Wim Kösters

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Wim Kösters (born November 26, 1942 in Greven ) is a German economist .

Wim Kösters studied economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. As a postgraduate, he spent the 1968 academic year at Harvard University . After accepting a position at the Westphalian Wilhelms University, he was Professor of Monetary Theory and Theoretical Economics (Jean Monnet Chair) at the Ruhr University in Bochum until his retirement . He held the position of Dean of the Faculty from 1999 to 2001. In addition, he was Vice President of the Rhine-Westphalian Institute for Economic Research (RWI) in Essen.

In research and teaching, he devoted himself particularly to the formation of expectations and their significance for monetary theory and the economy. One of his best-known former employees was Ansgar Belke (1965–2020), who worked at DIW Berlin.

Kösters was one of the signatories of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992).

Publications (selection)

Kösters published numerous articles and several monographs, including

  • W. Kösters, CM Schmidt: Causes of the financial market crisis: who failed? (= RWI positions. 27). RWI, Essen 2008.
  • W. Kösters, CM Schmidt, T. Schmidt, T. Zimmermann: For a stability-oriented monetary policy. (= RWI positions. 25). RWI, Essen 2008.
  • W. Kösters: How stable is the European Monetary Union? (= RWI positions. 17). RWI, Essen 2007.
  • A. Belke, W. Kösters, M. Leschke, T. Polleit: Liqudidity on the rise - too much money too few goods . 6. ECB, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • W. Kösters, S. Paul, S. Stein: An economic analysis of the EU Commission's proposal for a new Consumer Credit Directive - Offering consumers more protection or restricting their options? (= RWI materials. 9). RWI, Essen 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ rwi-essen.de
personal data
SURNAME Kösters, Wim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Greven