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Christian Breuer

  • Junior Professor, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • Head of Wirtschaftsdienst and Intereconomics, zbw – the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Christian Breuer is a Junior Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology and Head of Wirtschaftsdienst and Intereconomics at zbw – the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. From 2008 and 2016 he was at the IFO Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich and a member of the Working Group on Tax Revenue Forecasting at the German Ministry of Finance. His work has appeared in Health Economics, the Journal of Economics and Statistics, and CESifo Forum.

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The Myth of Expansionary Austerity

Article By Christian Breuer | Jul 8, 2019

It was too good to be true: Another effort to vindicate austerity falls victim to flawed methodology.

Expansionary Austerity and Reverse Causality: A Critique of the Conventional Approach

Paper Working Paper Series | By Christian Breuer | Jul 2019

It was too good to be true: Another effort to vindicate austerity falls victim to flawed methodology.