TOPICS I HAVE BEEN OR CURRENTLY WORKING ON AS A PHD CANDIDATE AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

There has been a surprising lack of attention to the endogenous dynamics of trade networks until recently, particularly in empirical research. To fill this void, our purpose is to provide a careful statistical analysis, by means of a stochastic actor-oriented model, of the formation of input-output interlinkages in the global production network, using the OECD Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) Tables. If you are interested in this topic please feel free to contact me and tell me what you think about it!

Business cycles in Europe are highly synchronized. This comovement is of great macroeconomic interest, as it is typically seen as a necessary condition for the feasibility of a common European monetary and regulatory policy. However, there is still no consensus on the mechanisms behind such a concurrent cyclicality.This paper examines this peculiarity by means of a Structural Decomposition Analysis (SDA) and a Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As in previous work we are using a Leontief Inverse as a starting point, which can be viewed as a weighted economic network.

Viewing the economy as - in modern terms - a network, traces back to the ideas of Quesnay (1758) with his Tableau économique or the concept of Sir William Petty recognizing a circular flow of production interdependencies in the British economy in the mid-seventeenth century (Miller and Blair, 2009). This small review paper aims to give a brief overview about the most relevant literature on production networks in recent years, from a theoretical as well as empirical perspective, especially relying on literature categorizations of Carvalho and Tahbaz-Salehi (2018), and Bernard et al. (2019). Feel free to tell me what you think about it!

This is a paper I have been working on with a dear colleague and my supervisor in the previous year. It is currently in an internal review process. However, I would like to share the abstract with you. If you have any questions please to not bother to contact me accordingly. The topic of this paper is at the forefront of current research. We propose a novel channel by which microeconomic shocks can influence macroeconomic behaviour and the business cycle by incorporating size and network perspectives for aggregate fluctuations. Feel free to tell me what you think about it!

The desire to understand business cycle fluctuations, trade interdependencies and comovement has a long tradition in economic thinking. From input-output economics to business cycle theory, researchers aimed to find appropriate answers from an empirical as well as a theoretical perspective. This thesis empirically analyses how the production structure of the global economy and several states developed over time, what their distributional properties are and if there are network specific metrics that allow identifying structurally important nodes, on a global, national and sectoral scale. For this, the World Input-Output Database was used, and different statistical methods were applied.