Curriculum Vitae Sebastian K. Rüth
CURRENT POSITION
Post-doctoral researcher at the Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics, Heidelberg University, 2018-present.
EDUCATION
PhD in Economics (Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude), University of Würzburg (Germany), 2012-2016.
Research visit (invitation by Rudi Bachmann), University of Notre Dame, South Bend (Indiana, USA), 08-12 2015.
Advanced doctoral courses, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), 2013 and 2014.
Advanced doctoral course, Bavarian Graduate Program Economics (Germany), 2012.
M.Sc. in Economics, University of Würzburg, 2010-2012.
B.Sc. in Economic Sciences, University of Würzburg, 2007-2010.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University (Belgium): supervision by Gert Peersman; Ghent University's Special Research Fund (BOF), 2016-2018.
Research and teaching assistant to Peter Bofinger, Chair for Monetary Policy and International Economics, University of Würzburg, 2011-2016 (full-time since 2012).
Lecturing tutor and student research assistant to Peter Bofinger, Chair for Monetary Policy and International Economics, University of Würzburg, 2008-2011.
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Primary Fields
Monetary policy, applied macroeconometrics, international finance.
Secondary Fields
Survey data, mortgage markets, oil and food commodities.
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Conference grant for the 31st Annual Congress of the European Economic Association in Geneva; awarded by the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), 2016.
Award of the Georg-von-Schanz-Association: best Master's degree of the year, University of Würzburg, 2012.
Dean's list, Georg-von-Schanz-Association (expired with M.Sc.), 2010-2012.
Second best Bachelor's degree of the year, University of Würzburg, 2010.
Fellowship of former interns, UniCredit Group, 2009-present.
Scholarship of the career network: e-fellows, 2006-2016 (alumnus since 2016).
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
Society for Economic Dynamics, Annual Meeting, Mexico City*; 5th HeiKaMEtrics workshop of the Universities of Heidelberg, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe; invited seminar, Technical University Vienna; 24th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF), Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan; Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, University of Sussex; invited seminar, University of Chemnitz; 33rd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Cologne (declined); German Economic Association (VfS) Annual Conference 2018, Freiburg i. Br. (declined); Theories and Methods in Macroeconomics (T2M) Conference, Université Paris-Dauphine; Invited Seminar, University of Innsbruck; invited seminar, Ghent University; Macro-Research-Group seminar, Ghent University; invited seminar, University of Halle/Halle Institute for Economic Research; 2018.
Invited seminar, University of Düsseldorf; invited seminar, University of Würzburg; Royal Economic Society PhD Meetings, London; 2017.\par
Invited seminar, Ghent University; Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Geneva; European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Geneva*; Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, Augsburg; 2016.
European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Toulouse*; Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, Hamburg; Macroeconometrics Summer, Course: Bayesian methods for DSGE models (Kristoffer Nimark), Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2014.
Macroeconometrics Summer, Course 1: Bayesian vector autoregressions and small sample corrections in VARs (Albert Marcet and Marek Jarocinski), Coures 2: Empirical time series methods for macroeconomic analysis (Luca Gambetti), Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2013.
FIFOS Workshop, University of Würzburg; Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Malaga*; European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Malaga*; Bavarian Graduate Program, Course: Advanced econometrics (Jeffrey Wooldridge); 2012.
Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (participant only), Frankfurt; 2011.
* Presentation by co-author.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Heidelberg University
Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy, lecture and TA session, 2018 (winter).
Ghent University
Master theses in Economics (supervision and/or member of commission), 2016-2018.
University of Würzburg
Executive MBA program, Monetary Policy, external instructor, 2018.
European Monetary Policy, stand-in lecturer for Peter Bofinger (including TA sessions), 2016 (summer).
Business Cycles & Stabilization Policies, TA to Eric Mayer, 2012-2015 (summer).
European Monetary Policy, TA to Peter Bofinger, 2012-2016 (summer).
Monetary Policy (student seminar supervision), 2012 (summer).
Recruiting, supervision, and training of tutors in Economics, 2012-2016 (winter).
Bachelor theses in Economics (supervision), 2012-2014.
Principles of Economics, TA to Peter Bofinger, 2008-2015 (winter).
Active cooperation: new editions of Peter Bofinger's textbook (Introduction to Economics), 2010 and 2015.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Organization of the 6th Ghent University Workshop on Empirical Macroeconomics (jointly with G. Peersman and S. De Schryder), Ghent University, 2018.
Organization of the 5th Ghent University Workshop on Empirical Macroeconomics (jointly with G. Peersman and S. De Schryder), Ghent University, 2017.
Organization of Macro-Research-Group (MRG) meetings, Ghent University, 2017-2018.
Support of the organizing team at 28th EALE Conference European Association of Labour Economists), Ghent University, 2016.
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
