CURRICULUM VITAE Peter Bofinger Address: Office: Department of Economics University of Würzburg Sanderring 2 97070 Würzburg Germany Tel.: +49-931/312944 Fax: +49-931/312775 e-mail: peter.bofinger@uni-wuerzburg.de internet: www.monetary-policy.net Date and Place of Birth: Citizenship: Education: Fields of Interest: Languages: 18 September 1954, Pforzheim, Germany German Primary School Pforzheim Hebel-Gymnasium Pforzheim (high school) University of Saarbrücken Monetary Policy and Theory, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy, European Monetary Integration English, French, Latin (latinum magnum) Academic qualifications: 1978 Diplom-Volkswirt, University Saarbrücken 1984 Dr.rer.pol, University Saarbrücken 1990 Habilitation and venia legendi in economics, University Saarbrücken Present positions Since August 1992 Since March 2004 Full Professor of Economics, Money and International Economic Relations (C4 chair) at University of Würzburg Member of the German Council of Economic Experts (Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung). First term: 2004-2009. Second term: 2009-2014. Third term: 2014-2019
Previous full time positions: 1978-1981 Economist, Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung (German Council of Economic Experts), Wiesbaden 1981-1984 Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of Law and Economics, University of Saarbrücken 1984-1990 Economist (Bundesbankoberrat), Deutsche Bundesbank (Landeszentralbank in Baden- Württemberg, Stuttgart) 1990/91 Visiting Professor (C3), University of Kaiserslautern 1991 Visiting Professor (C4), University of Konstanz 1991/92 Visiting Professor (C4), University of Würzburg Other positions: 1987 Visitor, International Monetary Fund 1990 Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 1991 Visiting Scholar, Research Department, International Monetary Fund 2003-2004 Vice-President University of Würzburg Memberships: Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Research, London Commission Economique de la Nation at the French Ministers of Finance and Economics Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Geldtheorie und Geldpolitik Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Council on the Euro Zone Crisis Scientific Board of Progressive Economy International Advisory Board of ELIAMAP European Council of Foreign Relations Senior Fellow of the LUISS School of Political Economy, Rome 2
Other activities: 1991/92 Consultant in the PHARE-Programme of the EC-Commission 1991/92 Consultant for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Financial Market Liberalization in Korea) March 1992 Co-Organizer of the CEPR Conference "The Economic Consequences of the East" in Frankfurt (with Rüdiger Dornbusch) 1992 Organizer of the Conference "Was kommt nach der D-Mark?" in Frankfurt 1993 Consultant of the German Ministry of Economics on "Monetary Issues in the FSU" June 1993 September 1993 Co-Organizer of the CEPR Conference "The Economics of New Currencies" in Frankfurt (with Richard Portes) Seminar for the Central Bank of Uzbekistan on Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy 1993-1999 Member of a DIW-Advisory Group to the Government of Kazachstan June 1995 Co-Organizer of the CEPR-Conference What Monetary policy for the ECB? (With Richard Portes) 1996 Consultant of the Association of German Savings Banks (Report on Stabilitätskultur ) 1996-2000 Member of the Senate, Universität Würzburg October 1996 August 1997 August 1997 October 1997 - September 1999 Seminar for the Chinese Academy of Science on Monetary Policy in Beijing Offer ( Ruf ) of a Chair of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, turned down Organizer of a Manifesto of 59 German Professors in Favour of the Euro Dean of the Economics Faculty, University of Würzburg 1999-2005 Member of the Panel of Experts of the European Parliament on the ECB 2000-2003 Member of the Budgetary Commission (Haushaltskommission), Universität Würzburg 3
January 2003 Co-Organizer of a CEPR/Deutsche Bank Conference on Managed Floating February 2003 Co-Organizer of the Workshop Economics meets Psychology hosted by Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main 2003-2004 Member of French-German Group of Economic Experts, headed by Klaus F. Zimmermann, DIW, Berlin October 2003 September 2004 First Vice President of the University Würzburg July 2004 Co-Organizer of the 2 nd Workshop Economics meets Psychology hosted by Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main 2006 Report for the Minister of Economics of the State of Saxony on a model for negative income tax 2007 Report for the Minister of Economics of the State of Saxony on a model for negative income tax 2013 Report for the Minister of the Environment of the State of Baden-Württemberg on Renewable Energies 2015 Report for the Minister of the Environment of the State of Baden-Württemberg on Auction Models in Renewable Energies Books: Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre. Eine Einführung in die Wissenschaft von Märkten, 4. Aufl., Pearson Studium, München 2015. Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre Das Übungsbuch: Eine Einführung in die Wissenschaft von Märkten (mit Dr. Eric Mayer), 3. Aufl., Pearson Studium, München 2015. Zurück zur D-Mark? Deutschland braucht den Euro. Droemr-Knaur Verlag, München 2012. Also in Greek language. Ist der Markt noch zu retten? Warum wir jetzt einen starken Staat brauchen, Econ-Verlag, Berlin, 2009. Zukunftsfähige Finanzpolitik: Voraussetzungen einer aufgabenadäquaten Finanzausstattung der Länder (mit Thomas Lenk und Hans-Peter Schneider), BWV, Berlin 2008. Wir sind besser als wir glauben - Wohlstand für alle, gebundene Ausgabe Pearson Studium, 2004; Taschenbuchausgabe Rowohlt Tb., 2006. Monetary policy: Goals, institutions, strategies, and instruments, Oxford University Press 2001. Also in Chinese language. Kazakstan 1993-2000: independent advisors and the IMF (mit L. Hoffmann, H. Flassbeck and A. Steinherr), Springer 2001; also available in Russian language. Stabilitätskultur in Europa (mit Carsten Hefeker und Kai Pfleger), Stuttgart 1998. 4
Geldpolitik: Ziele, Institutionen, Strategien und Instrumente (mit Julian Reischle und Andrea Schächter), München 1997. Festkurssysteme und geldpolitische Koordination (Habilitationsschrift), in: Schriften zur monetären Ökonomie, Nr. 29, Hrsg.: D. Duwendag, Baden-Baden 1991. Währungswettbewerb. Eine systematische Darstellung und kritische Würdigung von Friedrich A. von Hayeks Plänen zu einer grundlegenden Neugestaltung unserer Währungsordnung, in: Schriftenreihe "Annales Universitatis Saraviensis", Bd. 118, Köln-Berlin-Bonn-München 1985. 5