Werner Roeger

Werner Roeger received his PhD from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and worked at the Institute for Applied Economic Research at the University of Tübingen before joining the European Commission in Brussels in 1989. In the summer semester 2001, he was visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2004 he became head of the unit "Economic Models and Databases" at the Directorate General for Economics and Finance at the European Commission. Since 2020 he is research fellow at DIW Berlin and at VIVES/ University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests focus on business cycles, quantitative analysis of fiscal and structural policies as well as the analysis of external and internal imbalances.