Tim Mennel

Dr. Tim Mennel is Senior Research Analyst at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.
From 2003 to 2005 Tim Mennel was employed as a teaching and research assistant at the chair of Public Economics at the University of Bonn.
As a research scholar he returned to UPF and later visited the department of economics at Stanford University.
In June 2004 he received his PhD from BGSE (advisor: Prof.
Jürgen von Hagen) with a thesis on optimal unemployment insurance.
Since October 2005 he has been employed at the ZEW in the research department "Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management".
He works on quantitative modelling of environmental and energy policy.
As a senior researcher he is responsible for the research area "Energy Economics".
He studied Mathematics at the Universities Bonn and Paris VII, graduating in December 1998 with a Diploma thesis in the area of Algebraic Topology.
After an internship at the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) of the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh he began his graduate studies of economics in October 1999 at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE).
In 2001 he visited the Graduate Program of Economics and Management of the University Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, as a European Doctoral Programme (EDP) exchange student.
At UPF and after his return to Bonn he worked in the area of dynamic principal-agent models.