Stefan Homburg (born March 10, 1961) is a German professor of

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

. He was the director of the Institute of Public Finance at the

University of Hannover Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover (german: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational Sc ...

, Lower Saxony, Germany until 2021. Outside academia he is best known for his controversial statements regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Homburg studied economics, philosophy, and mathematics at the

Cologne University The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

, where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1985, followed by a doctoral degree in 1987. Subsequently, he was Professor of Economics at

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

and

University of Magdeburg The Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg () (''OvGU'') was founded in 1993, making it one of the youngest universities in Germany. The university is located in Magdeburg, the Capital city of Saxony-Anhalt and has about 13.000 students in nine ...

, before he moved to Hannover. Homburg's research focuses on macroeconomics and public finance. He has co-authored a textbook in macroeconomics. Other publications address topics in monetary policy, social security, tax law, and business taxation. Homburg served as a member of several policy committees, including the Advisory Council at the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Federal Constitutional Commission (''Bundesstaatskommission''), and the Federal Government's Council for Sustainable Developments (''RNE''). Between 1999 and 2007, he acted as Dean of Hannover's School of Economics and Management. From 1996 until 2003, he was editor of journals of the German Economic Association (''Verein für Socialpolitik''). In 2020 Homburg voiced criticism of the German government’s response to COVID-19 on Twitter, YouTube, and in opinion pieces for the newspaper

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. In April 2020 he argued against a lockdown in Germany and incorrectly predicted a little more than 3,000 COVID-19 related deaths in Germany. Homburg has claimed without proof that there will be involuntary COVID-19 vaccinations in Germany and stated that the

Robert Koch Institute The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is a German federal government agency and research institute responsible for disease control and prevention. It is located in Berlin and Wernigerode. As an upper federal agency, it is subordinate to the Federal ...

's statistics regarding the COVID-19 epidemic in Germany are "all lies". Several economists, statisticians, and other academics have criticised Homburg's analysis as sloppy and methodologically flawed. Homburg has repeatedly compared the German government’s COVID-19 containment measures to fascism and the rise of the Nazis in 1933, which sparked public criticism. The

has called this comparison "intolerable" and has distanced itself from Homburg.

Selected publications

''A Study in Monetary Macroeconomics''
Oxford University Press 2017, .

7th ed. Vahlen 2015, . * Compulsory Savings in the Welfare State

2000, pp. 233–239. *Interest and Growth in an Economy with Land

1991, pp. 450–459. * Coping With Rational Prodigals

2006, pp. 47–58. * Explaining the Rise and Decline of the Dolla

1990, pp. 53–68 (mit J. Hoffmann). * Property Taxes and Dynamic Efficiency: A Correction

2014, pp. 327–328. * The Efficiency of Unfunded Pension Schemes

1990, pp. 640–647. * Overaccumulation, Public Debt and the Importance of Land

2014, pp. 411–435. * Competition and Co-ordination in International Capital Income Taxation

1999, pp. 1–17. * What Caused the Great Recession

2015, pp. 1–12.Stefan Homburg's publication list
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