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Current positions and affiliations

Visiting Professor, Chair of Public Finance, Department of Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Economics, TUM Munich University of Technology
Research Affiliate, CESifo Munich
Faculty and Lecturer, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Max Planck Institute Munich

Previous positions and fellowships

Publications

Books

Empirische Ökonomie. Eine Einführung in Methoden und Anwendungen, Springer textbook: forthcoming (with John Komlos).

Business Cycles in the Contemporary World: Description, Causes, Aggregation, and Synchronization, Physica-Springer, Heidelberg, New York, 2002.

Articles in refereed journals

Cycles, Shocks, and Sentiment, forthcoming in Région et Développement, 2010 (with Malte Heyne).

Induced Civic Pride and Integration, forthcoming in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009 (with Malte Heyne and Wolfgang Maennig).

The Savings-Inflation Puzzle, Applied Economics Letters 9, 615-617, 2009 (with Burkhard Heer).

Hidden Value: Wohlfahrtsökonomische Effekte internationaler Sportgroßveranstaltungen, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch) 127, 511-529, 2007 (with Malte Heyne).

Effects of Inflation on Wealth Distribution: Do stock market participation fees and capital income taxation matter?, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 277-303, 2007 (with Burkhard Heer).

Towards a European Economics of Economics: Monitoring a Decade of Top Research and Providing Some Explanation, Scientometrics 66, 579-612, 2006 (with Stephane Ghio and Martin Steininger).

Beauty in the Classroom: Are German Students Less Blinded? Putative Pedagogical Productivity due to Professors' Pulchritude: Peculiar or Pervasive?, Applied Economics 38, 231-238, 2006.

Managerial Efficiency in German Top League Soccer: An Econometric Analysis of Club Performances on and off the Pitch, German Economic Review 6, 485-506, 2005 (with Markus Kern).

Some New Results on Industrial Sector Mode-Locking and Business Cycle Formation, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 9, 1-33, 2005 (with Ulrich Woitek).

Elfenbeinligen und ihre Erfassung: Ein Kommentar und eine neuerliche Messung der Publikationstätigkeit der Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute im deutschsprachigen Raum: 1989-2003, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 6, 409-420, 2005 (with Martin Steininger).

Business Cycles and Comovement in Mediterranean Economies: A National and Area-wide Perspective, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 40, 7-28, 2004 (with Ulrich Woitek).

A Note on Death Penalty Executions and Business Cycles in U.S. Federal States: Is there any nexus?, Economics Bulletin 11, 1-9, 2004.

Are Procyclical Lumpiness and Asymmetry in Capital Adjustment Dateless Phenomena? The Case of Firms in German Industrialization: 1880-1913, Applied Economics Letters 10, 575-579, 2003.

Modeling the Synchronization of Sectoral Investment Cycles on the Base of Informational Externalities, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 14, 35-45, 2003.

Publications Académiques dans les Revues Internationales d'Économie: Existe-t-il une Dimension Régionale? (Academic Publications in International Economic Reviews: Is there a regional dimension?), Économies et Sociétés W7, 633-670, 2003 (with Stephane Ghio).

National and Supranational Business Cycles (1960-2000): A multivariate description of central G7 and EURO15 NIPA aggregates, ifo Studien 48, 481-511, 2002.

Can Herding Explain Cyclic Comovement?, International Game Theory Review 4, 33-51, 2001.

Business Cycle Dynamics in a Neural Net Framework, International Journal of Computer Research 10, 201-222, 2000 (with Guido Fioretti).

Chapters in books

Die intangiblen Effekte der Fußball-WM 2006 in Deutschland. Eine Bewertung mit der Contingent-Valuation-Methode, in A. Spellerberg, H. H. Topp, S. Bogusch, and C. West (eds.), Organisation und Folgewirkungen von Großveranstaltungen, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden, forthcoming (with Malte Heyne).

Wieviel ist den Deutschen die Ausrichtung der FIFA-WM 2006 wert und warum? Eine repräsentative Studie auf Grundlage der Contingent-Valuation-Methode, in M.-L. Klein and M. Kurscheidt (eds.), Neue Perspektiven Ökonomischer Sportforschung, Hofmann Verlag, Schorndorf, 119-137,2007 (with Malte Heyne).

Government Debt and the Portfolios of the Rich, in J. Micklewright and S. Jenkins (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-examined, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 268-283, 2007 (with Robert K. von Weizsäcker).

Exzessive Budgetdefizite und die institutionelle Ausgestaltung der EU-Haushaltspolitik, in V. Ulrich and W. Ried (eds.), Effizienz, Qualität und Nachhaltigkeit im Gesundheitswesen - Theorie und Politik öffentlichen Handelns, insbesondere in der Krankenversicherung, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 3-22, 2007 (with Christian Feilcke and Robert K. von Weizsäcker).

Vom Wert des Geldes (On the Value of Money), in U. Nembach (ed.), Informationes Theologiae Europae - Internationales Ökumenisches Jahrbuch für Theologie, 14. Jahrgang 2005, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 161-175, 2007 (with Robert K. von Weizsücker).

Institutional Determinants of Public Debt: A Political Economy Perspective, in J. C. Tremmel (ed.), Handbook of Intergenerational Justice, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 170-184, 2006 (with Robert K. von Weizsäcker).

Ineffizienz im deutschen Bildungsföderalismus, in N. Wohlgemuth (ed.), Arbeit, Humankapital und Wirtschaftspolitik, Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften Heft 547, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 247-278, 2006 (with Carolin Amann and Robert K. von Weizsäcker).

The German Business Cycle and the Global Double Dip, in C. Hausen, M. Resinek, N. Schürmann, and M. H. Stierle (eds.), Determinants of Growth and Business Cycles: Theory, Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications, VWF Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Berlin, 135-153, 2003.

Policy contributions and didactics

Naturkatastrophen: Pflichtversicherung oder staatliches Handeln?, WISU Das Wirtschaftsstudium 8-9/06, 1111-1116, 2006 (with Christian Feilcke and Robert K. von Weizsäcker)

Institutional Determinants of Public Debt: A Political Economy Perspective, Intergenerational Justice Review 3, 32-33, 2005 (with Robert K. von Weizsäcker).

Effizienz und Produktivität von wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten in Deutschland: Eine Analyse anhand von wissenschaftlichen Publikationsaktivitäten an Hochschulen, Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung (GfR) Seminarbericht 47, 45-73, 2004 (with Martin Steininger).

Die Examensklausur aus der Volkswirtschaftslehre, WISU Das Wirtschaftsstudium 11/03, 1425-1428, 2003.

RAE Rankings and Top Journals, Royal Economic Society Newsletter, October issue, 5-6, 2002 (with Ulrich Woitek).

Working Papers

Induced Civic Pride and Integration (with Malte Heyne and Wolfgang Maennig): CESifo WP #2582

Is the Quantity Theory of Money valid and the New Keynesians are wrong? (with Claude Hillinger): : MucEc DP #2008-22

"Bracket Creep" and its Effects on Income Distribution (with Burkhard Heer): Abstract

Relative Wealth, Risk Taking, and Ponzi Games (with Robert K. von Weizsäcker): Abstract

Blacksburg is not Palo Alto. Shooting Rampages and Maintenance of Campus Safety: An Incomplete Contracts Perspective (with Robert K. von Weizsäcker): Abstract

Digital Piracy in Europe: Some first micro-evidence based on a German survey (with Philipp Mandel): Abstract

Teaching Competition in Professional Sports Leagues Revisited. A Classroom Exercise for Seniors and Graduate Students (with Andreas Olie): Abstract

A Market's Reward Scheme and the Transitory Success of Managerial Change (with Stefan Wagner)

To be or not to be of Maxentropic Type? An Appraisal of Parametric Spectral Analysis in Econometrics

Media Coverage

Radio and TV

CNBC Europe

Deutschlandradio Kultur: Interview: Zusammenhang von Stundenzahl und Lernerfolg (on resource effects & education policy); MP3 (3.9 MB), 13.08.2008

afk M94.5: Interview: Subprime-Krise (on subprime crisis); MP3 (3.9 MB), 09.10.2008

Press