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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, 3rd edition 2009.
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. In 2008 he was Bradlow Fellow of SAIIA and in Fall 2009 a Visiting Scholar at the IMF.
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)
Other Books and Papers
- Global Financial Crisis, Protectionism, and Current Account Deficits: South Africa on the Brink? (University Jena Working Papers on Global Financial Markets Nr 8)
- Sub-Saharan Africa and G20 Responses to the Global Financial Crisis: First, Do No Harm (University Jena Working Papers on Global Financial Markets Nr 16)
- The Dynamics of Structural Change - The EU's Trade with China (Jena Economic Papers)
- Combat Protectionism – the only Chance for Emerging Economies to become a Major Player (Andreas Freytag & Sebastian Voll. Article in the India Economy Review (p.96). )
- 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 )
- Whither the G8? (Published in Europe's World)
Articles, Opinion and Commentary
- Handelspolitik im Griff der Interessen (Andreas Freytag and Razeen Sally on the trade and the world economy in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.)
- The Measure of Things (Andreas Freytag in the European on measuring growth and well-being)
- Deutschlands vernachlässigtes Freihandelsinteresse (Article by Andreas Freytag and Valentin Zahrnt in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
- Is Germany too Dependent on Export? (Andreas Freytag debates German export orientation in the Economist)
- Liberalisation in Emerging Markets (Andreas Freytag and Sebastian Voll about emerging market liberalisation in the Vox )
Media Coverage
- Vierteljahresheft liberal 2/2011 (Andreas Freytag and Valentin Zahrnt comment on the European trade strategy)
- Debt Relief and Financial Crisis (Andreas Freytag and Gernot Pehnelt about the financial crisis and debt relief in VoxEU )
- 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 )
- Business drops the Doha ball (ECIPE scholars Fredrik Erixon and Andreas Freytag discuss the role of business in the Doha round)