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The Members of the European Economic Advisory Group AUTHORS THE MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ADVISORY GROUP Torben M. Andersen Giuseppe Bertola (Ph.D., CORE, Université Catholique, (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1986) is Technology, 1988) is Professor of Professor of Economics at Aarhus Political Economy at the University University, Denmark and a Fellow of of Turin (Associato since 1993 and CESifo, Centre for Economic Policy Ordinario since 1996). He was on Research and IZA. He has served as leave in 2011–15 as Professor of department head and member of Economics at EDHEC Business various university committees. He has had various School and in 1997–2003 as full-time Professor at the short-term visiting positions at other universities, European University Institute. In 1989–93 he was served as editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Economics (1991–1997), and as member of several edi- International Finance Section, Princeton University. He torial boards. He has been extensively involved in policy has served as a Managing Editor of Economic Policy advice in Denmark and abroad. In Denmark among oth- (2001–2008), Condirettore of Giornale degli Economisti e er as chairman of the Economic Council (1993–1996 and Annali di Economia (1996–2011), and a Programme 2001–2003), the Welfare Commission (2003–2006), and Director of CEPR’s Labour Economics programme the Pension Commission (2014–2015) and as member of (2009–2013). He has performed scientific advisory work the Systemic Risk Council (since 2013). Abroad his advi- for the European Commission, the European Central sory activities include the EU Commission, member of Bank, and other organizations. His research currently the Fiscal Policy Council in Sweden (2007–2011), focuses on the structural and institutional aspects of la- Economic Policy Council Finland (since 2014) and chair- bour and financial markets, from an international com- man of the Economic Council, Greenland (since 2012), parative perspective, particularly as regards their distri- and commission on Migration in Norway (2009–2011). butional impact and interaction with the European Most of his research has been on macroeconomics, la- process of economic and monetary unification. He has bour economics and the economics of the welfare state. applied similar methods to exchange rate and mon- He has published in many scholarly journals, including ey-market policies, interactions between growth and the Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, distribution, households’ durable consumption and Journal of International Economics, Economic Theory, borrowing, and educational systems. He has also pub- and European Economic Review. He has published sever- lished widely in the Review of Economic Studies, the al books and edited volumes, most recently Reform American Economic Review, the European Economic Capacity and Macroeconomic Performance in the Nordic Review, other academic journals and books, also au- Countries, edited with U. Michael Bergman and Svend E. thoring chapters in Handbook of Labor Economics and Hougaard Jesen, Oxford University Press, 2015. Handbook of Income Distribution (North-Holland), co-authoring Models for Dynamic Macroeconomics Address: (Oxford University Press) and Income Distribution in Torben M. Andersen Macroeconomic Models (Princeton University Press), Aarhus University and co-editing Welfare and Employment in a United Department of Economics and Business Economics Europe and The Economics of Consumer Credit (MIT Fuglesangs Allé 4, building 2621, 2 Press). 8210 Aarhus V Denmark Address: [email protected] Giuseppe Bertola University of Turin Department of Economics and Statistics Lungo Dora Siena 100 10153 Turin Italy [email protected] EEAG Report 2020 107 AUTHORS Clemens Fuest Cecilia García-Peñalosa (Ph.D., University of Cologne, 1994) (Ph.D., Oxford University, 1995) is born in 1968, is President of the Professor of Economics at the ifo Institute, Professor of Economics Centre National de la Recherche and Public Finance at the Ludwig- Scientifique and at the Aix-Marseille Maximilians-University of Munich, School of Eco nomics. Furthermore, Director of the Center for Economic since 2017 she has held the chair on Studies (CES), Executive Director of Gender, Growth and Development CESifo GmbH and Speaker of EconPol Europe – the Euro- at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, pean network for economic and fiscal policy research. and she is a Fellow of CESifo and the Centre for Since 2003 Clemens Fuest is a member of the Academic Economic Policy Research. She has held positions at the Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University Finance (head of the board from 2007 to 2010). He is a of Oxford, has been a council member of the Society for member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts the Study of Economic Inequality and associate editor and of the German National Academy of Science and of the European Economic Review, and is currently as- Engineering (acatech). Furthermore, Clemens Fuest is sociate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. Board Member of the International Institute for Public Policy work includes scientific advisory work for the Finance (IIPF; Vice President since 2014) and a member European Commission and the World Bank, among oth- of the Minimum Wage Committee of the Federal ers, and four years as a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Republic of Germany and of the "High Level Group on Economique, an independent advisory group that re- Own Resources" (Monti-Commission) of the European ports to the French Prime Minister. Union. In 2013 he received the Gustav Stolper Prize of Her research has focused mainly on long-term growth the Verein für Socialpolitik (Social Policies Society - VfS). and income inequality. To what extent is inequality nec- He was awarded an honorary doctorate of the Karlsruhe essary for an economy to grow? Does growth automati- Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2017. cally lead to less inequality? Are countries where output His research areas are economic and fiscal policy, taxa- is more volatile also more unequal? Her recent work fo- tion, and European integration. Before he was appoint- cuses on the factors that determine gender inequality in ed Ifo President in April 2016, Clemens Fuest was labor markets. Cecilia García-Peñalosa has published in President of the Centre for European Economic many scholarly journals, among them the Journal of Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and Professor of Economic Growth, Journal of Public Economics, Eco- Economics at the University of Mannheim. From 2008 to nomic Journal, and the European Economic Review, 2013 he was Professor of Business Taxation and and co-edited the volume Institutions, Development, Research Director of the Centre for Business Taxation at and Economic Growth, MIT Press CESifo Seminar Series. the University of Oxford. He taught as a Visiting Her work has been featured in the press, including The Professor at the Bocconi University in Milan in 2004. Economist, and she contributes regularly to public de- From 2001 to 2008 he was Professor for Public bate in France, through interventions in the radio or Economics at the University of Cologne. newspapers such as Le Monde. Clemens Fuest has published widely in German and in- ternational academic journals including American Address: Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Cecilia García-Peñalosa Public Economics, Journal of International Economics, Aix-Marseille School of Economics National Tax Journal, International Tax and Public Aix-Marseille Université Finance and International Economic Review. He has pub- 5 Bd Maurice Bourdet lished a number of books and contributes to public de- 13205 Marseille bates on economic and fiscal policy through articles in France renowned newspapers including Handelsblatt, Frankfur- [email protected] ter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wirtschafts Woche, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Address: Clemens Fuest ifo Institute Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich Germany [email protected] 108 EEAG Report 2020 AUTHORS Harold James Jan-Egbert Sturm (Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1982) (Ph.D., University of Groningen, is Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in 1997) is Professor of Applied Mac- European Studies and a Professor roeconomics, Director of the KOF of History at Princeton University, a Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Professor of International Affairs in Zurich, President of the Centre for the Woodrow Wilson School, as well International Research on Eco- as an Adjunct Professor at BI nomic Tendency Surveys (CIRET) Norwegian Business School, and the official historian of and Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy. the International Monetary Fund. He is Director of the He was a researcher at the University of Groningen, The Program in Contemporary European Politics and Netherlands, until 2001, and taught as Visiting Professor Society and serves on the editorial committee of the at the School of Business, Bond University, Gold Coast, journal World Politics and is Chairman of the Academic Australia, in 2000 and 2005. As Head of the Department Council of The European Association for Banking and for Economic Forecasting and Financial Markets at the Financial History (EABH). Before coming to the United Ifo Institute for Economic Research, he was also States in 1986, he was a Fellow of Peterhouse for eight Professor of Economics at the University of Munich years. He was
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