Alexander Kriwoluzky
I am a professor at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin and head of the Macroeconomics Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin.
My research studies monetary and fiscal policy, with a particular focus on their interaction and macroeconomic effects.
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- Mar 2027 BASEforHANK Spring School at DIW Berlin — hands-on training in heterogeneous-agent models.
- Dec 2026 Macroeconometric Workshop on 18 December at DIW Berlin, jointly with FU and HU Berlin; keynote by Evi Pappa.
- Oct 2026 New DIW Weekly Report with Frederik Kurcz: ECB interest rate hikes have a greater impact in euro area countries with restrictive fiscal policies.
- Oct 2026 Is There an Information Channel of Monetary Policy? (with Oliver Holtemöller and Boreum Kwak) is out in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, open access.
- Sep 2026 Financial Repression in General Equilibrium (with Martin Kliem, Gernot Müller and Alexander Scheer) conditionally accepted at the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
- Sep 2026 New DFG grant with Malte Rieth: Macroeconomic and distributional effects of military spending — how Europe’s military build-up affects output, firms and households, studied for Germany.
- Sep 2026 What would socialising Berlin’s large housing stocks cost the city? New DIW aktuell and an interactive calculator.
- Feb 2026 Redistribution within and across borders: The fiscal response to an energy shock (with Christian Bayer, Gernot Müller and Fabian Seyrich) accepted at the Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics.