Timm Schärfke
Timm Schärfke
Room: Room LG 6.115
- Phone number: +499115302-95203
- Email: timm.schaerfke@fau.de
Office hours
Office hours: By Appointment
Responsibilities: Tutorial Wirtschaft und Staat, Learning Agreements
Timm Schärfke joined the Chair of Public Finance in September 2023. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Economics from LMU Munich. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Macroeconomics and at the ifo Institut. In his master’s thesis, he covered the European Central Bank’s reaction to sovereign debt crises, implementing the new anti-fragmentation instrument in a calibrated two-country New Keynesian DSGE model. His current research focuses on government debt sustainability, debt limits, and fiscal discipline.