Benjamin Born is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Bonn and Research Director at the ifo Institute. He is a Research Fellow at CEPR and CESifo, advises the European Commission’s DG ECFIN, serves on the European Parliament’s Expert Group on Monetary Policy, and sits on the CEPR–EABCN Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Monetary Economics and the European Economic Review. He earned his PhD at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics.
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