Prof. Isabel Schnabel and Dr. Wolf Heinrich Reuter (German Council of Economic Experts) speak at the ESM

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2019

(with special focus on German economy and Banking Union)

Professor Isabel Schnabel was appointed to the German Council of Economic Experts in June 2014. She is specialized in the study of financial markets. Professor Schnabel lectures in Financial Economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn, is a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy (CEPR) and at the Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. She is also Deputy Dean of the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management (GSEFM). Her primary fields of research are banking regulation, the “too big to fail” phenomenon, and systemic financial crises, under both current and historic perspectives. Professor Schnabel completed her PhD in Mannheim on the topic of links between macro-economic risks and financial crises in 2003. She was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University and has researched at both the London School of Economics and the International Monetary Fund. She is a member of the Administrative Council and chairwoman of the Advisory Council at BaFin, the German banking supervisory authority. Furthermore she is a member of the academic advisory council at the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).

Dr. Wolf Heinrich Reuter was appointed as new secretary general to the German Council of Economic Experts in 2018. He succeeds Dr. Jochen Andritzky who served as secretary general since June 2015. Dr. Reuter received his doctorate in 2013 from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In May 2016 he joined the German Council of Economic Experts as economist for macroeconomics. Prior to this, Dr. Reuter was an economist at the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) and a research assistant at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna) and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

This is an ESM research internal seminar. If you would like to attend, please write an email to ESMresearch@esm.europa.eu