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The Members of the European Economic Advisory Group at Cesifo Authors THE MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ADVISORY GROUP AT CESIFO Giuseppe Bertola John Driffill (Ph.D., Massachusetts Insti­ (Ph.D., Princeton Univer­ tute of Technology, 1988) is sity, 1977) is a Professor of Professor of Economics at Economics at Birkbeck Col­- EDHEC Business School, lege, University of Lon don, on extended leave without and a Fellow of the Centre pay from his position at for Economic Policy Re­ Università di Torino where search. He has previously he has been Professore worked at the University of Associato (since 1993) and Southampton, Tilburg Uni­ Ordinario (since 1996) di Economia Politica. In 1997– ver sity, and Queen Mary and Westfield College, 2003 he was full­time Professor at the European University of London, and held visiting positions at University Institute; in 1989–93 he was Assistant Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada), in Stockholm, Professor and Assistant Director of the International Aarhus, Tokyo, and Paris. From 2004 to 2010 he was Finance Section, Princeton University. He has served as the Director of the UK Economic and Social Research a Managing Editor of Economic Policy (2001–08), Council’s programme on World Economy and Condirettore of Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Finance. From 2000 to 2004 he was on the Council Economia (1996–2011), and a Programme Director of and Executive Committee of the Royal Economic CEPR’s Labour Economics programme (2009–2013). Society. He has advised the House of Lords Select He has performed scientific advisory work for the Committee on the European Union (Sub­Committee European Commission, the European Central Bank, A: Economic and Financial Affairs) in enquiries into and other organizations. His research currently focuses the euro and the Stability and Growth Pact. Most of on the structural and institutional aspects of labour and his research has been on macroeconomics and mone­ financial markets, from an international comparative tary policy, and he has published in many scholarly perspective, particularly as regards their distributional journals, including the American Economic Review, impact and interaction with the European process of the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of economic and monetary unification. He has applied sim­ Monetary Economics, and the European Economic ilar methods to exchange rate and money­market poli­ Review. He has published two edited volumes, one on cies, interactions between growth and distribution, A Currency for Europe, another on The Role of households’ durable consumption and borrowing, and Financial Markets in the Transition Process, and an in­ educational systems. He has also published widely in the troductory textbook, Economics with Joseph E. Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Stiglitz (W. W. Norton and Co, 2000). Review, the European Economic Review, other academic journals and books, also authoring chapters in Handbook John Driffill of Labor Economics and Handbook of Income Birkbeck College Distribution (North­Holland), co­authoring Models for Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom Dynamic Macroeconomics (Oxford University Press) [email protected] and Income Distribution in Macroeconomic Models (Princeton University Press), and co­editing Welfare and Employment in a United Europe and The Economics of Consumer Credit (MIT Press). Giuseppe Bertola EDHEC Business School 393 promenade des Anglais, BP 3116, 06200 Nice Cedex 3, France [email protected] 99 EEAG Report 2015 Authors Harold James Hans-Werner Sinn (Ph.D. Cambridge Universi­ is Professor of Economics ty, 1982) is Claude and Lore and Public Finance at the Kelly Professor in European Uni versity of Munich Studies and a Professor of (LMU) and President of the History at Princeton Uni­ CESifo Group. He has been versity, a Professor of Inter­ a member of the Council of national Affairs in the Economic Advisors to the Woodrow Wilson School, as German Ministry of Eco­ well as an Adjunct Professor nomics since 1989 and is a at BI Norwegian Business School. He is Director of the fellow of a number of learned societies. From 1997–2000 Program in Contemporary European Politics and he was President of the German Economic Association Society and serves on the editorial committee of the (Verein für Socialpolitik) and from 2006–2009 of the journal World Politics and is Chairman of the Academic International Institute of Public Finance. He holds hon­ Council of The European Association for Banking and orary doctorates from the Universities of Magdeburg Financial History (EABH). Before coming to the (1999) and Helsinki (2011), as well as the HHL Leipzig United States in 1986, he was a Fellow of Peterhouse for (2013), and an honorary professorship from the eight years. He was awarded with the Ellen MacArthur University of Vienna. He has taught at the University of Prize for Economic History at the University of Western Ontario, and held visiting fellowships at the Cambridge in 1982, the Helmut Schmidt Prize in London School of Economics, as well as at Bergen, Economic History at the German Historical Institute in Hebrew, Oslo, Princeton and Stanford Universities. He Washington, D.C. in 2004 and the Ludwig Erhard Prize received awards from the University of Mannheim for for writing about economics in 2005. His research fo­ his dissertation and habilitation theses, and a number of cuses on European economic history, and German his­ other prizes and awards from various institutions includ­ tory in particular. He has published and co­authored ing the Corine Award (2004) for his bestseller Ist several books analysing Germany’s financial history in Deutschland noch zu retten? (Can Germany be Saved?), the interwar era, the changing character of national the Ludwig­Erhard­Prize for Economic Journalism identity in Germany and detailed studies about the (2013), and the Gustav­Schmoller­Medal (2014). He fea­ Deutsche Bundesbank. His latest book, Making the tures in the worldwide list of the Top 100 Thought European Monetary Union published by the Harvard Leaders for his work on the bazaar economy. He was University Press in 2012, deals with the role of the awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the origins Federal Republic of Germany in 2005 and the Bavarian of the European Central Bank, giving us a deeper un­ Maximilian Order in 2008. In 1999 he gave the Yrjö derstanding of the European monetary crisis by tracing Jahnsson Lectures, in 2000 the Stevenson Lectures, in the decade­long process of implementing the idea of a 2004 the Tinbergen Lectures, in 2005 the World Economy Europe­wide monetary union and common currency, Annual Lecture, in 2007 the Thünen Lecture, in 2010 the which finally morphed into the European Central Bank. D.B. Doran Lecture, in 2011 the European Economy Lecture, in 2012 the Van Lanschot and the Egon Sohmen Harold James Lectures, and in 2013 the Whitman, the Julian Hodge Princeton University and the Booth Lectures. Sinn has published in the History Department American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544­1017, USA Economics, the European Economic Review, the Journal [email protected] of Public Economics and many other journals. He has published 11 major and 17 smaller monographs in six languages including Economic Decisions under Uncer­ tainty, Capital Income Taxation and Resource Allocation, Jumpstart – The Economic Unification of Germany, The New Systems Competition, Casino Capitalism, The Green Paradox, and The Euro Trap. Hans­Werner Sinn Ifo Institute Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany [email protected] EEAG Report 2015 100 Authors Jan-Egbert Sturm Ákos Valentinyi (Ph.D. University of Gro­ (Ph.D. European Univer­ ningen, 1997) is Professor of sity Institute, 1997) is a Applied Macroeconomics, Professor of Economics at Director of the KOF Swiss Cardiff Business School, a Economic Institute at the Fellow of CEPR and a ETH Zurich, President of Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International the Institute of Economics Research on Economic Ten­ of the Hungarian Academy dency Surveys (CIRET) and of Sciences. He was previ­ Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy. He ously Professor at the University of Southampton and was a researcher at the University of Groningen, The Head of Research at the National Bank of Hungary. Netherlands, until 2001, and taught as Visiting Professor He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Central at the School of Business, Bond University, Gold Coast, European University in Budapest and Universidad Australia, in 2000 and 2005. As Head of the Department Carlos III in Madrid. His research focuses on macro­ for Economic Forecasting and Financial Markets at the economics, economic growth, productivity differences Ifo Institute for Economic Research, he was also and structural change. He has published in leading in­ Professor of Economics at the University of Munich ternational journals including the American Economic (LMU) at the Center for Economic Studies (CES), Review, Review of Economic Studies, the Review of 2001–2003. He held the Chair of Monetary Economics Economic Dynamics, and the Journal of the European in Open Economies at the University of Konstanz, Economic Association. Germany, which was coupled with the position of Director of the Thurgau Institute of Economics (TWI) Ákos Valentinyi in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, 2003–2005. In his research, Cardiff Business School Jan­Egbert Sturm relies heavily on empirical methods Aberconway Building and statistics, concentrating on monetary economics, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU, United Kingdom macroeconomics as well as political economy. His ap­ [email protected] plied studies have focused on, for example, economic growth and central bank policy. He has published sev­ eral books, contributed articles to various anthologies and international journals including the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the European Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Development Economics, the Oxford Economic Papers, Public Choice, and the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
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