An economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She served on the German government's Council of Economic Experts from 2022 to 2026. She has argued that the European Union needs a genuine supranational company form—one registration, one set of employment rules for cross-border hires, one VAT return, one insolvency procedure and a common corporate-tax base—and that a coalition of willing member states should press ahead outside the unanimity trap if the full bloc cannot agree.
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