I am happy to contribute to a research project funded by the European Commission (European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Grant Agreement No 101004703).
A systematic evaluation of current labour market policies, based training policies that allows identifying areas of success and directions to be mitigated.
This will lead to proposing a coherent and cohesive policy roadmap that includes a battery of action in different policy areas to achieve Pathways to Inclusive Labour Markets.
The FIT IN Initiative granted our research proposal on
interoperability of digital payment systems in low- and middle-income countries with $10k.
This project aims to investigate the role of mobile money agents and the operators they serve on financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We apply geo-coded survey data which we enrich with geographic infrastructure controls.
The Bavarian Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) is funding my research project on digital infrastructure with 56k EUR.
This project aims to fill this gap in the literature by studying the effects of digital infrastructure expansion for mobile Internet in Germany. Overarching questions are:
Is a comprehensive geographic coverage with broadband mobile Internet (4G/5G) reasonable? Can regions profit from targeted expansion of mobile Internet infrastructure?
How does mobile Internet change the structure of the labor market and the professional life of employees?
In the collaboration with the consortium (Ernst & Young, WIK Consult), the ifo Institute will focus on the statistical analysis of the data.
Empirical evidence suggests that broadband internet access has positive effects on local growth and employment and accelerates structural change.
The German federal government therefore aims to ensure the comprehensive availability of Next Generation broadband technologies for all German households.
Yet, there are areas in which market-driven expansion by private suppliers appears to be not profitable. For such areas,
the Next Generation Access Programme is meant to incentivize the private expansion of broadband infrastructure through complementary state aid.
Following the guidelines of the European Commission, the effectiveness of these measures will be evaluated in a rigorous empirical policy evaluation design.
Deutsche Telekom has promoted for more than ten years doctoral students at the ifo Institute who study the telecommunications sector and the impacts of digitization in general. Particular attention has been given to regulatory issues in a technological quickly changing environment, research on and with “big data” and the effects of digitization. Research is primarily evidence-based/empirical.