Christina Brinkmann

Christina Brinkmann is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, specializing in intersections of labor economics and finance. Previously a doctoral student at Universität Bonn, she graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics in 2025 after completing dual B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and Economics at the same institution.

Her research focuses on labor market rigidities, corporate risk management, and insurance market dynamics. Key areas include labor hoarding's impact on foreign exchange hedging, short-time work policy efficacy, and insurer default risk competition. She employs German administrative datasets and econometric methods to analyze firm behavior under institutional constraints.

Recent publications reveal trends in labor-finance linkages: firms with hoarded labor reduce FX risk exposure, short-time work extensions induce wage flexibility rather than employment retention, and insurance markets self-regulate default risks through vertical differentiation. Her work bridges theoretical modeling with empirical policy analysis.

Brinkmann maintains affiliations with both Boston University (primary) and Universität Bonn (alumni), with research connections to the CRC TR 224 project C03. She previously interned at ZEW and the European Central Bank during undergraduate studies.