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The Faculty of Economics and Business at Goethe University owes its existence and identity to the link forged between business and academia. In 1901, the Academy for Social Science and Commerce was established by Wilhelm Merton, founder of the renowned German industrial organization Metallgesellschaft, as the commercial college for the city of Frankfurt. This college, the first faculty for economics and business administration of its kind in Germany, formed the nucleus of the Goethe University, established in 1914 by the citizens of Frankfurt. It was during this time that those features characteristic of the study of economics in Frankfurt emerged: a focus on theoretical analysis, the close connection between the disciplines of economics and business administration and the open approach towards a broad spectrum of theoretical, practical and policy-oriented issues. Today, the faculty is considered one of the most attractive economics and business administration faculties in Germany. This view is shared not only by the more than 5700 students enrolled, but also by the numerous national and international companies that regularly recruit our graduates. It was here that Ludwig Erhard wrote his doctorate, Erich Gutenberg lectured and Reinhard Selten, Germany’s first Nobel Laureate in Economics, received his certificate of Habilitation.

Principal Investigator

Alexander Ludwig

Professor for Public Finance and Macroeconomic Dynamics at Goethe University, Frankfurt and part-time visiting professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is spokesperson of DFG research unit on Macroeconomic Implications of Intra-Household Decision Making and principal investigator in EU Horizon 2022 project SUSTAINWELL – Sustainable Welfare: Rethinking the roles of Family, Market and State. 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).  He is also director of ICIR and affiliated with the following institutions: SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt; CMR, University of Cologne; MEA, Munich; Netspar and ZEW, University of Mannheim. Until 2021 he participated in the DFG priority program 1578 on Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance and was project leader of the Norface DIAL project “Trends in Inequality: Sources and Policy”.  He is editorial Board Member at the Journal of Pension Economics & Finance and at the Journal of Demographic Economics. His research interests are in the fields of dynamic macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents, public finance, demographic and computational economics.

Team

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