External speakers

Clemens Fuest

President and Director, CESifo Group Munich

Since April 2016 President, Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Since April 2016 Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES)
Since April 2016 Professor for Economics and Public Finance at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Since April 2016 Executive Director of CESifo GmbH
2013 - 2016 President and CEO of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim and Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim
2008 - 2013 Professor of Business Taxation and Research Director, Centre for Business Taxation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
2001 - 2008 Professor, Chair of Public Economics, University of Cologne
1995 - 2001 Senior Research Assistant, Chair of Public Economics, University of Munich
1991 - 1995 Research Assistant, Chair of Economic Policy, University of Cologne

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Policy Contribution

Financing the European Union: New Context, New Responses

With the European Union for the first time taking on debt to help finance the economic recovery from the coronavirus, new resources are needed to fund the EU budget. Various ideas have been floated – including a digital tax and a financial transactions tax – but the most appropriate new resource would be revenues from the EU emissions trading system, which could provide enough funding to repay the EU's coronavirus borrowing.

By: Clemens Fuest, Jean Pisani-Ferry and alihan Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: September 11, 2020
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External Publication

A Primer on Developing European Public Goods: A report to Ministers Bruno Le Maire and Olaf Scholz

This report was prepared for the French and German Ministers of Finance.

By: Jean Pisani-Ferry and Clemens Fuest Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: November 8, 2019
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External Publication

Reconciling risk sharing with market discipline: A constructive approach to euro area reform

This publication, written by a group of independent French and German economists, proposes six reforms which, if delivered as a package, would improve the Eurozone’s financial stability, political cohesion, and potential for delivering prosperity to its citizens, all while addressing the priorities and concerns of participating countries.

By: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi, Marcel Fratzscher, Clemens Fuest, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Philippe Martin, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Hélène Rey, Isabel Schnabel, Nicolas Véron, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: January 17, 2018
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Opinion

A resilient Euro needs Franco-German compromise

In a piece signed by 15 leading French and German economists, Nicolas Véron lays out a path to a more sustainable Euro. Germany will need to accept some form of risk sharing. France will need to allow more market discipline. But the two countries can find a common vision for reforms

By: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Lars Feld, Philippe Martin, Hélène Rey, Isabel Schnabel, Nicolas Véron, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi, Clemens Fuest, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Marcel Fratzscher Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: September 27, 2017
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Policy Contribution

Making the best of the European single market

Now more than ever, the EU needs to address concerns about the significant decline in productivity growth and the increasing perception of unfairness. Completing the single market would unlock the EU's growth potential. At the same time, the EU should empower member states to fight inequality by helping them better distribute the gains arising from economic integration.

By: Vincent Aussilloux, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Clemens Fuest, Guntram B. Wolff and Bruegel Topic: Macroeconomic policy Date: February 2, 2017