Nico Stoeckmann is a researcher currently working at Paderborn University, Germany. He teaches Multinational Finance and Advanced International Economics. He studied management and economics at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and economics at Paderborn University. His interests include international economics with a special focus on factor movements; monetary economics and the effects of central bank policy; and traditional macroeconomics. He works both theoretically and empirically and pays special attention to the gravity model in his current projects. His email address is nico.stoeckmann@uni-paderborn.de.