Peter Bofinger is Professor for Monetary Policy and International Economics at the University of Wuerzburg and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, (CEPR) London. He received his doctoral level at Saarland University. Previously he was Economist at the Bundesbank, Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and at the IMF, and Professor at the Universities of Kaiserslautern and Konstanz. He was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2004 to 2019. He is author of textbooks on macroeconomics and monetary economics (Monetary Policy: Goals, Institutions, Strategies, and Instruments) as well as general interest books on economic issues.
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R-star: An alternative approach to estimate the polar star of monetary policy
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- Inflation 
- Monetary Policy
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How monetary policy affects bank lending and financial stability: A ‘credit creation theory of banking’ explanation
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- Financial Regulation and Banking 
- Monetary Policy
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Discovering the ‘true’ Schumpeter: New insights on the finance and growth nexus
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- Economic history 
- Financial Markets
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Central bank digital currencies risk becoming a gigantic flop
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- Monetary Policy 
- Financial Regulation and Banking
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The independence of the central bank at risk
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- Competition Policy 
- Monetary Policy 
- EU institutions 
- EU policies