Moritz Schularick is the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po and Kiel University. He is also a Fellow of the DFG-Excellence Cluster ECONtribute.

Schularick’s research interests span macrofinance, banking and financial stability, international economics, political economy, and economic history. His work is question-driven, aiming to offer innovative perspectives on central challenges facing society: the origins of financial instability and excessive risk-taking in financial markets, the link between rising debt and inequality, the effects of monetary policy on asset prices, and the past and future of globalization.

Schularick’s research has played a significant role in shaping economic policy. His collaboration with Òscar Jordà and Alan Taylor on credit cycles and financial stability provided the foundation for macro-prudential policies aimed at curbing credit booms. Their paper, Credit Booms Gone Bust, ranks among the most highly cited contributions to macroeconomics in the past decade.

Schularick is the recipient of the 2022 Leibniz-Prize, Germany's most important research prize awarded by the German Science Foundation. He also received the Gossen-Prize of the German Economic Association in 2018, awarded annually to a German economist whose work has gained international renown. That same year, he began a research project on housing markets, monetary policy and asset prices, funded by a grant from the European Research Council.

Schularick is an elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He regularly contributes to public policy debates in the media.