
Ulrike Malmendier on Making Germany Grow Again
In This Episode
While the German economy has been one of Europe’s strongest for decades, its performance in recent years has fallen short of expectations. Why is this once economic powerhouse now lagging? Ulrike Malmendier is a professor of economics and finance at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves on the German Council of Economic Advisors to the German government. In this podcast, Malmendier says an aging population and a lack of workers are contributing to the country’s economic woes. Transcript
Read Making Germany Grow Again in June's Finance & Development magazine
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