Marcel Thum is a Professor of Economics at TU Dresden and Director of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Dresden. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1995. He is a member of the advisory council of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and Research Fellow of CESifo. His main research interests are in public economics, labour economics and demographic change.
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