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Matthias Schündeln (* 1970) is a German economist teaching at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Biography
Matthias Schündeln studied Mathematics and Geography at the University of Cologne, completing both subjects with the Staatsexamen in 1996. He studied Economics in Cologne and at the Yale University, M.A. in 2000 and M.Phil. in 2001. In 2004 he finished his Ph.D. with the dissertation Firm Dynamics in the Presence of Financing Constraints: Ghanaian Manufacturing.

In 2004 he became Assistent Professor for Economics and Social sciences at the Harvard University. Since 2006 he has been a Research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. In 2009 he followed a calling of the Universität Frankfurt am Main to the Chair of International Economic Policy, endowed by the Frankfurt Trade Fair.

His research interests are development economics, evaluation of development programs, migration and saving, and law and economics.

Matthias Schündeln is married to Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln with whom he published several scientific papers.

Selected publications

 * Financing Constraints: A New Test and an Application to Developing Countries , Harvard, 2007
 * Are Immigrants More Mobile than Natives? Evidence from Germany. IZA, Diskussion Paper #3226, 2007. (Abstract)
 * with Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln: Who Stays, Who Goes, Who Returns? East-West Migration within Germany since Reunification. In: Economics of Transition. 17, 3, 2009.

Endowed university chair
In 2009, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first Frankfurter Messe, the Frankfurt Trade Fair endowed to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main a Chair of International Economic Policy. The university appointed Matthias Schündeln from the Harvard University.