Nationality German Name Marcel Fratzscher | Role Economist | |
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Born January 25, 1971 (age 53) ( 1971-01-25 ) Bonn, Northrhine-Westphalia Institution European Central Bank
Goethe University Frankfurt Alma mater European University Institute
Harvard University
University of Oxford Influences Barry Eichengreen
Axel A. Weber Books Forecasting ECB Monetary Policy: Accuracy Is (Still) a Matter of Geography Education EUI, University of Oxford, Harvard University Fields International Economics, Macroeconomics Influenced by Barry Eichengreen, Axel A. Weber | ||
Im dialog alfred schier mit marcel fratzscher am 02 05 2015
Marcel Fratzscher (born January 25, 1971) is a German economist and professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Since February 2013 he is president of the Berlin-based economic research institute DIW Berlin. He was previously head of International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank. He also teaches International Finance in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt. According to a ranking in Handelsblatt, Fratzscher is one of the most influential German-speaking economists.
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- Im dialog alfred schier mit marcel fratzscher am 02 05 2015
- Rede von prof marcel fratzscher ph d vorsitzender der expertenkommission
- Education
- Career
- Other activities
- References
Rede von prof marcel fratzscher ph d vorsitzender der expertenkommission
Education
Fratzscher holds a Vordiplom degree from the University of Kiel, a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the Trinity College, Oxford, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. During the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Fratzscher coincidentally worked at the Harvard Center for International Development in Jakarta, Indonesia giving him a close up view of a country affected by the crisis.
Career
His field of interests include macroeconomics and monetary economics, in particular the economic effects of central bank announcements.
In 2013, Fratzscher was named member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology. Later that year, he joined Henrik Enderlein, Clemens Fuest, Jakob von Weizsäcker and others in founding the Glienicker Gruppe, a group of pro-European lawyers, economists and political scientists.