Clemens Fuest

Clemens Fuest (2012)

Clemens Fuest [ fu: st ] (born August 23, 1968 in Münster ) is professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , President of the Ifo Institute and member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance .

Life

After graduating from high school at Antonianum Geseke , Fuest studied economics at the University of Bochum and the University of Mannheim on a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , where he graduated in 1991 with a diploma. In 1994 he received his doctorate at the University of Cologne , and in 2000 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich . From 2001 to 2008 he held a professorship for political economics at the University of Cologne. He was then Professor of Corporate Taxation at Oxford University , Research Director of the Center for Business Taxation there and Executive Director of the Financial Research Institute at the University of Cologne. From 2013 to April 2016 he was President of the Center for European Economic Research and Professor at the University of Mannheim.

Fuest's research focuses on economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy and corporate finance, labor market and social policy as well as municipal finances. In 2006, the Handelsblatt ranked Fuest among the top 10 in a ranking of the youngest economists with the best research skills in German-speaking countries.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance and was its chairman from 2007 to 2010, Research Fellow of CESifo and IZA . He was also from 2004 to October 2008 and has been a member of the Kronberger Kreis since 2013 .

Fuest was elected President of the Ifo Institute on June 11, 2015 and took up this position on April 1, 2016 as the successor to Hans-Werner Sinn . In April 2016 he also took over the chair for political economy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he is director of the Center for Economic Studies . In 2016 he was listed in the TOP 10 of the most influential economists in Germany .

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology awarded Fuest an honorary doctorate in 2017 for his services in the field of finance .

Positions

According to his own statements, Fuest stands for ordoliberal positions and does not currently see tax increases as a means of restructuring the state budget. Fuest only supports a sales tax increase as a last resort , since it burdens everyone . The state has more of a spending problem than an income problem. He rejects a financial transaction tax and advocates tuition fees , since children from upper-class and middle-class families populate the universities. Denmark is an example of an activating welfare state. In Germany, more crèche and kindergarten places would have to be created for parents from socially disadvantaged families, as the foundations for higher education would be laid very early. A considerable amount of efficiency reserves could be raised at the universities.

Fuest expressed the fear that the refugee crisis in Germany could lead to a two-class education ("We have to be careful that we do not undermine our proven training systems with a light training"). Germany needs immigration: "Everyone who is qualified, everyone who accepts and keeps an apprenticeship position, everyone who makes progress in school should be offered the opportunity to stay here, even if they do not get the right to asylum." Fuest speaks in favor of it from exercising greater control over immigration. "In the long run one can either have a welfare state or uncontrolled immigration, but certainly not both".

Memberships

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance (since 2003; 2007–2010 Chairman)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Economic Service
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the CDU Economic Council
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ernst & Young
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Ernst & Young (2017)
• Member of the Kronberger Kreis (since 2013) and the steering group of the "Commission Tax Code" of the Market Economy Foundation
• Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 2017)
• Fellow of the German Economic Institute
• Member of the University Council of the HBK Braunschweig (2011–2015)
• Signed the manifesto of the New Social Market Economy initiative "Germany needs more growth" from September 2006
• Author at the New Social Market Economy Initiative
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Family Business Foundation

Honors

• 2013: Gustav-Stolper-Preis of the Verein für Socialpolitik .
• 2019: Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation

Web links

• Website at the ifo Institute
• Contributions in the area of ​​management at ZEW
• Contributions from Clemens Fuest in the economic service
• Financial research institute at the University of Cologne
• Former chair at the University of Cologne
• Portrait of the debt crisis, FAZ, on June 24, 2013 (cannot be read without JavaScript)
• Speech on the occasion of the award of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize in Stuttgart on May 6, 2019 , FAZ on May 7, 2019
• Literature by and about Clemens Fuest in the catalog of the German National Library
• Clemens Fuest in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} inforadio , 2010: Gamblers and Debt States , Interview by Ingo Kahle, with photo by Clemens Fuest. The content is no longer available due to depublication ; the summary and evaluation of the content is based on the presentation by user: Kreuzkölln
2. ^ Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Annual report 2017 , p. 79.
3. ↑ Brain Drain in Economics: Clemens Fuest moves to Oxford Handelsblatt on April 3, 2008 (can not be read without JavaScript )
4. ↑ Homepage of the Center ( Memento of the original of July 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ ZEW press release of January 27, 2012
6. ↑ Clemens Fuest: Researchers with the courage to use clear words. December 15, 2006, accessed on March 3, 2013 : “For example, the 39-year-old does not use the phrase" to reject for regulatory reasons ". "If there is an economic policy idea that violates regulatory principles, but has positive effects, I'll be the last to speak out against it," says Fuest. "After all, 99 percent of the population wouldn't care about regulatory concerns in such a case." 
7. ↑ Press release of the Market Economy Foundation from February 19, 2013
8. ↑ Press release from Focus Online, 2015
9. ^ Profile - Chair for Economics and Public Finance (Prof. Fuest) - LMU Munich. Retrieved January 13, 2019 . 
10. ↑ FAZ Economists Ranking - Germany's Most Influential Economists , accessed on September 4, 2016
11. ↑ Ifo President Clemens Fuest appointed honorary doctor. In: marktforschung.de. January 12, 2017, accessed January 13, 2019 . 
12. ^ Economist Clemens Fuest warns of "training light" because of the refugee crisis , FOCUS, Feb. 22, 2016
13. ↑ CESifo Group Munich - Training and Activities. Retrieved January 13, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Transparency report for the 2017 financial year. Ernst & Young, accessed on November 29, 2017 . 
15. ^ From Arabic studies to neurology: Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects 20 new members. Bavarian Academy of Sciences , March 22, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Press release of the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig, 2011 (with curriculum vitae)
17. ↑ The INSM Growth Manifesto is available on the INSM website
18. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board | Family Business Foundation. Retrieved January 23, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Gustav Stolper Prize , accessed on September 11, 2017.
20. ↑ Presentation of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prizes 2018 and 2019 on May 6, 2019 , accessed on June 4, 2019.