Claudia M. Buch

University of Tuebingen

Claudia M Buch joined the University of Tübingen in 2004, where she holds the chair for International Macroeconomics and Finance. On March 1, 2012, she was appointed member of the German Council of Economic Experts. She has been the Scientific Director of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Tübingen) since January 2005. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the German Ministry of Economics, of the Advisory Scientific Committee to the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), and of the extended board of directors of the German Economic Association. From 1992 to 2003, Claudia Buch was affiliated with the Kiel Institute for World Economics (Germany) where she headed the research area “Financial Markets”. She graduated from the University of Bonn, Germany, with a Master of Economics in 1991 and from the University of Wisconsin with a Master of Business Administration in 1989. From the University of Kiel, she received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1996 and a Habilitation (German post-doc degree) in 2002. She has published widely on issues related to international finance and macroeconomics, international financial markets, financial integration, international banking, and foreign direct investment.