The Economists´ Quartet

A Game, not a Theory

by Sandra Gruescu and Niels Peter Thomas


About Sandra Gruescu

Sandra Gruescu is a research associate at the Department of Economics and Public Finance, Institute of Economics at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. She is currently working on her PhD thesis about the ageing population and its effects on economic growth. Her other interests are the determinants of the duration of unemployment for women, the German pension system´s taxation and the linkage between ethics and economics. She holds a degree in Economics from the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. She is married and has one child.

Send me an email at sandra.gruescu@theeconomistsquartet.org
See my homepage at Technische Universität Darmstadt

 Sandra Gruescu

About Niels Peter Thomas

Niels Peter Thomas 

Niels Thomas is a research associate at the Chair of Political Economy, Institute of Economics at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. He is currently working on his PhD thesis, which will be about public choice issues of high-risk decisions. He received a combined degree in electrical engineering and economics (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing., equivalent to a master´s degree) at Darmstadt University of Technology. Before he graduated, he spent some years working and doing a research project about car recycling in China. In his spare time, he loves taking part in Internet auctions, bidding for old books about economics.

Send me an email at niels.peter.thomas@theeconomistsquartet.org
See my homepage at Technische Universität Darmstadt
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