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Andreas Freytag
Areas of expertise
- Development economics
- German economic policy
- Global order
- International Monetary Policy
- Principles of economic policy
- Telecommunications regulation
- Theory of economic policy reform
- Trade policy
Andreas Freytag is a Senior Fellow of ECIPE and a Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He is a member of the new DFG-funded graduate program “The Economics of Innovative Change” at the Friedrich-Schiller-University. Freytag has been a Visiting professor at Tallinn University of Technology since 2003. He has been an ombudsman for the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation since 2005, a member of the Executive Board of the European Public Choice Society (for the term 2006-2009) and has been an associated member of the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto since 1999.
Andreas Freytag is a specialist in international relations and the theory of economic policy. He has published a number of books and articles on (international) monetary policy, international trade and competition policy, development economics, and international policy coordination as well as on the theory of policy reform. Freytag also frequently publishes scientific articles and notes about German economic policy. He is co-author (with Juergen B. Donges) of a textbook entitled Allgemeine Wirtschaftspolitik, 2nd edition 2004.
Freytag has been consultant for the OECD, the European Commission and several government agencies and private groups in Germany. Former appointments include the Kiel Institute for World Economics, the Universities of Cologne and Cambridge as well as the Bank of Estonia.
ECIPE Publications
- That Chinese “juggernaut” – should Europe really worry about its trade deficit with China? (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 2/2008)
- The Rome Treaty at 50 (ECIPE Policy Briefs No. 04, 2007)
- Germany and the G-8 Presidency (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 2, 2007)
- Debt Relief and Changing Governance Structures in Developing Countries (ECIPE Working Paper No. 02, 2006)
Recent media coverage
- EU, China and the rising tide of protectionism (Fredrik Erixon and Andreas Freytag on EU-China trade relations in the FNS magazine )
- South Africa’s Current Account Deficit: Are Proposed Cures Worse than the Disease? (Article by Peter Draper and Andreas Freytag in the AllAfrica.com)
- EU und China schlittern in den Protektionismus (Fredrik Erixon and Andreas Freytag on EU-China relations in Handelsblatt (in German) )
- EU-China trade relation (Andreas Freytag writes about EU’s soaring trade deficit with China in Vox )
- Freihandel für Fortgeschrittene (Fredrik Erixon and Andreas Freytag in Internationale Politik )
- The G-8 Summit and the world economy (Fredrik Erixon and Andreas Freytag about the G-8 summit and its "leitmotif" in the Frankfurter Allgemein Zeitung )
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Other publications
- Whither the G8? (Published in Europe's World)
- South Africa’s Current Account Deficit: Are Proposed Cures Worse than the Disease? (Trade Policy Report by Peter Draper and Andreas Freytag published by SAIIA )