Alexander Kriwoluzky

I am a professor at Freie Universität Berlin and head of the macroeconomics department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin.

I previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Bonn and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. I received my PhD in economics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I was supervised by Harald Uhlig and Bartosz Maćkowiak.

My research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy, and their interaction. In particular, I am working on how monetary and fiscal policy shape inflation, public debt, and the broader macroeconomy. In my research, I combine macroeconomic theory with empirical methods to study questions that matter for central banks, governments, and households, including how interest-rate decisions are transmitted through financial markets, how financial repression affects the sustainability of public debt, and how monetary policy interacts with energy prices. M work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Ecnonomics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy Macroecnomics.

As the head of the Macroeconomics Department at DIW Berlin, I lead a team of more than twenty researchers working on monetary and fiscal policy, inequality, and the macroeconomics of the green transition. I am also a professor of economics at Freie Universität Berlin and a member of the Berlin School of Economics.

Beyond academic publishing, I engage with policy institutions and the broader public debate on monetary and fiscal policy in Europe. I contribute to discussions on issues such as energy-price shocks, high public debt, and the design of macroeconomic policies to deal with them. In my teaching and supervision, I aim to help students understand how abstract macroeconomic models connect to real-world policy choices and their distributional consequences.