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"The market and streets are deserted...?" The German economy between shrinkage, migration and the hope for structural reforms. Christmas lecture with Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Lars P. Feld, December 11, 2024 About the event: With the Christmas lecture, we launched a new lecture format in 2023. Our director Lars P. Feld will address the most important financial policy developments of the year. The speaker: Lars P. Feld (*1966) has held the chair for economic policy and regulatory economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg since 2010 and is director of the Walter Eucken Institute. His research focuses on economic policy, public finance, new political economy and economic analysis of law. After studying economics at the University of Saarland, Lars P. Feld received his doctorate from the University of St. Gallen in 1999 and qualified as a professor there in 2002. From 2002 to 2006 he was Professor of Economics, in particular Finance, at the Philipps University of Marburg; from 2006 to 2010 he held the chair of the same name at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg. Lars P. Feld is a member of the Leopoldina (National Academy of Sciences), the Kronberger Circle and the Mont Pèlerin Society. On November 2, 2017, Lars Feld was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lucerne. Lars P. Feld has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance since 2003. In 2007, he was appointed as an expert for the Bundestag and Bundesrat Commission for the Modernization of Federal-State Financial Relations (Federalism Commission II) and advised on the new German debt brake. In January 2020, he was appointed as a scientific member of the Minimum Wage Commission. From 2011 to 2021, he was a member and in the final year chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts and represented it on the Independent Advisory Board of the Stability Council from 2013 to 2021. From February 2022 to November 2024, Lars P. Feld was the “Personal Representative of the Federal Minister of Finance for Macroeconomic Development”.