Gunther Schnabl

Gunther Schnabl is a Professor of Economic Policy and International Economic Relations at the University of Leipzig, where he directs the Institute for Economic Policy.

He received his doctorate and habilitation from the University of Tübingen, and his doctoral research focused on current account imbalances and monetary integration in East Asia and Europe. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, the Catholic University of Leuven, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Bank of Japan, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the European Central Bank. Before his appointment to the University of Leipzig, he worked as an advisor at the European Central Bank.

Schnabl’s writings on monetary integration, exchange rate policy, current account imbalances, and boom-and-bust cycles in financial markets have been published in many international peer-reviewed journals. In the rankings of the international scientific database IDEAS, he is ranked in the top 3 percent of economists in Germany and Europe. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ranks him among the 100 most influential economists in Germany.

Schnabl is co-editor of Ordo – Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.

See the personal homepage of Gunther Schnabl at the University of Leipzig.

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