Ansgar Belke is Full Professor of Macroeconomics and Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Studies (IBES) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Since 2012 he is (ad personam) Jean Monnet Professor. Moreover, he is member of the Adjunct Faculty Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS Econ), visiting professor at the Europa-Institute at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, and the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and President of the European Economics and Finance Society.
Ansgar Belke was visiting researcher at the IMF in Washington/DC, CentER Tilburg, CEPS Brussels, IfW Kiel, DIW Berlin and OeNB Vienna. Furthermore, he was Research Director for International Macroeconomics at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, and now is Research Professor at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels.
His main areas of interest are in the fields of international macroeconomics, monetary economics, European integration and applied econometrics.

VoxEU Blog/Review
Event studies and the random walk hypothesis: Why the end of bond buying by the ECB is a non-event
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- Monetary Policy 
- EU policies

VoxEU Column
Business cycle desynchronisation: Amplitude and beta versus co-movement
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- Europe's nations and regions 
- Macroeconomic policy