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Marko Köthenbürger

Marko Köthenbürger is Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich, and Research Director at CESifo.

Titles by This Editor

Privatization Experiences in the European Union

Edited by Marko Köthenbürger, Hans-Werner Sinn and John Whalley

The trend toward privatization, which began with privatization experiments in the UK under Margaret Thatcher and the deregulation of the telecommunications sector in the United States, has attracted the attention of policymakers over the past two decades. Privatization is broadly supported by most academic economists, but the results of actual privatization efforts seem mixed. In the UK, for example, telecom rates fell sharply after privatization, but privatized rail service was widely perceived to have declined dramatically in quality.

European Monetary Integration

Edited by Hans-Werner Sinn, Mika Widgrén and Marko Köthenbürger

The success of European monetary integration—called by the editors of this CESifo volume "one of the most far-reaching, real world experiments in monetary policy to date"—is not assured. Policy makers have been forced to deal with challenges posed by formulating a uniform monetary policy for countries with asymmetric business cycles and economies in different stages of development as well as with the fiscal and financial implications of a unified currency.