Stefan Bender

Stefan Bender is Head of the Data and Service Center of the Deutsche Bundesbank and – since 2018 - Honorary Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University Mannheim. With his position at Deutsche Bundesbank he is chair of INEXDA (the Granular Data Network) and member of the German Data Forum (https://www.konsortswd.de/en/). Before joining the Deutsche Bundesbank Bender was head of the Research Data Center (RDC) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), which he has interna-tional established a research data centre including access to IAB data in the US (for example Berkeley, Harvard). His research interests are data access, data quality, merging administra-tive, survey data and/or big data, record linkage and establishment data. He has published over 100 articles in journals including the American Economic Review or the Quarterly Journal of Economics.