Christian Wolf, the Rudi Dornbusch Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, is one of four scholars to receive a 2024 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Wolf is recognized for "his influential research on macroeconomics and on inequality."
Wolf, who joined MIT Economics in 2021 after completing his PhD at Princeton University, works in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. In much of his research, Wolf develops and applies new ways to learn about the origins of business cycles and optimal policy design. The Kiel Institute's citation notes that "not only has Wolf's significant contribution on identification in macroeconomics been widely adopted, but he has also provided pathbreaking insights on monetary transmission mechanisms and fiscal policy."
The Kiel Institute's Excellence Awards began in 2007 and recognize talented young economists from around the world each year. Wolf and the other 2024 recipients will be awarded a Research Fellowship at the Institute and presented with awards at the 3rd Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics in Berlin on October 18.
