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Andreas Freytag

Andreas Freytag
andreas.freytag@ecipe.org


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.

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