and Policy Analysis Unit at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from August 2010 until May 2013. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in May 2010. Before, he received an M.Sc. in Financial and Industrial Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a diploma in Business Administration at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research interests lie in financial economics, banking and applied microeconomics.
Vellekoop recently earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Tilburg University, Netherlands. Before coming to Tilburg in 2007, he had been studying at Erasmus University Rotterdam where he received an M.Sc. in Economic Policy in 2005 and an LL.M in Law and Economics in the same year. Besides Household Finance, Vellekoop has conducted research in Labor Economics.
Baghestanian, Goetz, and Vellekoop fill three of six new junior professorships Goethe University is establishing in the Center of Excellence SAFE.
