Moritz Schularick is a Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and professor of economics at the University of Bonn. He was previously a professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, and worked in the financial industry for several years. His current work focuses on credit cycles, the determinants of financial crises, and the international monetary system. Together with Niall Ferguson, he coined the term “Chimerica” to describe the intimate financial relations between the United States and China. Working at the crossroads of monetary and international economics as well as economic history, his contributions can be found in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Economic History, and several other journals.
Moritz Schularick
- Leader of Private Debt
- Leader of Finance and the Welfare of Nations: The View from Economic History
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Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality and U.S. Household Debt Since 1950
A look at the American household debt boom
Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016
Increased borrowing by middle-class families with low income growth played a central role in rising indebtedness
Rates of Return on Everything: A New Database
Returns on wealth exceed growth for more countries, more years, and more dramatically than Piketty has found
When the Middle Class Lost Its Wealth
Until 2008, rising home values gave the middle class a cushion amid growing income inequality. But following the financial crisis, that wealth has failed to return.
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Debt Talks Episode 2: Debt, Wealth, and Racial Inequalities moderated by Moritz Schularick with Mehrsa Baradaran, Ashley C. Harrington, Darrick Hamilton and Louise Seamster
Racial inequalities of wealth and income are pervasive. This episode of Debt Talks will feature a conversation with four prominent experts on the persistence of racial inequalities of wealth and income and the role of financial markets in shaping them.
Debt Talks Episode 1: The Secular Rise of Debt moderated by Moritz Schularick with Laura Carvalho, Matthew C. Klein, and Amir Sufi | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
A webinar panel discussion moderated by INET Fellow Moritz Schularick, with Laura Carvalho, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo, Matthew C. Klein, Economics Commentator at Barron’s, and Amir Sufi, Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Europe’s Hamiltonian Moment...or the Beginning of the End? 11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET
A webinar panel discussion, moderated by Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times, with Laurence Boone, OECD Chief Economist, Moritz Schularick, INET Research Fellow, and Adam Tooze, Director of the European Institute at Columbia University.
How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality
When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class