I joined the Structural and Climate Policies Division in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as an Economist in July 2024.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Mannheim and a member of the Collaborative Research Center TR 224 “Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges” in project A03 with Michèle Tertilt. In addition, I also worked as a Research Associate at the European University Institute (EUI) with Philipp Kircher on his ERC-Project “Technological Change: New Sources, Consequences, and Impact Mitigation”.

I obtained a PhD in Economics at the EUI in September 2020. My supervisors were Árpád Ábrahám and Dominik Sachs.

My research fields are macroeconomics, labor and public economics.

Here is my CV.

Contact: koll at uni-mannheim.de

News

• Updated Working Paper, April 2025: Quantifying Okun’s Leaky Bucket: The Case of Progressive Childcare Subsidies

• Published in Labour Economics, October 2024: The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Mothers as Role Models?

• New Working Paper, June 2024: Future versus Today’s Improvements: the Trade-off of Place-based Policies

Recent and upcoming presentations

• April 18, 2025: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

• May 8, 2025: Cornell University, Labor WIP Seminar

• May 13, 2025: Jobs & Growth Seminar, IMF

• May 27, 2025: Leuven Summer Event

• June 27, 2025: Society of Economic Dynamics, Copenhagen

• July 15, 2025: NBER Summer Institute, Macro & Inequality (co-author presenting)

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