
Vaccination Tales
Update, February 13, 2021: The first incoming data from Israel show that infections among the
Since April 2014 I am Professor for Public Finance and Macroeconomic Dynamics at Goethe University, Frankfurt. During the academic year 2019-20 I was visiting professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
I am member as well as co-founder of the Frankfurt Quantitative Macro Group (FQMG) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). I am also member of the executive board of ICIR and affiliated with the following institutions: SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt; CMR, University of Cologne; MEA, Munich; Netspar and ZEW, University of Mannheim. I participated in the DFG priority program 1578 on Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance and since March 2018 I am project leader of the Norface DIAL project Trends in Inequality: Sources and Policy. I am Editorial Board Member at the Journal of Pension Economics & Finance and at the Journal of Demographic Economics. My research interests are in the fields of dynamic macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents, public finance, demographic and computational economics.
Update, February 13, 2021: The first incoming data from Israel show that infections among the
Update, February 16, 2021 The February 13 Economist’s headline article brings it to the point:
There are numerous instances in the pandemic where, in my view, emerging trade-offs are inappropriately