Economic Outlook: How The Pandemic Has Changed The Face Of Europe
Speakers
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Veronika Grimm has been full professor of economics and Head of the Chair of Economic Theory at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) since 2008. She is Head of the research unit “Energy Market Design” Energie Campus Nürnberg (EnCN), member of the Executive Board of Zentrum Wasserstoff.Bayern (H2.B) and Director of the Laboratory for Experimental Research Nuremberg (LERN). Previously she had worked at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Alicante and the University of Cologne and spent long research visits at the Univesité Libre de Bruxelles and the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Since 2020 Veronika Grimm has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. In addition, she is active in numerous committees and advisory boards, including the German Federal Government's National Hydrogen Council, the Expert Commission on the "Energy of the Future" monitoring process at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), the Future Circle of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Advisory Council on Consumer Affairs (BMJV) and the Energy Steering Panel of the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC).
Her research focuses on energy markets and energy market modelling, behavioural economics, social networks, auctions and market design. She has published widely in leading academic journals, including the Economic Journal, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the European Economic Association and the Journal of Economic Theory.
© Prof DR. Veronika Grimm im Statistisches Bundesamt in Wiesbaden.
Beata Javorcik is Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. She is on leave from the University of Oxford, where she is the first woman to hold a Statutory Professorship in Economics. She is also a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and the Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee at ifo Institute, University of Munich, as well as of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague. Before taking up her position at Oxford, she worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, where she focused on research, lending operations and policy advice. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale and a B.A. in Economics (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Rochester.
Malte Fischer studied economics at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He then worked as a researcher in the business cycle research department at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. During this time he was involved in the reports of the economic research institutes on behalf of the German government. In his research he focused on the determinants of German foreign trade. He then switched to business journalism, first as an editor at the business news agency VWD, and from 1998 as editor of WirtschaftsWoche. In his work Malte Fischer focuses on the business cycle, monetary policy, macroeconomics and economic science. Since 2010 he is chief economist at WirtschaftsWoche.