Dr. oec. Ognian Hishow

Dr. oec. Ognian Hishow


Research Division: EU Integration
Senior Associate

ognian.hishow(at)swp-berlin.org

2012 Visiting Professor, University of Rochester, NY, USA

2008 Visiting Professor, University of Rochester, NY, USA

2006/2007 Lecturer at the Institute for Eastern European research - Free University, Berlin

1999-2000 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles

1990-1992 Visiting Scholar with the Department of Economics, University of Passau, Germany

1984-1990 Senior Researcher, Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Areas of Expertise:

Economic policy, monetary and fiscal aspects, economic growth, innovation, employment


Current focus:

Economic reform in the EU 15, economic integration of the accession countries, effects of the eastward extension and globalization on growth and employment in the old and new part of the European Union, the introduction of the common currency in the new member economies

SWP-Papers (selection):

The European Union's Debt Crisis

New Sustainability Regulations for Debt Reduction and Prevention

SWP Comments 2010/C 16, June 2010, 4 Pages

The Economic and Social Model of the Nordic EU Members

Growth, Innovation and Budgetary Discipline despite High Government Spending Rates

SWP Comments 2005/C 50, November 2005, 7 Pages

Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact

Flexible Deficit Rules but Strict Limits on Public Debt

SWP Comments 2005/C 05, February 2005, 4 Pages
with Peter Becker

The Lisbon Process - a Compromise between Ambitions and Reality

SWP Comments 2005/C 09, February 2005, 9 Pages

Pressure from the East European Member States

Tax Burdens, Locational Competition and Reform Requirements within the EU-25

SWP Comments 2004/C 24, September 2004, 4 Pages

Publications (selection):

What role do big corporations play in the economic well-being of the European Union?

A non-standard view of Eastern Europe

Global Labour University Column, Johannesburg, 05.12.2011, (online)

Germany’s Debt Brake: Pulling the EU Out of Its Debt Trap?

in: Intereconomics, Review of European Economic Policy, Volume 46, Issue 6, November/December 2011, pp. 327-331
with Iwona Mertin

Analysis of the Success and Failure in the Labour Markets of Selected EU Member-States

Macroeconomic Aspects

Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Working Papers, No. 176, September 2007, 23 pages

The Long Term Economic Performance in Germany

Chatham House Research Paper, May 2007, 25 pages

Ouyuan: Ouzhou jingji shoulian de zutuiqi haishi zhidongqi?

in: Shijie Jingji Wenhui / World Economic Papers, 2007, No. 1, Shanghai (Fudan University), pp. 69-80

Working papers (selection):

Curing Europe’s addiction to borrowing: Germany’s debt brake as a panacea?

Working Papers FG 1, 2011/Nr. 07, December 2011, 20 Pages
with Amy Medearis

Narrowing the Sustainability Gap of EU and US Health Care Spending

Working Papers FG 1, 2010/ 05, August 2010, 9 Pages

The economics of good governance, or what the South can learn from Eastern Europe

Working Papers FG 1, 2007/Nr. 16, August 2007, 21 Pages

Fiscal Federalism in the EMU

What makes the eurozone an OCA?

Working Papers FG 1, 2007/ Nr. 15, August 2007, 18 Pages

SWP Research Papers

Andrea Schmitz, Alexander Wolters
Political Protest in Central Asia

Potentials and Dynamics


Muriel Asseburg
Protest, Revolt and Regime Change in the Arab World

Actors, Challenges, Implications and Policy Options