“Will a black-red coalition under Merz bring recovery?” With Dominika Langenmayr, Sebastian Dullien, Holger Schmieding and Philipp Heimberger
28/February/2025
2 pm CET
PLACE
Zoom
LANGUAGE
German
After the election, everything points to Germany soon being governed by a black-red coalition under Friedrich Merz. What are the chances of economic improvement? Will tax cuts for all, as intended by the CDU, really help? Or would targeted investment bonuses be better? And who will pay for this? What are the chances of a reform of the debt brake – and an end to austerity, which has contributed greatly to the recession?
We discussed these questions in our New Economy Short Cut “Will a black-red coalition under Merz bring recovery?” with Dominika Langenmayr, Professor of Economics at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Sebastian Dullien, Scientific Director of the IMK, Holger Schmieding, Chief Economist at Berenberg Bank, and Philipp Heimberger, economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies.
Dominika Langenmayr
is a Professor of Economics, esp. Public Finance, at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, and a CESifo research fellow. Since 2021 she serves on the scientific advisory board at the German Ministry of Finance.
Sebastian Dullien
is Research Director of the Macroeconomic Policy Institut (Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung) of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation and professor for international economics at HTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences.
Holger Schmieding
is Chief Economist at Berenberg Bank. Before joining Germany's oldest private bank in October 2010, he was Chief Economist Europe for Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and then Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London.
Philipp Heimberger
is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, where he heads the Macroeconomics research group.