Volker Wieland

Short Bio:

Volker Wieland is Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy in the House of Finance at Goethe University of Frankfurt. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Wuerzburg, the State University of New York at Albany, the Institute for the World Economy in Kiel and Stanford University. In 1995 he received a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford. He was awarded the Wim Duisenberg Research Fellowship by the European Central Bank for the academic year of 2008/09. He is also a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, a member of the CEPR's Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee, External Research Director of the Institute for the World Economy in Kiel and Program Director for Central Banking and Monetary Economics at the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt. From April 2003 until April 2009 he served as Director of the Center for Financial Studies.

Before joining the Frankfurt faculty in November 2000 Volker Wieland was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Stanford Center for International Development, a visiting researcher at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University and the Center for European Integration at the University of Bonn, a consultant at the European Central Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Business School.

He has served as Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control from 2002 to 2006 and is currently a member of the JEDC Advisory Board.. He has also served on the Advisory Council of the Society for Computational Economics from 1998 to 2006 as an Associate Editor of the European Economic Review (2001 to 2004) and as a Member of the Referee Panel of Economic Policy (2004 - 2006).

Wieland's research interests include monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles and macroeconomic models, inflation and deflation, learning and economic dynamics as well as numerical methods in macroeconomics. His research has been published in leading economic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the European Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

He also participates actively in the public debate on topics in the area of central banking, fiscal policy, inflation and business cycles. His research and his assessments have been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Zeit, Handelsblatt and other English and German media.