Marcel Fratzscher Explained

Marcel Fratzscher
Birth Date:25 January 1971
Birth Place:Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Nationality:German
Institution:DIW Berlin
Humboldt-University of Berlin
Field:International economics
Macroeconomics
Alma Mater:Trinity College, Oxford (BA)
Harvard University (MPP)
European University Institute (PhD)
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Marcel Fratzscher (born January 25, 1971) is a German economist and professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Since February 2013 he has been president of the Berlin-based economic research institute DIW Berlin. He was previously head of International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank. He also teaches International Finance in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Education

Fratzscher passed the Vordiplom at the University of Kiel, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Trinity College, Oxford, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. During the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Fratzscher coincidentally worked at the Harvard Center for International Development in Jakarta, Indonesia giving him a close up view of a country affected by the crisis.

Career

His field of interests include macroeconomics and monetary economics, in particular the economic effects of central bank announcements.

In 2013, Fratzscher was named member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology.[1] Later that year, he joined Henrik Enderlein, Clemens Fuest, Jakob von Weizsäcker and others in founding the Glienicker Gruppe, a group of pro-European lawyers, economists and political scientists.[2]

Since 2018, Fratzscher has been a member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, convened by UN Under-Secretary-General Liu Zhenmin.[3]

Criticism

His book on inequality (Verteilungskampf: Warum Deutschland immer ungleicher wird) was based on an OECD study which claimed that inequality reduces economic growth. The study was questioned by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research.[4]

Other activities

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.bmwi.de/DE/Presse/pressemitteilungen,did=587408.html Professorin Christina Gathmann und Professor Marcel Fratzscher in Wissenschaftlichen Beirat beim BMWi berufen
  2. http://www.glienickergruppe.de/ZEIT_Artikel%20der%20Glienicker%20Gruppe.pdf Mobil, gerecht, einig
  3. https://www.un.org/pt/node/97567 High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs
  4. News: Dietrich Creutzburg . Einkommensunterschiede schaden nicht . . 22 March 2016 . 8 February 2020.
  5. https://www.hertie-school.org/mediaandevents/press/news/news-details/article/board-of-trustees-welcomes-two-new-members/News/detail/ Board of Trustees Welcomes Two New Members
  6. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC16_Global_Fiscal_Systems_From_Crisis_to_Sustainability_report.pdf Global Fiscal Systems: From Crisis to Sustainability
  7. https://deutschland-rundet-auf.de/presse/ Board of Trustees