CV : Professor Dr.

Stefan Collignon
Adresse:
11 RUE DORMESSON
75004 PARIS, FRANCE
Mobile: +33 6 180 426 40
Email: s.collignon@lse.ac.uk
Personal Details:
Born: 11 December 1951, Munich Germany
Nationality: German
Status: married
Languages: fluent: English, German, French, Italian; ancient Greek and Latin
Appointments

Professore ordinario di prima fascia di Politica economica, SantAnna School

of Advanced Studies, Pisa, since October 2007
Faculty Political Sciences, IMT, Lucca , since October 2007
Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Science Government Department
and Centre for European Studies, July 2005-2007
Centennial Professor of European Political Economy London School of
Economics and Political Science, January 2001-2005

Guest professorships

University of Hamburg, Germany, 2007/8 to present

Beijing Normal University ( ) Institute of Economics and
Resource Management, 2010 to present
Institut dEtudes Politiques, Lille, 2005 to 2007
Collge dEurope, Bruge, 1998 to 2005
Postgraduierten-Studiengang Europawissenschaften, Freie Universitt
Berlin, Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, Technische Universitt Berlin,
2002 and 2003
Privatdozent 1996-2000, Freie Universitt Berlin;
Matre-Confrence, Institut dEtudes Politiques, Paris

Previous employment
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Deputy Director General (Europe) (Unterabteilungsleiter),

Bundesministerium der Finanzen Berlin;1.1.1999 - 31.12.2000
Director of Research and Communication, Association for the Monetary
Union of Europe, Paris, 1989-1998
Chairman and Managing Director, Dorcas Ltd, London, 1981-1988
Secondary School Teacher (economics), Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst,
Lindi, Tanzania, 1977-1979
Financial Analyst, First National Bank in Dallas, Paris, 1975-1976

Academic Qualifications and Education

Freie Universitt Berlin, 1999

Freie Universitt Berlin, 1989
London School of Economics, 1986-1989
Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, 1981
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1978-79
Freie Universitt Berlin, 1977
Institut dEtudes Politiques Paris, 1974-1975

Humanistisches Ludwigsgymnasium Mnchen,

Habilitation
PhD (Dr. rer. pol.)
Research fellow
Research fellow
Research fellows
Diplom-Volkswirt
Certificat dEtudes
Politiques
Abitur

Other Professional Activities

European Parliament, Member of the European Expert Group advising the

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, since 2009
Centro Europa Ricerche (CER), Roma, Presidente del Comitato Scientifico
2007-2010; International Chief Economist since 2011
European Commission, 2005 2010; Special Advisor to the European
Commissioner for Regional Policy, Mrs Danuta Hbener
Glunz AG, Germany; Deputy Chairman of supervisory board, 1998-2010
Sonae Industria SGPS, Portugal Non-executive Board member, 2003-2005

Honours and prizes

Prix du meilleur livre politique, awarded by the Association Le Banquet rpublicain
for the book Vive la rpublique europenne (2004)

Professional and other Activities

Academic activities

Director Euro-Asia Forum, a joint venture between SantAnna School of

Advanced Studies and WASEDA University, Tokyo and Beijing Normal
Universtity
Organised student exchanges between Beijing Normal University and
SantAnna School of Advanced Studies (in 2011 and 2012)
Research fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Governance 2009-2011 and
Hellenic Laboratory since 2011 at the London School of Economics
Trustee of The Federal Trust, London
Member of editorial board, International Economics and Economic Policy
(IEEP)
Visiting fellow, ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of
Oslo. Research, funded by European Commission (Framework 7) RECON
program. September 2007

International conferences:
Speaker at the European Commissions Employment Policy Conference, panel
"Wages - adjustments and strategies", on 6 September 2012

Key note speaker at Annual Conference of Asia Development Bank Institute,

Tokyo, December 2011
Organising academic conference: Competitiveness in the Euro Area: Italy and
Germany; Rome, July 2011
Organising academic conference: Dealing with global imbalances, conference
organized in the context of Euro-Asia Forum in cooperation with Bertelsmann
Stiftung and Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Pisa, July 2010
Speaker at European Commission Expert Conference on: Wage trends in
Europe, Brussels, 15 September 2011
Speaker at ECB in-house workshops on monetary policy, 2010 and 2011
Speaker at The lessons of the financial crisis for Asia and Europe; organized
in the context of LItalia in Giappone, Tokyo 2009
Speaker at ADBI-IEA Conference International Monetary and Financial
Architecture: Asian Perspective Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 2011
Speaker at Annual Meeting of Austrian National Bank, Vienna, 2011
Asia-Europe Economic Forum, Conference: G 20: completing the agenda;
Paris, January 2011
Speaker at ASEM Conference on Europe-Asia Inter-Regional Relations,
Brussels, 12-13th July 2010
Speaker at Italy-Japan Business Group, Tokyo 2009
Speaker, Euro Finance Week, Frankfurt 2008, 2009 and 2012
Speaker Harvard Asia Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2008

Publications
1. Books
Competitiveness in the European Economy (edited with P. Esposito), forthcoming
2013; under contract with Routledge
Macroeconomic imbalances and comparative advantages in the Euro Area;
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI); Brussels, 2012.
Rebalancing the Global Economy. Four Perspectives on the Future of the
International Monetary System (with Richard N. Cooper, Masahiro Kawai, Yongjun
Zhang); Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gterloh, 2010
Pour la Rpublique europenne (avec Christian Paul); Odile Jacob, Paris, 2008
Viva la Repubblica Europea!, Editore Marsilio, Venezia, 2008
Bundesrepublik Europa? Die demokratische Herausforderung und Europas Krise.
Vorwrts Verlag, Berlin, 2007 (Chinese translation:
)
Vive la Rpublique europenne; ditions de La Martinire, Paris, 2004
The European Republic. Reflections on the Political Economy of a Future
Constitution, The Federal Trust, London, 2003

Private Sector Involvement in the Euro. The Power of Ideas, Routledge, (with Daniela
Schwarzer) Routledge, London, England, 2002.
Monetary Stability in Europe, Routledge, London, England, 2002.
Exchange Rate Policies in Emerging Asian Countries, Routledge ; S. Collignon, J.
Pisany-Ferry and Y. Chul Park (ed.),London, England, 1999
Handbuch zur Europischen Whrungsunion; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn, 1998
(three editions).
European Monetary Policy, (editor) Cassel Academic, London, England, 1997.
Geldwertstabilitt fr Europa, Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gtersloh, Germany,
December 1996.
Europe's Monetary Future (Volume I), published by Pinter Publishers, London, 1994
The Monetary Economics of Europe (Volume II), with C. Johnson editors, published
by Pinter Publishers, London, 1994
Regionale Integration und Entwicklung in Ostafrika. Institut fr Afrikaforschung,
Hamburg, Germany, 1990
2. Articles and papers (peer reviewed *)
* European monetary union, competitiveness and nominal exchange rates. A
comment; Asian Economic Papers, (forthcoming 2013)
*How (not) to reform the Euro Areas economic governance; Global Policy
(forthcoming 2013)
*Macroeconomic imbalances and competitiveness in the Euro Area; Transfer:
European Review of Labour and Research, Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2013
Economic growth and competitiveness: a Franco-German tale; Imprint, Bertelsmann
Stiftung; September 2012
*European Sovereign Bailouts, Political Risk and the Economic Consequences of
Mrs. Merkel, (with Piero Esposito and Hanna Lierse), published as: RECON Working
Paper, Oslo and conditionally accepted by Journal of International Commerce,
Economics and Policy (JICEP))
*Europes Debt Crisis, Coordination Failure and International Effects. ADBI (Asian
Development Bank Institute) Working Paper Series, No. 370, July 2012 (also to be
published in an ADBI book)
*Fiscal Policy Rules and the Sustainability of Public Debt in Europe; International
Economic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2, May 2012

*Rebalancing the Global economy, 2012. In Global Policy; Volume 3, Issue 2, pages
154168, May 2012
The Governance of European Public Goods; in: Daniel Tarschys (ed.) The EU
Budget. What Should Go In? What Should Go Out? SIEPS (Swedish Institute for
European Policy Studies) 2011:3
*Die Europische Union als Republik. In: Europarecht; 2013 (an Italian translation is
to appear in a book on the Euro crisis edited by Thierry Vissol for editore Il Mulino.
The failure of the macroeconomic dialogue on wages (and how to fix it); In: Ral
Letelier and Agustn Jos Menndez (eds),The Sinews of European Peace Reconstituting the Democratic Legitimacy of the Socio-Economic Constitution of the
European Union; ARENA Report No 7/09 & RECON Report No 10. Oslo, December
2009.
*Policy Challenges for Euroland over the Next Decade. In: Revue dEconomie
financire, Paris 2009 (double publication in English and French)
*Why Europe is Not Becoming the Worlds Most Competitive Economy. The Lisbon
Strategy, Macroeconomic Stability and the Dilemma of Governance without
Governments; International Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 3, Nos. 1/2, 2008
*Three Sources of Legitimacy for European Fiscal Policy; in: International Political
Science Review,28.2: 155-184, 2007
*Adjusting the U.S. Current Account Deficit: What Role for the Dollar, Euro and
Yen? In: Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, Vol. 7(2) 2006; earlier version published
by Claves, Madrid 2005 (in Spanish).
*Democracy and Europes Crisis of Legitimacy, in: Intervention. Journal of
Economics, vol. 3.1, 2006
The End of the Stability Pact? In: International Economics and Economic Policy
(IEEP) 2004 Volume: 1, Pages: 15 - 19
*Is Europe going far enough? Reflections on the EU's Economic Governance. In:
Journal of European Public Policy, 2004 Vol. 11.5: 909-925
*Unemployment, Wage Developments and the European Policy Mix in Europe; in:
Empirica, 26:259-269, 1999
Theoretical models of fiscal policies in the Euroland The Lisbon Strategy,
macroeconomic stability and the dilemma of governance with governments, ARENA,
Recon Publication, Oslo
The failure of the macroeconomic dialogue on wages (and how to fix it), ARENA,
Recon Publication, Oslo
The European Republic: Utopia or Logical Necessity? ARENA, Recon Publication,
Oslo

Europas Sozialdemokratie in der Sackgasse. In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte

(07/08.2009). La socialdemocrazia opportunista. In: Mondoperaio (05.2009).
Die Moral des Geldes und die Zukunft des europischen Kapitalismus; In: Vorgnge
Heft. 2/2009, S. 4-22
Social Democracy after the Financial Crisis, in: Social Europe, 2009, Vol. 4 Issue 1
Warum Europa nicht zusammenfindet. In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte
Dezember 2008
Europa reformieren - Demokratie wagen; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Internationale
Politikanalyse, Reihe Europische Politik, April 2006
"Nouvelle" Stratgie de Lisbonne, pacte de stabilit et de croissance et dmocratie
europenne. In : Le banquet No 22, 2005.
Fiscal Policy and Democracy; Vienna, 2004 ; published as NB Discussion paper
No. 4, November 2004
Le fdralisme budgtaire dans la zone euro; in. Maxime Lefebvre (ed.), 2004. Quel
Budget Europen lHorizon 2013 ? Moyens et politiques dune Union largie. Ifri,
Paris
Wirtschaftliche Governance in Europa; in: federalismi ((www.federalismi.it))
2004
Un gouvernement pour une Rpublique europenne; La Lettre de Confrontations
Juin-juillet 2002 : Lettre n56
Reflections on Europes Economic Constitution. Paper delivered to the InterAction
Council. Paris, 11-12 April, 2002. (also translated into Japanese)
Download from: ww.stefancollignon.de
Taking Europe at Face Value; On Values and Currencies. Perspectives from Five
Continents. In: Zeitschrift fr Kulturaustausch; May 2001
I vantaggi dell'UEM per l'economia europea; in: Il Giornale Telematico della
Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino, conference proceedings to "La moneta unica europea:
perch, come e quali prospettive", Pesaro, Italy, 18 July 1997
The Monetary Dimension of European Unemployment, written evidence to the SubCommittee A of the House of Lords' European Committee on Growth,
Competitiveness and Employment in the Community, 1994
Progressive Participation or two-speed Europe?; in: The Economist Intelligence
Unit, European Trends, no. 4, Dec. 1990
Single currency or common currency?; in: The Economist Intelligence Unit,
European Trends no.3, Sept. 1990

L'cu moderne et son rle dans le systme montaire europen; in: Aria Crations,
Histoire de l'cu europen, Paris, France (rotopresse s.a.) 1990
The Commercial Use of the Ecu: a victim of EMS-success or an infant industry?; in:
EBA Newsletter, Oct. 1989
The Consequences of European Monetary Union for Eastern Europe; in: De Pecunia
Vol. II, no. 2/3, 1990
The Implications of German Monetary Integration on European Monetary Union; in:
De Pecunia, Vol. II, no. 1, 1990
Etre Europen: Essai sur l'identit europenne; in: La Revue du Groupe des BellesFeuilles, Paris, France, Automne 1991
3. Chapters in Books
Lconomie politique de lempathie ; Chapter in the proceedings of Colloque du 2
juin 2011 Cerisy-la-Salle (forthcoming)
The Preconditions of Social Europe and the Tasks of Social Democracy; in: Henning
Meyer (ed.), The Good Society, 2012 Palgrave
Private Union Bonds as an Exit from the Greek Drama; in: Karamouzis, N. and G.
Hardouvelis, 2011. From the international to the European and Greek crisis: What
will the future bring?, Livanis Editions, Athens (2011). [
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The Moral Economy of Money and the Future of European Capitalism; in Talani,
L.S., (ed.) (June 2010), The Global Crash: Towards a New Financial Regulatory
Regime? London: Palgrave
Tackling Europe's Legitimacy Crisis. A Republican Approach to the Governance of
the EMU; in: R. Caesar, W. Ksters, H. H. Kotz, D. Schwarzer, 2009. Governing the
Eurozone. Looking ahead after the First Decade; SWP Berlin
Why Europe needs a political union with full democracy. in: J. Baquero Cruz & C.
Closa Montero (eds.) 2009. European Integration from Rome to Berlin: 1957-2007.
History, Law and Politics. European policy. No. 39; P.I.E. Peter Lang, Brussels
The Lisbon Strategy, Macroeconomic Stability and the Dilemma of Governance with
Governments (Or why Europe is not becoming the worlds most dynamic economy. in:
L. S. Talani (ed.) 2009. The future of EMU; Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills
Sovereignty, Democracy and the Euro. in: G. Bishop, W. Buiter, B. Donnelly, W.
Hutton (eds.) 2009. 10 years of the Euro: new perspectives for Britain; John Stevens,
London

The EU and Global Competition: A Comparative View. in: K. Duffek, E. Frschl, T.

Mrschel, R. Cuperus (eds.) 2006. The European Union, a Global Player? Wien: LIT
Verlag
Preface. In: Guy Verhofstadt. 2006. The United States of Europe. The Federal Trust,
London
Globalisierung, Regionalismus und die politische konomie von Ideologien. In: B.
Fritz und K. Hujo, 2005. konomie unter den Bedingungen Lateinamerikas;
(Festschrift fr Manfred Nitsch) Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft
Unternehmen und Banken auf dem Weg zur Whrungsunion: Die Association for the
Monetary Union of Europe als Motor eines Transnationalen Konsenses; (mit
Daniela Schwarzer) in: R. Eising/B. Kohler-Koch (Hrsg.). Interessenpolitik in
Europa; Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2005
Europa am Ende? - Wirtschaftsverfassung und demokratisches Defizit; in: Christa
Randzio-Plath (Hrg): Wege aus der Krise - Pldoyer fr eine europische
Wachstums- und Investitionsoffensive. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2004
Three Year into the Euro: the next step for Europe. In: Scharrer, H.-E. and R. Caesar
(eds.), European Economic and Monetary Union: An Initial Assessment, Nomos
Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2002.
Human Rights and the Economy in Burma; in: Robert Taylor, Burma, Political
Economy under Military Rule, C. Hurst & Co, London, 2001
Deficits, Debts and the Stability Pact; in: Paul J.J. Welfens (ed.): European Monetary
Union. Transition, International Impact and Policy Options; Springer Verlag Berlin
1997
Monetary Integration between economies with different financial strucures; in: Which
way ahead for Financial Markets: The German or the Anglo-American Model,
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Elsevier Science, US, 1998
Die EWU und ihre internationale Bedeutung; in: Europische Whrungsunion und
Kapitalmrkte, Friedrich Heinemann und Michael Schrder (Hrsg.), Nomos-Verlag
Baden-Baden, Germany, 1997
Standort DM - ber den Zusammenhang von Wettbewerbsfhigkeit und
Wechselkursen; in: Uwer Jens (Hrsg.) "Langfristige Strukturprobleme der deutschen
Wirschaft", Nomos-Verlag Baden-Baden, Germany, 1994
On widening the EMS to Central and Eastern Europe; in: The Monetary Economics
of Europe - causes of the EMS crisis, edited by Ch. Johnson and S. Collignon, Pinter
Publishers, London, England, 1994
Droits de l'homme, investissement et developpement africain; in: Ph. Hugon, S.
Quiers Valette, G. Pourcet: Instabilits africains, Presse Universitaire de France,
Paris, France, 1994

From Stabilization to Growth: Reconsidering Trade and Foreign Investment; in:

Hansjrg Herr, Silke Tober and Andreas Westphal (ed.): Macroeconomic Problems of
Transformation - Stabilization Policies and Economic Restructuring, Edward Elgar
Publishing Ltd., Aldershot 1994
An Ecu Zone for Central and Eastern Europe: a supportive framework for
convergence; in: Ray Barrell (ed): Economic Convergence and Monetary Union in
Europe, London, England, 1992
ber das Auslsen von Wachstumsprozessen in Osteuropa; in: Jrgen Backhaus
(Hg.): Systemwandel und Reform in stlichen Wirtschaften; Metropolis Verlag,
Marburg, Germany, 1991
The future of the Ecu; With Bertrand de Maigret: in: Christopher Johnson: Ecu - The
currency of Europe, London, England, 1991
Probleme des bergangs von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft; in: M. Heine (et alt.):
Die Zukunft der DDR-Wirtschaft, Reinbek, Germany, 1990
Economic transformation and the integration of Central and Eastern Europe in the
European Community; in: W. Gebauer (Ed.): Foundations of European Central Bank
policy. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 1993
Asymmetrie und Reversibilitt im EWS: Bedroht die deutsche Einheit die
Ankerfunktion der DM?; in: A. Westphal et alteri (Hg.), Wirtschaftpolitische
Konsequenzen der deutschen Vereinigung, Campus Verlag Frankfurt/New York 1991
The Economic Consequences of a Single European Currency on Centre-Periphery
Relations within the European Community. in: Ernst & Young, A strategy for the Ecu,
Kogan Page, London, England, 1990
From EMS to EMU: The Prospects for Monetary Union; in: The Economist
Intelligence Unit, European Community. Economic structure and analysis. Vol.II
1991
4. Briefing Papers for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the
European Parliament (all downloadable from www.stefancollignon.eu)

Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union. December 2012

ECB Interventions, OMT and the Bankruptcy of the No-Bailout Principle.

October 2012

Unconventional Monetary Policy Measures: A Comparison of the ECB, FED

and BoE. June 2012 .

Competitiveness and Excessive Imbalances: A Balance Sheet Approach. April

2012 .

The ECB, the ESM and Stability Bonds: a way out of the crisis. December
2011.

European Monetary Policy under Jean-Claude Trichet. September 2011.

Debt Restructuring is No Free Lunch. June 2011

Eurobonds: The financial equivalent of the single Currency. March 2011

How to Avoid Currency Wars. Nov. 2010

Democratic Surveillance or Bureaucratic Suppression of National Sovereignty

in the European Union? Ideas on the Multilateral Surveillance Regulation.
(09.09.2010)

Europe's economic government or how to use the Treaty for more effective
economic coordination in the euro area? (08.06.2010).

How to Handle Global Imbalances: a Role for European Monetary

Cooperation with Asia. March 2010.

Bubbly economics. Nov 2009.

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