Christoph Paetz
Christoph Paetz works as a Senior Researcher at Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans Böckler Foundation in the Tax and Fiscal Policy Department and teaches regularly at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW). He wrote his doctoral thesis on "Rules versus discretion: the macroeconomic dynamics and hysteresis of fiscal policy" at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interests are European economic policy, tax and fiscal policy, fiscal rules, macroeconomic performance and econometric modeling.
He studied at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) from 2009 to 2014, first Economics (B.A.) and then International Economics (M.A.). He was a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City and studied at the CSU Fresno Craig School of Business, USA. He also completed internships at the German Embassy in London, the German Trade Union Confederation, and the IMK. He also worked as a student assistant at the Institute for International Political Economy (IPE) in Berlin from 2013 to 2014.