Faculty of Business Studies and Economics

Research assistant & PhD student

Paul Ritschel, M.Sc.

Emailpritsche(at)rptu.de
Phone+49 (631) 205 5039
Room42-436
Office Hoursby appiontment

Academic background

2019 - 2021University of Kaiserslautern, Industrial engineering in the field of Chemistry (M.Sc.)
2016 - 2017Queensland University of Technoloy (QUT) Brisbane
2014 - 2019University of Kaiserslautern, Industrial engineering in the field of Chemistry (B.Sc.)

Research areas

  • Contract Theory
  • Dynamic Macroeconomics
  • Overlapping-Generations Models
  • Financial Economics and Banking

Teaching

Publications

Rauber, T., & Ritschel, P. (2023). Banking Competition and Capital Dependence of the Production Sector: Growth and Welfare Implications, International Review of Economics & Finance, 89(Part B), 676-698, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2023.10.011.

     Presented at:  2023 & 2024 Meetings of the Econometric Society in Nairobi (AFES), Beijing (AMES), Singapore (AMES-ESE), Delhi (AMES-CSW).

Ritschel, P. (2023). Capital Market Power and Economic Growth in an Overlapping-Generations Model with Rational Expectations, Theoretical Economics Letters, 13(5), 1253-1265, doi: https://doi.org/10.4236/tel.2023.135069.

     Presented at: GAMES 2024, the 7th World Congress of the Game Theory Society in Beijing, China, 2024.

Ritschel, P., & Wenzelburger, J. (2024). Financial Intermediation and Efficient Risk Sharing in Two-Period Lived OLG Models, Economic Theory Bulletin, 12(1), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40505-024-00263-z. 

     Presented at: 22nd annual SAET conference in Paris, France, 2023.

Ritschel, P., & Wenzelburger, J. (2023). Financial Intermediation and Business Cycles in Two-Period Lived OLG Models, SSRN Paper, 4286324, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4286324.

Ritschel, P., & Wenzelburger, J. (2024). Green Transformation in an Overlapping-Generations Economy with Production Externalities.

     Presented at: International Workshop “Optimal Timing and Control to Eradicate Firms’ Polluting Activities: The Roles of Fiscal and Monetary Policies” in Urbino, Italy, 2024.

 Ritschel, P., & Wenzelburger, J. (2024). An Elementary Proof of the Concavity of the Production-Possibility Frontier, SSRN Paper, 4973036, https://ssrn.com/abstract=4973036.