Michèle Tertilt

About Michele Tertilt

Michèle Tertilt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. Before returning to Germany, she was an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Her research concentrates on macroeconomics with a special focus on development and intra-family interactions, for which she was awarded several prestigious prizes such as the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award. Currently, she also serves as a Director of the Review of Economic Studies.

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Research

Michèle Tertilt's research concentrates on macroeconomics with a special focus on development and intra-family interactions. She has also worked on consumer credit and bankruptcies.

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Women in Economics

For the "Women in Economics" initiative, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and UBS interviewed leading female economists on their research. Find the portrait of Michèle Tertilt below.

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Leibniz Award

In 2019 Michèle Tertilt is awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis by the German Science Foundation (DFG) for her works that bridge the gaps between family economics, development and macroeconomics.

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Conferences

Michèle Tertilt has hosted and taken part in various conferences to a wide range of topics, including "Familiy Macro", Quantitative Macroeconomics and Cultural Change and Economic Growth in the long run.

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