Klaus Adam is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, Research Professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank, a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance, a Research Fellow at the Center of Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, a Research Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) in Frankfurt and Scientific Chair of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN). He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Monetary Economics and a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (HAdW).
His research focuses on macroeconomics with a special emphasis on monetary and fiscal policy making, as well as on issues related to learning and the formation of expectations with applications to asset pricing and business cycle dynamics.
For the period 2011–2017 he received an ERC Starting Grant for the project 'Boom and Bust Cycles in Asset Prices: Real Implications and Monetary Policy Options' which ERC supports with more than 750.000 Euros. In April 2012 Klaus Adam received the inaugural Junior Prize for Monetary and Financial Economics from Banque de France and Tolouse School of Economics. In 2016 he received the Carl Menger Prize of the German Economic Association.
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Prior to joining Mannheim University he was Principal Economist at the Monetary Policy Research Division of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Klaus Adam studied economics at University of Freiburg, University of Wisconsin (Madison), and at Bonn University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence and held assistant professorships at the University of Salerno and Goethe University in Frankfurt.
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