Rainer Schweickert is deputy head
of the Kiel Institute for World
Economics’ research department
‘Development Economics and Global
Integration’ and head of the division
‘Stability and Structural Adjustment’.
He holds a master’s degree in
Economics from the University of
Mannheim, Germany, and a doctoral
degree from the University of Kiel,
Germany. His main areas of research
are real exchange rates,
macroeconomic equilibrium and
monetary integration.