Dr. Bianca Willert

Dr. Bianca Willert

Curriculum Vitae

Bianca Willert is a research assistant (postdoc) at the Chair of Labor and Regional Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, since April 2022. From 2016 to March 2022 she was a research assistant at the Chair of International Economics at the University of Rostock, where she received her Ph.D. She studied Economics (MSc) at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.

Courses

Master: Lecture Empirical Labour Economics

Bachleor: Class Macroeconomics, Class Labour Economics

Research interests

Labor Economics, Economic Development, Applied Econometrics, Economic History and International Trade

Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

„Masters and Slaves: A Matching Model of Forced Labor with Heterogeneous Workers“, in: CESifo Economic Studies, 68/2 (2022): 200-218 (Working Paper: Thünen-Series of Applied Economic Theory – Working Paper, No. 159)

„Modern Slavery, Corruption, and Hysteresis“, in: European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 64 (2020), 101917 (with M. Rauscher, Working Paper: CESifo Working Paper No. 7944)

Working Papers

„Modern Slavery – An Empirical Analysis“, Thünen-Series of Applied Economic Theory – Working Paper, No. 167, 2021

„Forced Labor and Slavery: A Demand-Sided Model“, mimeo, 2021

„How Intermediates Trade affects the Formation of Free Trade Agreements: A study analyzing Pairwise Trade Flows of 70 Countries“, Thünen-Series of Applied Economic Theory – Working Paper No. 147, 2016