Prof. Dr. h.c. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Ph.D.
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CV
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Macroeconomics at Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her PhD in economics from Yale University, was assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, and holds an honorary doctorate from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is Program Director of the “Macroeconomics and Growth” program area at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London/Paris and an elected member of the Econometric Society. She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2018, the highest scientific award in Germany, and the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik in 2016. She was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2010 and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2018. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and on the scientific advisory boards of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action and the Deutsche Bundesbank. She is also a member of numerous international research networks.
Awards and academic honors
2023 Carus Medal, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2023 Honorary doctorate, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
seit 2022 Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
seit 2022 Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
seit 2021 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
seit 2020 Fellow of the Econometric Society
2019 Consolidator Grant, European Research Council (ERC)
2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize, German Research Foundation
2016 Gossen Prize, Verein für Socialpolitik
2010 Starting Grant, ERC
Selected Publications
Bick, Alexander/Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola (2022): Reassessing Economic Constraints: Maximum Employment or Maximum Hours? Proceedings of the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, p. 7-67.
Bick, Alexander/Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Lagakos, David/Tsujiyama, Hitoshi (2022): Structural Change in Labor Supply and Cross-Country Differences in Hours Worked. Journal of Monetary Economics, 130, p. 68-85.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Krueger, Dirk/Ludwig, Alexander/Popova, Irina (2022): The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures. The Economic Journal, 132 (645), p. 1647-1683.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Schündeln, Matthias (2020): The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34 (2), p. 172-91.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Masella, Paolo/Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah (2019): Cultural Determinants of Household Saving Behavior. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 52 (5), p. 1035-1070.
Bick, Alexander/Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola (2018): Taxation and Labour Supply of Married Couples across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis. Review of Economic Studies, 85 (3).
Bick, Alexander/Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Lagakos, David (2018): How do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications. American Economic Review, 108 (1), p. 170-99.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Hassan, Tarek Alexander (2016): Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics. In: Taylor, John B./Uhlig, Harald (Hg..): Handbook of Macroeconomics. Elsevier, 2a, p. 923-1012.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Masella, Paolo (2016): Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education. Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (3), p. 428-441.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Schündeln, Matthias (2015): On the Endogeneity of Political Preferences: Evidence from Individual Experience with Democracy. Science, 347 (6226), p. 1145-1148.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola (2008): The Response of Household Saving to the Large Shock of German Reunification. American Economic Review, 98 (5), p. 1798-1828.
Alesina, Alberto/ Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola (2007): Good Bye Lenin (or not)? – The Effect of Communism on People’s Preferences. American Economic Review, 97 (4), p. 1507-1528.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola/Schündeln, Matthias (2005): Precautionary Savings and Self-Selection: Evidence from the German Reunification “Experiment”. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (3), p. 1085-1120.
Third-party projects
DFG research group „Makroökonomische Implikationen von Intra-Haushalt-Entscheidungen“ (2023-2027)