Volker Wieland

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Volker Wieland (born February 3, 1966 in Aalen ) is Professor of Monetary Economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and has been a member of the Advisory Council for the assessment of macroeconomic development since March 2013 .

Life

Wieland studied economics up to his intermediate diploma at the University of Würzburg and then moved to the State University of New York at Albany , where he received a master's in economics. After participating in the Advanced Studies Program at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in the 1989/90 academic year, Wieland moved to Stanford University , where he obtained a Ph.D. in Economics. Wieland then worked for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC for five years , first as an economist and later as a senior economist.

In the winter semester of 2000, Wieland took over the professorship for monetary theory and monetary policy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. From 2003 to 2009 he was Director of the Center for Financial Studies , where he continues to be Program Director for Central Banks and Monetary Economics. In March 2012, Wieland switched to the endowed professorship for monetary economics at the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) in the House of Finance at Goethe University. Since June 2012 he has been Managing Director of the IMFS, which is financed by the Money and Currency Foundation.

research

Wieland conducts research on monetary and fiscal policy , business cycles and macroeconomic models, inflation and deflation , learning behavior and economic dynamics as well as numerical methods in macroeconomics . For some time now, Wieland has been building a public archive of macroeconomic models for comparative purposes. In 2008 Wieland was awarded the Wim Duisenberg Research Fellowship of the European Central Bank .

Public influence

Wieland has been organizing the conference series “The ECB and Its Watchers” since 2004, during which the President and Council members of the European Central Bank face critics from academia and the general public once a year and discuss current challenges for European monetary policy.

He has advised the European Central Bank, the Central Banks of Finland and Chile , the Federal Reserve Board and the European Commission . Since 2011 he has been a member of the Kronberg Circle of the economically liberal Market Economy Foundation . Since the beginning of 2012 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Finance . Since March 1, 2013, he has been a member of the Expert Council for the assessment of macroeconomic development .

In its ranking of the most influential economists in Germany, carried out for the first time in 2013, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung placed Volker Wieland in 11th place.

Positions

With a view to the euro crisis, Wieland has spoken out in favor of reforms and spending cuts instead of tax increases. He also criticizes the ECB's purchase of government bonds .

Wieland also considers the establishment of a European banking supervisory authority at the ECB to be problematic.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Macroeconomic Model Data Base"
  2. ↑ FAZ Economists Ranking 2013
  3. ↑ "A haircut alone is of little help" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung November 20, 2012
  4. ↑ "Courageously and fast" Wirtschaftswoche 28 November 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Wieland, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, professor of monetary economics
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bask