Sebastian Dullien

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Sebastian Dullien (* 1975 ) is a German economist and has been the Scientific Director of the Institute for Macroeconomics and Business Cycle Research (IMK) since April 1, 2019 . He is also a professor at the Berlin University of Technology and Economics and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC.

Life

Sebastian Dullien studied from 1994 to 2000 in Bochum, Paris and Berlin. In 2004 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin on the subject of "Interaction of Monetary Policy and Wage Bargaining in the EMU".

From 2000 to 2007 he worked for the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD), initially as an editor for leading articles and later as an editor for business and global economy. He interrupted his time at the FTD several times for stays as a visiting scholar at various institutions: at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) in 2004, at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, as well at the Science and Politics Foundation 2007.

In autumn 2007 he was appointed to a professorship for general economics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences with a focus on international economics.

Sebastian Dullien has spoken out on a number of economic policy issues in recent years, including the euro crisis, banking regulation and the transatlantic trade agreement TTIP . He also made repeated comments on the role of business journalists in the economic policy decision-making process.

In the debate about more pluralism in economics, he sided with the protesting students and supported the demand for a variety of paradigms and interdisciplinarity.

Dullien is a member of the scientific advisory board of the economic policy journal Wirtschaftsdienst .

Scientific work

Sebastian Dullien deals in his academic work with questions of applied economic policy, imbalances within the European monetary union, European integration, international currency and financial issues as well as development economics.

An often quoted suggestion by Sebastian Dullien is that of a European unemployment insurance scheme. Dullien published a study on this topic for the first time in 2008 and wrote several expert reports for the European Commission in the course of the euro crisis .

Journalistic work

Sebastian Dullien writes irregularly for various German media. His contributions have appeared in Capital , Die Zeit , Zeit Online , Spiegel Online , taz , Handelsblatt and Berliner Zeitung , among others . He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Economic Service.

In his book Der gute Kapitalismus , published in 2009 (together with Hansjörg Herr and Christian Kellermann; foreword by Gesine Schwan ) he took the position that good capitalism is possible if it is only adequately “put on a leash”. The book was discussed extensively and positively in the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Zeit and the Süddeutsche Zeitung , among others . The book was published in a revised version in 2011 under the title Decent Capitalism in English and has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Persian and Indonesian, among others.

Selected publications

  • Decent Capitalism - A blueprint for reforming our economies, Pluto Press, 2011 (with Hansjörg Herr and Christian Kellermann).
  • Reorganization of the financial markets: Excessive trust in market rationality persists , in: Wirtschaftsdienst, 93rd year (2013), special issue, pp. 23–19.
  • Good capitalism ... and what would have to change after the crisis, Transcript, 2009 (with Hansjörg Herr and Christian Kellermann).
  • Deregulation in the public debate in Germany, IMK Studies 2/2009, ISSN  1861-2180 (with Christiane von Hardenberg).
  • Bringing Macroeconomics into the EU Budget Debate: Why and How ?, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 47 (1), 2009, pp. 153-174 (with Daniela Schwarzer).
  • The Interaction of Monetary Policy and Wage Bargaining in the European Monetary Union - Lessons from the Endogenous Money Approach, Macmillan Palgrave, Houndsmill et al., 2004.
  • Effects of the European Monetary Union on the German Economy, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1999. (With Gustav-Adolf Horn.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Economic policy reporting in Germany - a case of market failure, in: Harald Hagemann, Gustav Horn, Hans-Jürgen Krupp (eds.): From a macroeconomic perspective - Festschrift for Jürgen Kromphardt, Schriften der Keynes-Gesellschaft, Volume 1, 2008, p. 225-244.
  2. Sebastian Dullien: Listen to the students. SZ, accessed January 20, 2017 .
  3. Sebastian Dullien: Unemployment Insurance for the Eurozone. SWP, accessed March 31, 2016 .
  4. ^ Sebastian Dullien: A European unemployment insurance as a stabilization device - Selected issues. European Commission, accessed March 31, 2016 .
  5. For example: Euro crisis: Germany is suppressing the crisis. July 9, 2014 . ;or refugees: we can afford that. November 3, 2015, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  6. Sebastian Dullien: All columns up. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  7. Robert von Heusinger: Read What ?: Voila, the Post-Keynesians. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. November 28, 2009, archived from the original on April 22, 2012 ; accessed on March 7, 2019 .