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President

Prof. Dr. Moritz Schularick

President

Prof. Dr. Moritz Schularick

Research Center

Moritz Schularick is president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy since June 2023 and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris). His research includes financial markets and asset prices, issues in monetary macroeconomics, and the causes of financial crises and economic inequality.

Prior to his appointment in Kiel, Moritz Schularick was Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Bonn, Director of the MacroFinance Lab there. He is also a Fellow of the DFG-Excellence Cluster ECONtribute and a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Academia Europea. Previously, he conducted research at New York University, the University of Cambridge, Freie Universität Berlin, and in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among others.

He is a recipient of the 2022 Leibniz Prize, Germany's most prestigious research prize, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2018, he received the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the most prestigious award given to German economists. He is editor of the most important European journal for economic policy, "Economic Policy."

He regularly advises central banks, ministries of finance, investors, and international organizations.

Topics

Monetary PolicyEconomic & Financial CrisesFinancial MarketsGlobalization

Main research interests

  • Economic History
  • Political Economy
  • Macrofinance
  • International Finance
  • Banking and Financial Stability

Contact

+49 (431) 8814-324

Moritz Schularick is president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy since June 2023 and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris). His research includes financial markets and asset prices, issues in monetary macroeconomics, and the causes of financial crises and economic inequality.

Prior to his appointment in Kiel, Moritz Schularick was Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Bonn, Director of the MacroFinance Lab there. He is also a Fellow of the DFG-Excellence Cluster ECONtribute and a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Academia Europea. Previously, he conducted research at New York University, the University of Cambridge, Freie Universität Berlin, and in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among others.

He is a recipient of the 2022 Leibniz Prize, Germany's most prestigious research prize, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2018, he received the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the most prestigious award given to German economists. He is editor of the most important European journal for economic policy, "Economic Policy."

He regularly advises central banks, ministries of finance, investors, and international organizations.

  • Project

    16.04.2024

    ODA in the Mutual Interest of Donors and Recipients

    Providing solid evidence for public debate and political decision-making: How official development assistance (ODA) can simultaneously serve donor…

  • Project

    01.01.2023

    Democratic fiscal policy in transformational times

    We want to analyze the conditions and challenges of public finances from a historical, legal and economic perspective in order to develop sustainable…

  • News

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    17.12.2025

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  • News

    06.11.2025

    GREIX Q3 2025 – market activity nears boom levels

Upcoming Events

Past Events

  • 11 Jul

    2025

    Briefing

    China’s Economic Trajectory: Unpacking Macro Trends and Structural Reforms

    Online

  • 20 Jun

    2025

    Report Launch

    Fit for war by 2030? European rearmament efforts vis-a-vis Russia: rising but lagging in numbers and technologies

    Online

  • 22 – 24 May

    2025

    Verein für Socialpolitik

    Annual Meeting 2025 - Standing Field Committee in International Economics

    Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft

In the News

Research Center & Groups

  • Research Center

    Macroeconomics

  • Research Group

    Mann mit Brille

    Macrofinance