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About Andrew Watt

Andrew Watt is Head of Unit European Economic Policy at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK – Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung) in the Hans-Böckler Foundation. He was previously senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute, where he coordinated the research unit ‘Economic, social and employment policies’.

Born 1963 in Great Britain, studied economics and modern languages at the University of Surrey (1982-1986 BSc), political science at the Otto-Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin (1987-1990), Advanced European Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland (1997-1999, MA), attended the doctoral program at the European Institute of the London School of Economics und received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg.

Research interests: European economic governance, comparative European political economy, macroeconomic policy, wage-setting and industrial relations, employment and labour market policies in Europe.

Consultant and adviser to numerous bodies (incl. European Commission, European Economic and Social Committee, Party of European Socialists, Foundation for European Progressive Studies). Master-level courses taught at the University of Bielefeld and the University of Applied Sciences BFI, Vienna. Member of the editorial board of Industrial Relations Journal and Economia e Lavoro. Member of the coordinating group of the FMM Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies.

Columns and blogs from 2009-2015 appeared on the Social Europe Journal. Since 2016 on andrewwatt.eu. Increasingly blogs have given way to commentary via Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewWattEU

 

Recent Posts

  • Brexit, the personal and the political
  • Macron and Kramp-Karrenbauer: vive la difference!
  • The UK after the draft agreement with the EU27
  • A balanced wage policy is not what it seems
  • Output growth less important than structure for the environment
  • Is the troika responsible for the Greek fire tragedy?
  • Debt rescheduling and the power of exponential growth
  • Merkel and Macron in Meseberg
  • Analysis of the proposal „A constructive approach to Euro Area reform“
  • Unemployment in the Euro Area passes a milestone

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Links to content I am involved in

  • My articles on Social Europe
  • IMK (EN pages)
  • iAGS - independent Annual Growth Survey
  • FMM - Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy
  • Hans-Böckler Stiftung

Recommended links

  1. Mainly macro (Simon Wren-Lewis)
  2. Paul Krugman
  3. econoblog101 (Dirk Ehnts)