CURRICULUM VITAE

1940    Born on April 16 in Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

1959-62                    Internship and vocational education at Siemens AG,Berlin,Nuremberg,CologneandMunich

1962    Industriekaufmann

1962-67          Study of Economics,UniversityofCologneandSaarlandUniversity

1967   Diplom-Volkswirt,SaarlandUniversity

1967-72          Member of research staff, German Expert Council

1972-79                    Research assistant and lecturer, Department of Economics,SaarlandUniversity

1974    Dr rer.pol. in Economics (summa cum laude),SaarlandUniversity

1979-2008      Chair for Economics, Freie Universität Berlin

1992-94                    Member of the Expert Commission on Housing, reporting to the Federal Government

1994-2000                Member of the Scientific Council at the Institute of Ecological and Regional Development,Dresden(IOER)

1999-2006                Jean Monnet Chair for European Economic Policy, Freie Universität Berlin

2002-04                    Member of the Expert Commission on Building Societies, reporting to the Federal Government

2004-13                    Director of the Berlin Programme ‘Master of European Studies’ (www.europawissenschaften-berlin.de)

 

Fellowships and Visiting Professorships

1979    Visiting Professor,UniversityofTrier, Department of Economics

1988    LondonSchool of Economics, Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines

1991-92         UniversityofPhiladelphia,WhartonSchool, Real Estate Department

1997   UniversityofPittsburgh, European Union Centre

2001   UniversityofUppsala, Institute for Housing Research, Gävle

2003-13          Visiting Professor, University of Birmingham, Department of Economics

2005-6 University of Trento, Department of Economics

Publications (selection)

Books

 

Monetary Integration inEurope. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke 2007, 160pp. 2nd edition: Monetary Integration in Europe – The European Monetary Union after the Financial Crisis. Published by Springer Nature, also as eBook, 2017, 246pp.

Volkswirtschaftslehre. Eine Einführung in das ökonomische Denken. Springer: Heidelberg 2005, 187pp.

Stabilitätspolitik. Theorie, Strategie und europäische Perspektive. Springer: Heidelberg 1997, 316pp.

Risikoübertragung als Mittel der Vermögenspolitik. Entscheidungsprobleme und gesamtwirtschaftliche Wirkungen. Heymanns: Köln 1975, 114pp.

 

Articles

 

“The ECB’s Unconventional Monetary Policy” In: Manuel Benazic et al. (eds), The EU Economic Environment Post-Crisis: Policies, Institutions and Mechanisms. Juraj Dobrila University of Pula 2016, 127-38 (co-author Anna Stöppel)

“External Imbalances in the European Monetary Union: The Case for Keynesian Income Policy” In: Jens Hölscher (ed.), Poland and the Eurozone. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2014, 78-107

„Building New Monetary Institutions in the EMU as a Response to the Financial Crisis: A Keynesian Perspective” In: Jens Hölscher and Matthias Klaes (eds), Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace: A Reappraisal. SCEME Studies in Economic Methodology. London: Pickering&Chatto 2014, 117-28

„Reale Konvergenz in der Europäischen Währungsunion“ In: Marina Grusevaja et al. (eds), Quo vadis Wirtschaftspolitik? Festschrift für Norbert Eickhof. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang 2008, 355-69

 

„The Economic and Monetary Union and the Maastricht Assignment“ In: Horst Tomann (ed.), Die Rolle der europäischen Institutionen in der Wirtschaftspolitik. Europäische Schriften zu Staat und Wirtschaft, Band 20. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2006, 97-107

 “Die Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank ist besser als ihr Ruf” Orientierungen zur Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik 104 (2005)

 “The Role of Institutions in Transition Economies - A Survey of the Issues” In: Nora Fuhrmann et al.(eds), Gegen den Strich. Ökonomische Theorie und politische Regulierung. Festschrift für Jörg Glombowski. München: Hampp 2003, 187-97

 „Europäische Integration und Wandel des wirtschaftspolitischen Regimes“ Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Wirtschaftspolitik nach dem Ende der Bretton-Woods-Ära. 2002 (1), 49–64

 „The Return of the Habsburgs – Reflections on the Role of Institutions in Transition Economies” Keynote Address in: Jens Hölscher (ed.) Financial Turbulence and Capital Markets in Transition Countries, Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press 2000, 3-12

 "Die Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union aus ökonomischer Sicht" In: Irmgard Nübler, Harald Trabold (eds), Herausforderungen an die Wirtschaftspolitik an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Lutz Hoffmann. Berlin: Duncker&Humblot 1999, p. 177-96

 "Europäische Währungsunion und Lohnpolitik" Hamburger Jahrbuch für Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik, 43. Jahr, Veröffentlichung des HWWA-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung-Hamburg 1998, 195-214 (co-author: Anke Jacobsen)

 “Options to Resolve the Bad-Asset-Problem” In: Stephen F. Frowen, Jens Hoelscher (eds), The German Currency Union of 1990 - A Critical Assessment.London: Macmillan 1997, 101–115

 

“IsEuropean Optimum Currency Area?” Discussion Papers in German Studies, No. IGS 97/18. University of Birmingham, Institute for German Studies 1997

 

Editorships

 

Studies in Economic Transition. Palgrave Macmillan Series, since 1998 (co-editor: Jens Hölscher) – The series includes

-       Welfare States in Transition. East and West (1999)

-       Money, Development and Economic Transformation. Selected Essays by Hajo Riese (2004)

-       Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economics (2016) 

Globalization of Capital Markets and Monetary Policy. (Co-editor:Jens Hölscher). Anglo-German Foundation Series, Palgrave-Macmillan 2005 

Die Rolle der europäischen Institutionen in der Wirtschaftspolitik. Europäische Schriften zu Staat und Wirtschaft, Band 20. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2006 

Bedingungen ökonomischer Entwicklung in Zentralosteuropa (Conditions of Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe). (5 volumes, co-editors: Jens Hölscher, Anke Jacobsen, Hans Weisfeld) Marburg: Metropolis 1993-96