Michael C. Burda

{{Short description|American economist}}

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| caption = Burda in 2016

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|04|04}}

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| nationality = American

| institution = Humboldt University of Berlin

| field = Macroeconomics
Labor economics

| alma_mater = {{nowrap|Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD)}}

| doctoral_advisor = Jeffrey Sachs{{cite web |url= https://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/en/professuren/vwl/wtm2/mitarbeiter-en/prof-michael-burda-phd/cv_burdajan2016.pdf |title= CV |last= Burda |first= Michael C. |date= |website= |publisher= Humboldt University of Berlin |access-date= 9 March 2017 |quote= |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170204003304/https://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/en/professuren/vwl/wtm2/mitarbeiter-en/prof-michael-burda-phd/cv_burdajan2016.pdf |archive-date= 4 February 2017 |url-status= dead }}
Olivier Blanchard

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| awards = Gossen Prize (1998)

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Michael Christopher Burda (born April 4, 1959) is an American macroeconomist and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iza.org/person/71/michael-c-burda|title=Michael C. Burda | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics|website=www.iza.org}}

Since 1993 he has been director of the Institute for Economic Theory II and since 2007 visiting professor at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT). He has also taught at Berkeley and INSEAD. In 1998, Burda received the Gossen Prize of the German Verein für Socialpolitik. He is research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and a fellow of the European Economic Association.

Burda received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. (1987) at Harvard University and is a fluent speaker of German. His research is primarily in macroeconomics, labor economics and issues of European integration.

In 2009, Burda and Charles Wyplosz published the 5th edition of their textbook Macroeconomics: A European Text, Oxford University Press, which has been translated into twelve other languages. Also, he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.

He was elected fellow of the European Economic Association.{{Cite web|title=Fellows {{!}} EEA|url=https://www.eeassoc.org/fellows|access-date=2021-02-26|website=www.eeassoc.org}}