Prof. Dr. Philipp Harms

Philipp Harms is professor of economics at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and joined the Study Center Gerzensee in September 2002. Before receiving his Ph.D. in economics from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) in 1999, he attended the Program for Doctoral Students at Gerzensee and spent a year as a visiting graduate student at the University of Maryland. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty of the University of Konstanz (Germany). He also taught classes in Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics at the Universities of St. Gallen and Lausanne. His main research areas are dynamic macroeconomics, political economy, and international economics.