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Research Profile

Postdoctoral Researcher in Macroeconomics and Energy Economics
(DSGE, Forecasting, Climate Policy Evaluation)

Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Halle, Germany
Email: schult.christoph@googlemail.com
Website: https://schultkr.github.io/

Current Position

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), 2021–present

Academic Positions

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), 2021–present
• PhD Candidate, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), 2016–2021

Research Interests

• Macroeconomics (DSGE models, expectation formation, financial frictions)
• Energy and environmental economics (energy transition, coal phase-out, climate policy evaluation)
• Forecasting, forecast evaluation, and uncertainty
• Regional and applied macroeconomics

Methods & Skills

• Methods: DSGE modelling; structural and applied macroeconometrics; forecast evaluation; synthetic control methods; policy evaluation
• Econometric tools: panel data, IV, synthetic control, machine-learning-based causal inference
• Programming: MATLAB, R, Python (advanced); Stata, SQL, VBA (basic)

Education

• Dr. rer. pol. (PhD) in Economics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 2021
  Dissertation: Expectation Formation, Energy Transitions, and Macroeconomic Dynamics
• M.Sc. in Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2015
• B.Sc. in Economics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 2013

Third-Party Funded Research Projects

• Macroeconomic modelling of energy investments in Vietnam (GIZ), 2024–present
• Evaluation of the Investment Act for Coal Regions (InvKG) and the STARK programme (BMWE), 2022–present
• Energy transitions and socio-economic impacts (EU Horizon 2020), 2020–2023
• Climate-resilient economic development in Vietnam (GIZ), 2019–2022
• Coal phase-out and climate policy strategies (UBA), 2016–2019

Talks & Conferences (Selection)

• 26th IWH-CIREQ-GW-BOKERI Macroeconometric Workshop, Halle, 2025
• VfS Annual Conference, Cologne, 2025
• International Association for Applied Econometrics, Turin, 2025
• Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, Ho Chi Minh City, 2024
• North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Nashville, TN, 2024

Teaching

• Interim Professorship, Macroeconomics (BA level), Leipzig University, Winter Term 2025/2026
• Introduction to Octave/Matlab for Macroeconomics, Central German Doctoral Program in Economics, 2024
• DGE–CRED Practical Session: Modeling the Macroeconomic Impacts of Storms, Land Loss, and Labor Productivity Declines, Training for ministerial employees in Hanoi, 2022
• Statistical Programming Languages, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2016

Service to the Profession

• Referee, Energy Economics, 2019–2025
• Referee, The Electricity Journal, 2024
• Referee, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020

Policy Reports & Advisory Work (Selected)

• Accompanying Evaluation of the Investment Act for Coal Regions (InvKG) and the STARK Federal Program
  Expert testimony for the German Bundestag; commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), 2019–2025

• Contributor, Joint Economic Forecast (Gemeinschaftsdiagnose), 2022–2024

• Macroeconomic Modeling for Climate Adaptation in Emerging Economies
  (Kazakhstan, Georgia, Vietnam), IWH Studies No. 2, 2023

• Growth Effects of Infrastructure and Climate Funds in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  Expert testimony for the State Parliament, IWH Policy Notes No. 3, 2025

Last updated: January 2026