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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News
- Oct 2026 What would socialising Berlin’s large housing stocks cost the city? New DIW aktuell and an interactive calculator.
- Oct 2026 Applications open for the BASEforHANK Spring School, 1–10 March 2027 (online and at DIW Berlin), on solving and estimating HANK models with Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born and Ralph Luetticke. Deadline 15 November 2026: Call for applications.
- 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.
- Aug 2026 Financial Repression in General Equilibrium: The Case of the United States, 1948–1974 (with Martin Kliem, Gernot Müller and Alexander Scheer) conditionally accepted at the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
- Mar 2026 Is There an Information Channel of Monetary Policy? (with Oliver Holtemöller and Boreum Kwak) accepted at the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; now published open access.
- 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.