Dennis J. Snower

Biography

Dennis J. Snower is President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He is Director of the Global Economic Symposium and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), IZA (Institute for the Study of Labour, Bonn) and CESifo (Munich).

Dennis J. Snower earned a BA and MA from New College, Oxford University, and an MA and a PhD at Princeton University. Prior to becoming President of the Kiel Institute, he was Professor of Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

He is an expert on labour economics, public policy and inflation-unemployment trade-offs. As part of his research career, he has originated the “insider-outsider” theory of employment and unemployment with Assar Lindbeck, the theory of “high-low search” with Steve Alpern, and the “chain reaction theory of unemployment” and the theory of “frictional growth” with Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala. He has made seminal contributions to the design of employment subsidies and welfare accounts. He has published extensively on employment policy and the design of welfare systems, as well as on monetary and fiscal policy.

He has been a visiting professor at many universities around the world, including Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth College, the European University Institute, Stockholm University, and the Vienna Institute of Advanced Studies. Furthermore, he has advised a variety of international organisations and national governments on macroeconomic policy, employment policy and welfare state policy.