About me
I was born in Hannover, Germany (see map) but am now a permanent resident of the U.S.
I am married to my lovely wife Maureen and we have two children, Samuel and Clara.
Places I have lived include Billings, MT, State College, PA, Eckernförde, Germany,
College Station, TX, Dallas, TX and Hamburg, Germany.
Currently, I live in Bryn Mawr, PA, which is in the greater Philadelphia area.
I went to university at Christian-Albrechts Universität in Kiel,
Germany. I received my Diplom in Volkswirtschaftslehre.
(That's economics.) My focus was international economics.
I spent the academic year 2001/2002 at Penn State University.
This is where I took my first Ph.D. level economics courses and
met my wife-to-be. Both were important factors in my decision
to pursue graduate studies in the U.S.
I received my Ph.D. in economics from Texas A&M University.
My dissertation consists of chapters on Business Cycle Accounting
for the UK, fiscal stabilization in an open economy setting and
vertical FDI.
In the academic year 2009/2010 I was a visiting
assistant professor at Southern Methodist University. I taught
Principles of Macroeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics.
Since August 2010 I have been working at the
Villanova School of Business at the
Fall 2013 and academic year 2020/2021 I was on sabbatical leave and visited
the Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel, Germany.