Biographie

Moritz Schularick is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Bonn, Director of the MacroFinance Lab, and a Principal Investigator in the DFG-Excellence Cluster ECONtribute. He works in the fields of macrofinance, banking and financial stability, as well as international finance, political economy, and economic history.

His work work with Òscar Jordà and Alan Taylor on credit cycles and financial stability has provided the backdrop for so-called macro-prudential policies aimed at curbing credit booms. Their paper “Credit Booms Gone Bust” ranks among the most highly cited papers in macroeconomics in the past decade. He is one of the recipients of the 2022 Leibniz-Preis. In 2018, he received the Gossen-Prize of the German Economic Association.