Diego Känzig
Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDiego Känzig is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, where he also serves as a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. Based in Evanston, Illinois, he pursues macroeconomics and macro-finance with a sharp focus on climate change and inequality, examining how energy and policy shape financial cycles and household finance. His work advances two research agendas: climate’s role in macro fluctuations and the implications of inequality for macro policy. In addition to Northwestern, he is a Research Affiliate at CEPR and maintains ties with the NBER’s broader economics community, reflecting a strongly policy-relevant research profile. He brings nearly a decade of research and teaching experience, with prior engagements at the Bank of England and multiple prestigious programs at LBS, Bern, and Chicago, underscoring his global training. An active contributor to the economics community, his profile aligns climate, energy, and monetary policy to illuminate business cycle dynamics.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting graduate student, Visiting graduate student at University of ChicagoMacroeconometrics Summer School, Macroeconometrics Summer School at Barcelona Graduate School of EconomicsMaster of Science (MSc), International and Monetary Economics, summa cum laude, Master of Science (MSc), International and Monetary Economics, summa cum laude at Universität BernDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics at London Business SchoolMaster of Science (MSc), International and Monetary Economics, summa cum laude, Master of Science (MSc), International and Monetary Economics, summa cum laude at Universität BaselLondon School of Economics and Political Science
German, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (35)
language-detection9
spell-checker9
part-of-speech-tagger9
matlab8
sentiment-analysis8
octave8
tikz8
pyspark8
entity-extraction8
figures8
spark-ml8
pgfplots8
natural-language-processing7
question-answering7
latex7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dkaenzig/diegokaenzig.com
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:57 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
dkaenzig/replicationOilSupplyNews
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year
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