Peter Bofinger is Professor for Monetary Policy and International Economics at the University of Wuerzburg, member of the German Council of Economic Experts and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, (CEPR) London. He received his doctoral level at Saarland University. Previously he was economist at the Bundesbank, visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and at the IMF, and professor at the Universities of Kaiserslautern and Konstanz. He is author of textbooks on macroeconomics and monetary economics (Monetary Policy: Goals, Institutions, Strategies, and Instruments) as well as general interest books on economic issues.
Most economists will agree that the future of money will be more digital than today. But while everybody speaks of ‘digitalisation’, the concrete meaning of this term remains very often u...
Given the secular rise in income inequality, economists increasingly worry about its macroeconomic implications. A link between inequality and saving lies at the heart of these considerat...
The attempt to formulate a consensus view of the EZ Crisis is difficult. Not only is there dissent on the role of wage developments in the individual member states (Storm 2016), but also ...
