Eijffinger goes for three months to Harvard

Tilburg professor of financial economics, Sylvester Eijffinger, will be working from March to June 2013 as a guest scientist at Harvard University.

Eijffinger is no stranger at Harvard. In 2003 and 2008 he worked there as a visiting professor, but this time he goes there as a visiting scholar. That means he will not give lectures but present papers at seminars to students and colleagues.

Eijffinger also goes to Harvard to do research for a book about the euro crisis. “It is an analytical book; there are enough journalistic books about the crisis. I have witnessed the crisis from within while visiting the European Central Bank and the European Parliament. It is not a financial and economic crisis but a political-institutional one. A small manageable problem as Greece got completely out of hand because of mismanagement. There is a political ineptitude and lack of good economic institutions in Europe. We need a political union, which also has a union of banks. I know there are opponents of such a political union, but we need to move either forward or backward. You can’t be half pregnant.”