The faculty members of both Universities are leading economists in their field. Professor Pierpaolo Benigno is the chairman of the MIME Governing Board. An external member of the MIME Governing Board is Prof. Dr. Thomas Jordan, chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB).

 

Please find below an overview of the core faculty members for MIME courses of both universities.

Core Faculty Basel

 

Name

Main Fields

Website
Prof. Dr. Aleksander Berentsen
 		- Monetary Theory
- Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain and Crypto Assets
- Non-conventional Monetary Policy Instruments 		WWZ Uni Basel
Prof. Dr. Sarah Lein
 		- Empirical Macroeconomics
- International Macroeconomics
- Micro Data in Economics 		sarah-lein.ch
Prof. Dr. Yvan Lengwiler

- Monetary Policy
- Financial Stability

- Financial Market and Bank Regulation

- Economics of Banking

microfoundations.org
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Maringer

- Optimization, Machine Learning, Simulation
- Computational Intelligence
- Data Analysis
- Applications in Banking and Finance

WWZ Uni Basel
Prof. Dr. Andreas Müller
 		- International Macroeconomics and Finance
- Public Finance
- Macro Development
- Political Economy 		Google Sites
Prof Dr. Angelo Ranaldo
(from 01.08.2024)

- Market Microstructure

- Money Markets

- Exchange Rates

Google Sites
Prof. Dr. Fabian Schär

- Fintech

- Public Blockchains

- Crypto Assets and Decentralized Finance Protocols

WWZ Uni Basel

 

 

Core Faculty Bern

Name

Courses Offered

Website
Dr. Andreas Bachmann - Mathematical Methods andreas-bachmann.ch
Prof. Dr. Philipp Baumann

- Portfolio Optimization

PQM Uni Bern
Prof. Dr. Luca Benati - Monetary Policy
- Empirical Macroeconomics II
- Seminar: Empirical Macroeconomics II 		lucabenati.ch
Prof. Dr. Pierpaolo Benigno
 		- Monetary Theory
- International Monetary Economics
- Seminar: Macroeconomics and International Economics 		benigno.ch
PD. Dr. Eddy Bekkers - Multinational Firms and Production
- Theory and Empirics of International Trade 		World Trade Institute
Dr. Marc Brunner - Seminar: Empirical Finance IFM Uni Bern
Prof. Dr. Anastasia Burya
 		- Quantitative Macroeconomics anastasiaburya.com
Prof. Dr. Julien Cujean - Fixed Income
- Investments 		juliencujean.com
Prof. Dr. Susan Emmenegger - International Financial Regulation Faculty of Law
Prof. Dr. Kornelia Fabisik - Risk Management fabisik.com
Prof. Dr. Joseph Francois - Seminar: Advanced Topics in International Economics WTI
Prof. Dr. Michael Gerfin - Causal Analysis mgerfin.ch
Dr. Sascha Jakob - Seminar: Empirical Finance IFM Uni Bern
Prof. Dr. Igor Letina - Microeconomics II igorletina.com
Prof. Dr. Blaise Melly - Econometrics II
- Time Series Analysis II
- Causal Analysis 		sites.google.com/site/blaisemelly
Prof. Dr. Cyril Monnet - Banking Theory cyrilmonnet.ch
Prof. Dr. Costanza Naguib - Applied Data Analysis
- Machine Learning in Economics 		costanzanaguib.ch
Prof. Dr. Dirk Niepelt

- Macroeconomics II

- Fiscal and Monetary Policies

niepelt.ch
Prof. Dr. Apostolis Philippopoulos - Seminar: Economics and Politics of European Integration aueb.gr/users/aphil/
Prof. Dr. Philipp Valta

- Advanced Valuation

- Financing and Capital Structure

valta.ch

 

 

Full Faculty

In order to see the entire list of faculty members of the two Universities, please refer to the following pages:

Faculty University of Bern
Faculty University of Basel