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 appointment only

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 interests

Dynamic macroeconomics, Overlapping-generations models, Multi-sector growth models, Business cycles, Contract theory, Banking 

Publications

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

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

Ritschel, P. (2025). Market Power, Strategic Factor Supply, and Economic Growth in an Overlapping-Generations Model, Revised and extended version of the TEL article, SSRN 5391787. https://ssrn.com/abstract=5391787

Ritschel, P., & Wenzelburger, J. (2024). Financial Intermediation and Efficient Risk Sharing in Two-Period Lived OLG Models, Economic Theory Bulletin, 12, 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40505-024-00263-z

Ritschel, P., & Wenzelburger, J. (2024). Financial Intermediation and Business Cycles in Two-Period Lived OLG Models, Extended version of the ETB article, SSRN 4286324. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4286324

Ritschel, P., & Wenzelburger, J. (2025). Green Transformation and Fiscal Policy in a Two-Sector OLG Model with Production Externalities, Working Paper, SSRN 5169780. ssrn.com/abstract=5169780

Ritschel, P., & Wenzelburger, J. (2025). An Elementary Proof of the Concavity of the Production-Possibility Frontier, Working Paper, SSRN 4973036. ssrn.com/abstract=4973036

Conference Contributions

22nd annual SAET conference, Paris, 2023. 

AFES Meeting of the Econometric Society, Nairobi, 2023. 

AMES-ESE Meeting of the Econometric Society, Beijing, 2024. 

AMES-CSW Meeting of the Econometric Society, Delhi, 2024. 

7th World Congress of the Game Theory Society (GAMES 2024), Beijing, 2024. 

24th annual SAET conference, Ischia, 2025. 

Refereeing for

Macroeconomic Dynamics, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Theoretical Economics Letters