About Me
I am a tenure track Assistant Professor (W1) of Econometrics and Statistics at the Institute of Finance and Statistics at the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn.
I hold a PhD in econometrics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Research
Research interests: I am interested in developing practical statistical methods with a focus on unobserved heterogeneity.
Why should we care? Unobserved heterogeneity is pervasive in economics and business:
- Heterogeneous treatment effects and other parameters
- Explanatory variables not captured by data
- Unobserved “fundamental” characteristics of agents
- Measurement error
Ignoring this heterogeneity in non-experimental settings may lead to crippling bias and invalid inference. Accordingly, we need methods that can handle this issue.
Teaching
Blog
I occasionally blog about data, statistics, and programming. Check out some recent posts:
Introducing unit-averaging
unit-averaging: A package for unit averaging in Python. Efficient ensemble estimation of unit-specific parameters Continue reading Introducing unit-averaging
How to Stand Out in a Master's in Economics Application?
Having credible and verifiable projects is often enough for an outstanding application Continue reading How to Stand Out in a Master's in Economics Application?
The Hidden Delta Method in statsmodels (A Worked Example)
Using the delta method in Python with statsmodels for nonlinear inference: a practical example of confidence intervals and tests Continue reading The Hidden Delta Method in statsmodels (A Worked Example)
Why I Switched from Beamer to Quarto Reveal.js for My Presentations
Why I switched from Beamer to Quarto Reveal.js for reproducible, maintainable, and portable slides in teaching, research, and data science. Continue reading Why I Switched from Beamer to Quarto Reveal.js for My Presentations