Lennard Welslau
Lennard is a Research Assistant at Bruegel. His research interests lie in the fields of macroeconomics, international economics, and applied econometrics. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics in Freiburg and Buenos Aires and holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen. In his thesis, he used a small open economy heterogeneous agent New Keynesian (HANK) model to investigate the role of wage flexibility in countries facing external demand and interest rate shocks.
Prior to joining Bruegel, he worked as a trainee with the European Central Bank, held research assistant positions at the Walter Eucken Institute and the Copenhagen Business School, and contributed to the work of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as a research consultant, working on empirical trade modelling.
Lennard is a native German speaker and is fluent in English and Spanish.
Featured work
Inflation inequality in the European Union and its drivers
First lessons from the Recovery and Resilience Facility for the EU economic governance framework
This study draws out lessons for the future of the EU economic governance framework from certain aspects of the RRF design.
European Union countries’ recovery and resilience plans
Is Europe failing on import diversification?
Despite a goal of economic self-reliance, the European Union’s imports are generally sourced from an increasingly limited set of suppliers.