Marc is a Senior Associate Professor in Economics. He obtained a diploma (master equivalent) degree in Economics from the University of Bielefeld, and his PhD in Economics from the University of Hamburg.Prior to his appointment at IBSS, Marc held appointments as Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Aberdeen, and as Economist at the ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. Marc is member (fellow) of the CESifo Research Network and Research Associate of the ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Resources.Marc’s research focuses on identifying, describing, and explaining patterns in univariate and multivariate time series data. He is particularly interested in large price movements, and he attempts to understand whether or not these movements can be explained by market fundamentals. In addition, he is interested in co-movement between time series. He works on a number of commodity and financial markets, in particular crude oil markets, emissions trading schemes such as the EU ETS, and markets for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Recently, Marc also began working in the area of climate econometrics.In addition to these specific research areas, Marc has a general interest in economics of climate change, energy transition, and evaluation of environmental economic policies.Marc actively publishes in journals such as Energy Economics (ABS:3, ABDC:A*), Journal of International Money and Finance (ABS:3,ABDC:A), and Environmental and Resource Economics (ABS:3,ABDC:A).

Evaluation of Environmental Policies

Economics of Financial and Commodity Markets

Economics of Climate Change and Energy Transition

Applied Time Series Analysis

Economics of Cryptocurrencies

Climate Econometrics

Senior Associate Professor in Economics, International Business School Suzhou, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, since 2021

Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Aberdeen, 2013-2020

Economist, ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, 2008-2013

Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Hamburg, 2004-2008

Member (Fellow) of CESifo Research Netword, since 2015

Research Associate of ifo Centre for Energy, Climate and Resources, since 2014