Michael Koetter

Dr. Michael Koetter is a Vice President at Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle.
He is a member of the executive board of the institute.
He is a Professor of Financial Economics at the Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, and head of the Financial Markets Department at IWH.
The department is host to the annual FIN-FIRE conference on challenges to financial stability.
His research interests concern generally the causal effects of policy actions on financial and non-financial agents’ behavior.
Specific topics are the role of micro-and macro-prudential regulation for the stability of financial systems, as well as whether and how financial intermediaries help or hinder the reallocation of productive resources among firms, sectors, and countries.
The political economy of financial and economic systems regarding market structure and risk-resilience is another topic of interest.
He currently serves as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Research Data and Service Center of Deutsche Bundesbank, an editor at the Economics of Transition, and the Vice President of the IBEFA association.
Before joining IWH, he was a Professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (2012-2016) and the University of Groningen (2006-2012).
He obtained his Ph.D.
in economics from Utrecht University and his M.Sc.
in international economics from the University of Maastricht.