Kai Carstensen

Kai Carstensen , (born September 27, 1971 in Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein ) is Professor of Economics at the University of Kiel . From 2007 to 2014 he was head of the business cycle and surveys department at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich . He is married and has one child.

Life

He did his doctorate in 2000 with Gerd Hansen at the University of Kiel , where he also completed his habilitation in 2008 . Between 2002 and 2007 he was head of the department monetary policy and coordinator of the research program Cycles, Growth and macroeconomic policies at the Institute for World Economics in Kiel .

From 2007 to 2014 he was head of the Business Cycle and Surveys division at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich , represented the Ifo Institute in charge of the joint forecast of the economic research institutes and headed the Ifo Economic Forecast.

He is a member of the CESifo research network and the econometrics committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik . He advises the federal government within the framework of the joint diagnosis of the economic research institutes and is a member of the study commission Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life - Paths to Sustainable Business and Social Progress in the Social Market Economy of the German Bundestag .

His main research interests are monetary policy , macroeconomic fluctuations and economic forecasting .

In numerous, mostly empirical, articles he has dealt with the analysis of macroeconomically relevant variables such as production , employment , interest rates and inflation in Germany and Europe. In addition, he has dealt with questions of monetary policy and the demand for money in the euro area, but also worked on topics of long-term growth .

On October 22nd, 2013 it was announced that Carstensen was moving back to Kiel University. There he takes over the chair for econometrics .

Publications

List of publications by Kai Carstensen maintained at the Ifo Institute in Munich

Web links

Carstensen on the website of the Ifo Institute

Individual evidence

^ "Kai Carstensen, head of the ifo Center for Business Cycle Research and Surveys, goes back to university research" (ifo.de on October 30, 2013)

personal data
SURNAME	Carstensen, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein

[ifo_Institut-1] "Kai Carstensen, head of the ifo Center for Business Cycle Research and Surveys, goes back to university research" (ifo.de on October 30, 2013)