Michael Funke

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Michael Funke (born March 10, 1956 ) is a German economist . He is Professor of Macroeconomics and Quantitative Economic Policy at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Funke studied economics . After graduating, he worked from 1982 to 1985 as a research assistant at the Faculty of Economics at the Free University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1984 with the dissertation Growth Cycles and Functional Income Distribution. He was then a DAAD fellow visiting fellow at the Institute of Economics and Statistics and at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford . From 1985 to 1993 he conducted research at the Berlin Social Science Center . He completed his habilitation with the thesis Tobin's Q and industry investment in West Germany in Berlin and received the Venia legendi for economics in 1990 .

In 1993 he went to the Center for Economic Forecasting at the London Business School as a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) . In 1994/95 he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin as a private lecturer in economics . He was then visiting researcher and consultant at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC From 2002 to 2013 he was a Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research and the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Institute for Economies in Transition of Suomen Pankki in Helsinki, Finland. In addition, from 2002 to 2003 he was an endowed professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank with a focus on monetary theory and monetary policy at the Free University of Berlin. In 2011 he received a visiting professorship at Hong Kong Baptist University .

In 2005, Funke became Professor of Macroeconomics and Quantitative Economic Policy at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg . From 2012 to 2014 he headed the Department of Economics.

He is a member of the Association for Social Policy and is active there in various economic committees ( econometrics and monetary theory and policy ). a. from 2010 to 2014 as Chairman of the Macroeconomic Committee. In 1994 he became a Research Fellow at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research (Ifo) in Munich. Since 2005 he has also been a member of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN). Funke is the author of numerous specialist articles and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and Associate Editor of Economic Modeling .

In 2005 he was one of the initiators of the Hamburg appeal .

Funke is one of 172 economics professors who signed the economists' open letter on the euro crisis in July 2012 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Growth cycles and functional income distribution (= Economic Research and Development , Volume 12). Florentz, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-88259-319-9 .
  • ed .: Factors in Business Investment. Papers of a Conference, held at the Science Center, Berlin, Research Area "Labor Market and Employment", September 1987 (= Microeconomic studies ). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-540-50527-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Call for protest. The full text of the economists' open letter. In: FAZ.NET. Current. Economy. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, July 5, 2012, accessed on November 27, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Spark, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1956