Mrs. Ilona Lorbeer

Phone: +49 - (0) 70 71 - 29 - 7 81 66
Telefax: +49 - (0) 70 71 - 29 - 50 71 
E-Mail: ilona.lorbeeruni-tuebingen.de 

 Prof. Dr. Buch holds her office hour in summer term 2009 on appointment.

Please write an email with your concern to ilona.lorbeeruni-tuebingen.de.

Claudia M. Buch joined the University of Tuebingen in January 2004, where she holds the chair for International Finance and Macroeconomics. She has been Scientific Director of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung Tübingen) since January 2005 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the German Ministry of Economics and Labor since 2004.

She was affiliated with the Kiel Institute for World Economics (Germany) from 1992 to 2003, where she was heading the research area 'Financial Markets'. She graduated from the University of Bonn, Germany, with a Master of Economics in 1991 and from the University of Wisconsin with a Master of Business Administration in 1989. From the University of Kiel, she received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1996 and a Habilitation (German post-doc degree) in 2002. She has been a visiting scholar at the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions (New York University), at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge MA), and at the Research Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt).

(Link to complete Curriculum Vitae)

• Financial markets and macroeconomic volatility
• Determinants and effects of foreign direct investment
• International Banking
• European financial integration and Eastern enlargement