German government sacks US-based economic expert Malmendier

NAMPA / DPA

2026-03-01

Berlin (dpa) - The German Council of Economic Experts expressed "surprise and the greatest regret" on Sunday at the decision by the government not to extend the mandate of one of its five members. According to a report this week in the Handelsblatt business daily, there is opposition within Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition government to the reappointment of Ulrike Malmendier, a professor at the University of California in Berkeley and an exp......

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