Michael Binder

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Michael Binder is Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt, holding the Chair for International Macroeconomics and Macroeconometrics since 2003. At Goethe University, he also Founding Dean of the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management.
 
Binder did his undergraduate coursework in economics, business administration and law at the University of Kiel, and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. Upon completion of his Ph.D. he was a faculty member at the University of Maryland. Binder has been a Fulbright scholar, a Marie Curie research fellow, a scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation, and has been the recipient of numerous teaching and advising awards. He has published on a variety of topics in macroeconomics and applied econometrics, and is/was an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Empirical Economics. Binder has held visiting appointments inter alia at the University of Cambridge, the University of Munich (CESifo), the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Bank of Spain.
 
Binder's current research in part examines the implications of financial and trade globalization for business cycle dynamics, output growth, and exchange rate dynamics. This research involves the development of new econometric methods for macroeconomic panels, as well as the assembly of new cross-country panel data sets.

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