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On May 4, Isabel Schnabel received the prize of the Monetary Workshop (“Monetärer Workshop”) in Frankfurt. The award recognizes her achievements in “financial markets theory and banking regulation as well as her analyses of systemic financial crises”.
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Effective 1 May 2018, Dr. Wolf Heinrich Reuter was appointed as new secretary general to the German Council of Economic Experts. He succeeds Dr. Jochen Andritzky who served as secretary general since June 2015.
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In ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung’, the GCEE explains how the EU should re-spond to the tariff increase on steel and aluminium announced by US-President Donald Trump (in German only).
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The German Council of Economic Experts (GCEE) has slightly revised upwards its growth forecast for 2018 and now expects real gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 2.3 % in 2018 and 1.8 % in 2019.
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Yesterday, the German Council of Economic Experts received the award „Vordenker 2018“ in Frankfurt. On behalf of the Council, Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schmidt accepted the award that honors the Council’s work since its foundation in 1963.
„We honor the five…