Since 2024 Alexander Ludwig is professor for public macroeconomics at European University Institute (EUI, Florence). Alexander is on leave from Goethe University Frankfurt, where he has been Professor for Public Finance and Macroeconomic Dynamics since 2014.
Alexander is spokesperson of DFG research unit on Macroeconomic Implications of Intra-Household Decision Making and principal investigator in EU Horizon 2022 project SUSTAINWELL – Sustainable Welfare: Rethinking the roles of Family, Market and State. Alexander is member as well as co-founder of the Frankfurt Quantitative Macro Group (FQMG) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Alexander is also director of ICIR and affiliated with the following institutions: SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt; CMR, University of Cologne; MEA, Munich; Netspar and ZEW, University of Mannheim.
Until 2021 Alexander participated in the DFG priority program 1578 on Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance and was project leader of the Norface DIAL project “Trends in Inequality: Sources and Policy”. Alexander is Editorial Board Member at the Journal of Pension Economics & Finance and at the Journal of Demographic Economics. Alexander's research interests are in the fields of dynamic macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents, public finance, demographic and computational economics.