MCEPS-Monarch Center For Economic Policy Studies

Dr. Koumparoulis, Director of MCEPS

MCEPS is the economic policy research arm of the department of Economics at UGSM-Monarch Business School Switzerland. Our team of faculty and research associates work across a broad range of critical perspectives of post-Keynesian, neo-classical, classical and institutionalist schools of thought. Through its activity, MCEPS aspires to focus the public economics debate on the role government can and should play in the real productive economy – that of business, management, and labor – to raise living standards, create economic security, and attain full employment. MCEPS’s leadership and participants also regularly present testimony and papers before international bodies, state and local public commissions and academic conferences.

The Monarch Centre for Economic Policy Studies (MCEPS) is a nonpartisan economic policy research centre that unites economic talent from the faculty of Monarch Business School along with special invited guests. MCEPS’s mission is to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people’s lives. In order for citizens to effectively exercise their voices in a democracy, they should be informed about the problems and choices that they face. MCEPS is committed to presenting issues in an accurate and understandable manner, so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options.

In addition, MCEPS’s goal is to improve long-term economic policy. Researchers advise and influence policymakers. Enlightened policy can make a vast difference in the quality of millions of lives. Consider the difference in the economic circumstances of people living in North and South Korea, or the contrast between East and West Germany before unification. The gap in the standard of living in those cases is clearly enormous, and the most obvious cause is the presence or absence of the market system and enlightened economic policies. Economic policies can similarly promote or hamper economic growth. Researchers examine the impact of alternative economic policies to inform policymakers of the consequences of their decisions.