Professor of Macroeconomics and Economic Policy

Tom Krebs is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim and head of the center for transformation research at the University of Mannheim. He is also the chairman of the Department of Economics. He received his MSc in physics from the University of Hamburg and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

In his research, Tom Krebs studies the economic and political consequences of structural transformation and economic crises. The key findings of his current research are presented in an accessible form in his forthcoming book Capital and Crisis (to appear September 2026). Tom Krebs is a member of the German minimum wage commission and was the the first visiting professor at the German Ministry of Finance in 2019/2020. He has been an economic consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank , and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

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