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

This publication proposes six reforms to improve the Eurozone’s financial stability, political cohesion, and potential for delivering prosperity.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Nicolas Véron, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Hélène Rey, Philippe Martin, Marcel Fratzscher, Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Isabel Schnabel, Markus Brunnermeier, Clemens Fuest, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
public debt fiscal policy financial regulation european monetary union euro area eu governance capital markets banking union
Opinion piece

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 so

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Nicolas Véron, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Hélène Rey, Philippe Martin, Marcel Fratzscher, Isabel Schnabel, Markus Brunnermeier, Lars Feld, Clemens Fuest, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
European single market european central bank euro area eu governance

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17 January 2018

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

This publication proposes six reforms to improve the Eurozone’s financial stability, political cohesion, and potential for delivering prosperity.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Nicolas Véron, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Hélène Rey, Philippe Martin, Marcel Fratzscher, Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Isabel Schnabel, Markus Brunnermeier, Clemens Fuest, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

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01 February 2017

State Aid and Tax Rulings

When do national tax rulings violate EU state aid rules? Does the European Commission's approach raise concerns about Member State Sovereignity and wh