ZEW President Clemens Fuest Receives Gustav Stolper Award

Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest, president of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), was honoured with the 2013 Gustav Stolper Award sponsored by the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS, Social Policy Association) in Düsseldorf.

The award honours the commitment of economists to public debate. At the award ceremony VfS, chairman Professor Michael C. Burda, PhD, stressed that Clemens Fuest has been a particularly important voice within the context of the European debt crisis. Professor Fuest received the award at the annual meeting of the VfS in Düsseldorf from September 4-7, 2013. The award is named after Gustav Stolper (1888–1947), a renowned Austrian economist, journalist and political advisor.

According to Professor Burda, Clemens Fuest is a worthy winner of this award due to his influential contributions to the economic policy debate. "Clemens Fuest argues in favour of a European solution to the sovereign debt crisis. He has been advocating that there are no easy solutions to the debt crisis – although easy answers remain popular," said Michael Burda.

The main research topics of Clemens Fuest include international fiscal policy and public finance. His current research focuses on the debt crisis in the eurozone, international fiscal competition, the implications of globalisation and European integration for tax policy, and the impact of taxation on firm behaviour.

Clemens Fuest has been president of ZEW since March 2013 and is a professor of economics at the University of Mannheim. He thanked Michael Burda for his laudatory speech and added: "I am very delighted to receive this award. I take it as an encouragement to continue devoting myself to research and to contributing the results to public debate."

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