Oct 2025 – present
Munich, DE
Munich, DE
M.Sc. Economics
LMU Munich
About
Economics student working where rigorous method meets real policy questions.
Who I am
I’m a master’s student in Economics at LMU Munich, with a background in economic consulting and applied research. I’m drawn to work that pairs careful empirical method with questions that matter for policy and markets: building the data and the models, then translating what they show into decisions people can act on.
Before Munich I studied Economics and Political Science in Heidelberg, with a semester at Leiden, and spent two years in applied research at LBBW and economic consulting at DIW Econ in Berlin. Across both I worked the full life cycle of a research question: collecting and cleaning the data, running the analysis, and writing it up for institutional clients.
Lately I’ve been drawn toward computational methods and their economic applications; machine learning and the econometrics of causal inference are particularly intriguing to me.
I’m open to roles in economic research and consulting, as well as more finance-centered positions such as asset management and portfolio operations. If that’s you, the CV and research pages have the details, and I’m easy to reach on the contact page.
Curriculum Vitae
CV
Education
Oct 2021 – Jul 2025
Heidelberg, DE
Heidelberg, DE
B.Sc. Economics, Minor in Political Science
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Final grade 1.8 · Bachelor thesis 1.3
- Coursework: macro- & microeconomics, data science, public finance
Aug 2023 – Jan 2024
The Hague, NL
The Hague, NL
Erasmus+ Exchange
Leiden University
2012 – 2021
Schifferstadt, DE
Schifferstadt, DE
Abitur (A-levels)
Paul von Denis Gymnasium
- Final grade 1.2
Experience
Apr 2025 – Jul 2025
Berlin, DE
Berlin, DE
Intern, Economic Consulting
DIW Econ
- Applied econometric methods to assess regional and sectoral transformation dynamics
- Managed the full data life cycle: collection, cleaning, and visualization, ensuring robustness and reproducibility
- Produced evidence-based policy insights for analytical deliverables to high-level institutional clients
Jan 2024 – Mar 2025
Stuttgart, DE
Stuttgart, DE
Research Associate & Intern, Sustainability Research
LBBW, Baden-Württemberg State Bank
- Conducted independent research in sustainability and public finance to support strategy and client publications
- Applied policy-analysis methods to sustainability topics, producing research briefings and reports
- Collaborated with internal and governmental stakeholders to turn findings into actionable insights
Research Associate May 2024 – Mar 2025 · Intern Jan 2024 – Apr 2024
Selected projects
Policy analysis
Climate, technology & economics
- Policy evaluations on carbon capture, carbon revenue recycling, and AI in economics
- Briefs on the policy tools and party programs shaping Germany’s energy transition and industrial transformation
Market & environmental
CO₂ pricing & sustainability outlooks
- Built a CO₂-price analysis framework supporting LBBW’s sustainability outlooks and risk assessments
- Authored market insights for regular research publications
Macro & regional
Regional transformation research
- Regional analyses including the “Energy Transition in Hannover” study and the Transformation Fund Saarland 2025 assessment
- Scenario research on global policy shifts, including sensitivity studies on U.S. election outcomes
Skills
Technical
R · Stata · Python · Bloomberg · Refinitiv Eikon · LaTeX · MS Office
Languages
German & English (fluent) · French (conversational)
Certifications
Bloomberg Market Concepts · TOEFL iBT (C1)
Research & Writing
Research
University research and applied work from banking and consulting: empirical, policy-facing, and method-driven.
University work selection
Bachelor thesis · 2025 · grade 1.3
Bridging the Innovation Gap: How Regional Quality of Government Shapes Innovation Across Europe
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg · supervised by Prof. Dr. Zeno Enders
A panel study of 125 European regions (2016–2022) testing whether the quality of regional government drives innovation, using correlated random-effects and instrumental-variable estimation. The gains prove largest in Europe’s poorer regions.
Download thesis (PDF) ↓Machine learning seminar paper · in progress
When Topic Classifiers Drift: Reading Central-Bank Communication
LMU Munich · computational text analysis
Testing whether topic classifiers trained on older speeches still read modern central-bank language, using unsupervised TF-IDF clustering and LLM-based classification. Drift proves sharpest in financial-regulation vocabulary, hidden within topline shares.
Write-up available on requestLBBW market research selection
LBBW · Baden-Württemberg State Bank
Sustainability & markets research
Published research for institutional and private clients
- CO₂ price analysis. A framework feeding LBBW’s sustainability outlooks and risk assessments.
- ESG market research. Regular market commentary and insights focused on ESG themes.
- Technology spotlights. In-depth research into decarbonisation technologies such as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS).
DIW Econ consulting selection
DIW Econ · economic consulting
Selected studies
Analytical deliverables for institutional clients
- Environmental tax model. A feasibility study developing a tax model to comprehensively price the environmental harm of goods and services, for the European Commission.
- Transformationsfonds Saarland 2025. “Gutachten zum Transformationsfonds des Saarlandes 2025: Fortschritt und Herausforderungen der Transformation des Saarlandes,” commissioned by the Land Saarland.
- Wertschöpfung der Energiewende. “Zur Wertschöpfung der Energiewende in der Region Hannover,” commissioned by the Stadt Hannover.
Off the clock
Off the clock
When I’m not in front of a dataset, I’m usually outside: on a bike, in the mountains, or near the water.
Road cycling
My main sport. Long days in the saddle around Munich, and into the Alpine foothills when the season allows.
Mountains & sea
Hiking and the outdoors in summer, and any excuse to swap the city for open water. Munich’s position between the Alps and the lakes is hard to beat.
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Get in touch
Contact
Happy to talk about research, roles, or anything in between.
- Emailgregor.mas@web.de
- LinkedIn/in/gregor-mas
- GitHub/gregormas
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- LocationMunich, Germany