Dr. Britta Kohlbrecher

Dr. Britta Kohlbrecher

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About her:

Britta Kohlbrecher works at the International Monetary Fund since 2023. Between 2020 and 2023, she worked at the German Federal Ministry of Finance. From 2016-2020, she was post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Macroeconomics.

She received her doctoral degree in economics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in June 2016. Prior to her doctoral studies, she studied International Relations (B.A.) at TU Dresden and Science Po Bordeaux and International Economics (M.A.) at the University of Göttingen and the University of California, Los Angeles. During her doctoral studies she held a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and was a BGPE Doctoral Student.

Britta Kohlbrecher’s research focuses on macroeconomics and the labor market. CV

Publications:

Kohlbrecher, B., Merkl, C., Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2022, 73, 103458.

Hochmuth, B., Kohlbrecher, B., Merkl, C., Gartner, H. Hartz IV and the Decline of German unemployment: A Macroeconomic Evaluation, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021, 127, 104114.

Brown, A., Kohlbrecher, B., Merkl C. und Dennis Snower, The Effects of Productivity and Benefits on Unemployment: Breaking the Link, Economic Modelling, 2021, 94, pp. 967–980

Kohlbrecher, B., Merkl, C. und Nordmeier D. „Revisiting the Matching Function“, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016, 69, 350-374. (Link)