Christoph Trebesch

Director of Research Area "International Finance and Macroeconomics" at Kiel Institute for World Economics, Professor of Economics at Kiel University

  • RPN Member, Populism
  • Fellow, Political Economy
  • Fellow, International Macroeconomics and Finance
  • RPN Leader, International Lending and Sovereign Debt
  • RPN Steering Committee, Geoeconomics
Website
https://www.sites.google.com/site/christophtrebesch/
Christoph Trebesch is a Professor of Economics at the University of Kiel and at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, where he heads the Research Area "International Finance and Global Governance". Before coming to Kiel he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Munich (until 2017) and completed his PhD at Free University of Berlin (in 2011), with research stays at Yale and at the IMF. He is also a Research Affiliate of CEPR and CESifo. His research focuses on international finance and international macroeconomics, economic history, and political economy.

Publications 

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VoxEU Column

Foreign support to Ukraine: Evidence from a database of military, financial, and humanitarian aid

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  • Politics and economics
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  • Ukraine Initiative
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VoxEU Column

China’s overseas lending and the war in Ukraine

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  • International Finance
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  • Politics and economics
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External sovereign debt restructurings: Delay and replay

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  • International Finance
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  • Development
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VoxEU Column

The political consequences of the Covid pandemic: Lessons from cross-country polling data

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  • COVID-19
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  • Politics and economics