Peter Claeys

Peter Claeys is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Comillas Pontifical University, affiliated with the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ICAI) and the Institute for Research in Technology (IIT). He also holds visiting professor positions at the Department of European Economic Studies at the College of Europe and at Universiteit Gent (Ghent University).

His research centers on international macroeconomics and public economics, with a focus on fiscal policy, fiscal federalism, fiscal consolidation, and the interaction between monetary and fiscal policies. He employs advanced econometric modeling techniques to analyze macroeconomic effects of public spending and budgetary spillovers.

His recent publications reflect a sustained interest in fiscal sustainability, sovereign debt, and financial linkages between government debt and banking systems. These works often involve collaboration with European policy institutions and contribute to ongoing debates in fiscal governance.

• Marie Curie fellowship

Peter Claeys has advised on fiscal policy projects for the European Commission, ECB, OECD, European Parliament, and the governments of Spain and Sweden. He teaches in the Erasmus Mundus Master’s program on Globalization and European Integration and is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University. He has not formally listed any graduate students in the provided texts.

He is actively involved in interdisciplinary research on socioeconomic transformations and contributes to policy-relevant technical reports and working papers through collaborations with institutions like SUERF. His work bridges academic research and real-world policy applications in European and international economic governance.