Biography

Michael C. Burda is a professor of economics at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 1993. He studied economics at Harvard, where he obtained his PhD in 1987. He has also taught at INSEAD, Berkeley, and the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. In addition to over 100 scientific articles, he is co-author with Charles Wyplosz of the textbook Macroeconomics: A European Text, published by Oxford University Press, which reached its eighth edition in 2022 and has been translated into 13 languages. In 1998, he received the Gossen Prize from the Verein für Socialpolitik, the professional society of economists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, of which he was president from 2011 to 2015. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR in London), IZA, and CES-Ifo, and is a fellow of the European Economic Association. In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Magdeburg for his studies on German unification. His main research interests include labor economics, European integration, and the macroeconomics of climate change.