Erdal Yalcin is Professor of International Economics at the University of Applied Sciences Constance (HTWG). He has been the deputy director of the ifo Center for International Economics, ifo Institute for almost a decade, ending in 2018. He studied international economics at the University of Tuebingen and at the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He holds a doctoral degree in economics from Tuebingen University for his thesis on the role of uncertainty in