Stefan Kooths

Dr. Stefan Kooths is a Vice President at Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
His main fields of expertise cover macroeconomic forecasting, stabilization policies, money and banking, globalization, and constitutional economics.
He advocates a coordination paradigm of economics that puts systemic mismatches caused by dysfunctional social coordination mechanisms at the forefront of economic analysis and interprets macroeconomic imbalances primarily as symptoms of pervasive distortions in the financial system.
Methodologically, he focuses on computational economics (simulation software, soft computing, and knowledge-based decision support systems).
He is chairman of the Hayek Society, a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society, sits on the Board of Directors of the World Economic Council, and serves in the Academic Advisory Council of the Liberal Institute in Zurich.
He also worked as a research associate and assistant professor at the Institute for Industrial Economics.
From 2002 to 2005, he was managing director of the Muenster Institute for Computational Economics.
Before joining the Kiel Institute in 2010, he held a position as Research Manager in the Macro Analysis and Forecasting Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
From 2010 to 2014, he was responsible for the German economic outlook in the Kiel Institute's Forecasting Center, where he became head of the department in 2014.
In 2013, he was appointed professor of economics at the University of Applied Sciences Europe (Campus Berlin).
Since 2020 he has lectured at the BSP Business and Law School in Berlin.
Dr. Stefan Kooths holds a Master of Science (1993) and a Ph.D.
(1998) in economics from the University of Muenster.