Dr. Sebastian Dullien
DAAD/AICGS Fellow

Dr. Sebastian Dullien is an economics correspondent and columnist at the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD), the German language edition of The Financial Times. Writing from Berlin, he usually covers the fate of the world economy, with a strong focus on German and European macroeconomics.

After finishing his Master's degree in economics at the Freie Universität in Berlin in 2000, he first worked as a free-lance economist for the German Institute of Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) and then started working as a lead writer for FTD from where he later moved on to the economics desk. In addition, he continued to pursue his academic research, finishing his Ph.D. on the "Interaction of wage bargaining and monetary policy in the European Monetary Union (EMU)" in 2003. In 2004, he briefly left the paper to work as an economics expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva on international capital flows and the macroeconomics of China's impressive economic developments. In 2006, he co-founded the website Eurozone Watch, a blog covering economics and economic governance issues of the EMU.

His current research focuses on economic governance problems in the Euro area and especially on the question of whether regional divergences in growth and inflation might endanger the stability of EMU in the medium and long run. In this context, he is also looking for institutional reforms that could help alleviate the consequences of these divergences. At AICGS, he will research how the United States system of unemployment insurance might provide lessons for the EMU. The basic structure of the U.S. system is especially interesting for the Euro area as it leaves a lot of discretion about benefits and institutional designs to the states, but provides a federal umbrella which funnels funds to states with economic difficulties.

Dr. Dullien will be at AICGS until February 23, 2007. To contact him while he is at AICGS, please click here.