Prof. Dr. Carlos Alós-Ferrer

Prof. Alós-Ferrer studied mathematics at the University of Valencia (Spain) and obtained his doctoral degree in economics at the University of Alicante (Spain) in 1998. He completed his habilitation in economic theory at the University of Vienna in 2005. He held associate professor positions at the Universities of Salamanca (Spain) and Vienna before coming to the University of Konstanz in 2005 to take up the Chair of Economic Theory (Microeconomics). He has published articles in internationally renowned scientific journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory and the Journal of Mathematical Economics.

Research interests: the effects of bounded rationality on economic behaviour, the evolution of trading institutions, the mathematical foundations of sequential decision theory.

Chair of Economics - Microeconomic Theory

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Breyer

Prof. Breyer obtained his doctoral degree in 1978 and his habilitation in 1983, both at the University of Heidelberg. He served as an associate professor at the FernUniversität Hagen before taking up the Chair of Economic and Social Policy at the University of Konstanz in 1992. In addition, he is a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of the Economy and Labour. He has published numerous articles in international scientific journals and several advanced textbooks in public economics.

Research interests: health economics, social security economics, public choice.

Chair of Economics - Economic and Social Policy

Dr. Lisa Bruttel

Dr. Bruttel received her doctorate from the Humboldt University Berlin in 2007. In her PhD thesis, she experimentally analysed the influence of different factors on the stability of tacit collusion. In September 2008, she was appointed as a junior professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Konstanz.

Research interests: experimental economics, behavioural economics, industrial organisation.

Junior Professor for Behavioural Economics

Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann

Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann obtained his doctoral degree from Humboldt-University Berlin in 2003. Before taking up the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics in October 2007, he was co-head of the research project on "Unit Roots and Cointegration" within the Collaborative Research Centre "Economic Risk" (SFB 649) at HU Berlin. In addition, he taught at Mannheim University in 2006/2007 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute, Florence in 2003/2004. His research focuses on econometric methods for the analysis of (multiple) time series and related empirical applications. He has published in international journals including the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of Applied Econometrics.

Research interests: econometric analysis of cointegrated time series, structural VAR models, empirical macroeconomics and macroeconometrics, monetary transmission in Europe, forecasting methods.

Chair of Statistics and Econometrics

Dr. Gerald Eisenkopf

Gerald Eisenkopf took up the position of Junior Professor for Personnel Economics at the University of Konstanz in October 2010. Prior to this he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Applied Research in Economics (Prof. Fischbacher) and at the Thurgau Institute of Economics. He received his doctorate in 2007 after participating in the Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics and Finance at the University of Konstanz. He has a degree in Psychology (“Diplom”) from the FU Berlin and a Master’s degree (M.Litt) in Economics and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews. His teaching focuses on personnel and organisational economics.

Research interests: personnel and organisational economics, economics of education, behavioural economics.

Junior Professor for Personnel Economics

Prof. Dr. Florian Englmaier

Prof. Florian Englmaier studied economics at the University of Munich (LMU) and obtained his doctoral degree in economics at the University of Munich (LMU) in 2005. He held a postdoctoral position at Harvard (joint appointment Economics Department (Oliver Hart) and HBS (George P. Baker)), a postdoctoral position at the University College London and has spent terms as a visiting scholar at the Stanford GSB and the Kellogg School of Management. Before joining the University of Konstanz in 2011 to take up the Chair of Organisational Economics, he held an assistant professorship (W1) in Organisational Economics at the University of Munich (LMU). He has published articles in internationally renowned scientific journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, or the International Journal of Industrial Economics. His research is mainly concerned with organisational economics and, in particular, with applications of behavioural concepts to problems in this field.

Research interests: organisational economics, contract theory, behavioural economics, industrial organisation

Chair of Business Administration, especially Corporate Policy

Prof. Dr. Urs Fischbacher

After his doctoral degree in mathematics at the University of Zurich in 1985, Urs Fischbacher worked as a software engineer in the industry and at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. In 1995, he moved to the University of Zurich as a scientific programmer and lecturer at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, where he received the vina legendi in economics in 2006. Since October 2007, he has a position as full professor at the University of Konstanz and is director of the Thurgau Institute of Economics in Kreuzlingen (Switzerland). His research focuses on the investigation of non-rational behaviour and non-selfish preferences, both experimentally and theoretically. In collaboration with neuroscientists, he also contributed to the new field of neuroeconomics, in which the biological foundations of human behaviour in economically relevant situations are investigated. Publications have appeared in journals such as Econometrica, Accounting Review, Nature and Science.

Research interest: experimental and behavioural economics, neuroeconomics, social preferences.

Chair of Applied Research in Economics

Prof. Dr. Guenter Franke

After completing his doctoral degree at the University of the Saarland (Saarbrücken), Prof. Franke taught finance at the Pennsylvania State University as a visiting associate professor. Then he finished his habilitation in Saarbrücken. He held his first chair in finance at the University of Giessen and then moved to the Chair of International Finance at the University of Konstanz. He coordinated the finance activities of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels, for more than ten years and taught several times at the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. He also headed the Center of Finance and Econometrics at the University of Konstanz.

Research interests: capital markets, in particular trade of credit default risks and option pricing; long-term portfolio decisions, risk management, international finance.

Chair of International Finance

Dr. Tim Friehe

Dr. Tim Friehe obtained his doctorate from the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen in May 2008. His appointment as a junior professor at the Department of Economics in Konstanz commenced in October 2008.

Research interests: law and economics.

Junior Professor for Economic Policy

Prof. Dr. Bernd Genser

Prof. Genser obtained his first degree from the Graz University of Technology and his doctoral degrees from the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology. He was assistant professor at the University of Vienna before taking up the Chair of Public Economics at the University of Konstanz. He has held visiting positions at the International Monetary Fund, the University of Vienna, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales. He is managing editor of “FinanzArchiv” and associate editor of “Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik”. He is also chairman of the Committee of Public Finance (“Finanzwirtschaftlicher Ausschuss”) of the “Verein für Socialpolitik”.

Research interests: theory of taxation, international taxation and tax harmonisation, fiscal federalism, tax policy analysis, economics of education.

Chair of Public Economics

Zahide Eylem Gevrek, PhD

Zahide Eylem Gevrek obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Arizona in 2010. She holds Master's degrees in economics from the University of Arizona and Istanbul Technical University and a Bachelor's degree in economics from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. She is particularly interested in the role of family structure in immigrants’ economic integration. Her research also explores the importance of culture in the determination of economic outcomes and the role of incentives in education and academic success.

Research interests: labour economics, economics of immigration, economics of education, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics.

Junior Professor for Educational and Labour Economics

Dr. Wolf-Heimo Grieben

Dr. Grieben studied economics at the University of Saarbruecken, Stockholm School of Eco-nomics and Stockholm University. He obtained his PhD in December 2002 at the WHU Koblenz (Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management) with a dissertation on "Trade and Technology as Competing Explanations for Rising Inequality". From 2002 to 2005, he held a postdoctoral position in the Doctoral Programme at the University of Dortmund. In March 2005, he joined the Department of Economics in Konstanz as a junior professor. His research interests focus on macroeconomic aspects of globalisation and the political economy of labour market rigidities in growing economies.

Research interests: endogenous growth and international trade theory, labour economics, political economy.

Junior Professor for Economics

Dr. Matthias Hertweck

Dr. Hertweck obtained his doctoral degree in economics at the European University Institute (Florence) in January 2010. Before his appointment as a junior professor at the University of Konstanz in March 2010, he held a postdoctoral position at the University of Basel. The focus of his research is dynamic macroeconomics, in particular DSGE modelling applied to labour economics and monetary policy.

Research interests: dynamic macroeconomics, labour economics, monetary policy.

Junior Professor for Macroeconomics

Prof. Dr. Jens Jackwerth

After receiving his PhD in finance from Goettingen University in 1994, Prof. Jackwerth was a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the UC Berkeley until 1997. He taught at the London Business School until 1999, then at the University of Wisconsin at Madison until 2001, before taking up the Chair of Finance at the University of Konstanz. His research interests are in derivative pricing and asset pricing. Questions concern the information contained in option prices and ways to unlock this information. Publications have appeared in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Derivatives.

Research interests: asset pricing, derivative pricing, financial engineering.

Chair of Finance

Prof. Dr. Leo Kaas

Prof. Kaas obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Bielefeld in 1998 and his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 2004. Between 1998 and 2003, he also taught at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, at CERGE-EI in Prague and at the University of California, Los Angeles. In October 2004, he joined the University of Konstanz to head the Chair of Economic Theory and Labour Economics. His recent research has focused on the impact of imperfections in labour and financial markets on growth and macroeconomic volatility.

Research interests: macroeconomic theory, growth and business cycle theory, labour economics.

Chair of Economic Theory and Labour Economics

Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier

After completing his doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim, he spent a research year at Harvard University. In 1994, he took up the Chair of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Konstanz. He is a research professor of the Centre of European Economic Research in Mannheim and research fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA).

Research interests: microeconometrics, labour econometrics, econometrics of ultra-high frequent financial data.

Chair of Economics and Econometrics

Dr. Niklas Potrafke

Research interests: political economy, economic policy.

Assistant Professor - Chair of Political Economy

PD Dr. Dirk Schindler

Dirk Schindler received his doctoral degree at the University of Konstanz in November 2004 and completed his habilitation in economics at the same university in June 2010. Aside from his position as assistant professor, he is a regular guest at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen.

Research interests: public finance, especially optimal taxation theory in connection with educational decisions and uncertainty and tax planning in multinational companies.

Assistant Professor - Chair of Public Economics

Dr. Almuth Scholl

Dr. Scholl received her doctorate from the Humboldt University Berlin in 2006. Before her appointment as a junior professor at the University of Konstanz in 2008, she worked at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

Research interests: international macroeconomics, dynamic contract theory, applied macroeconometrics.

Junior Professor for International Economics

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Stefani

Prof. Stefani studied business administration at the University of Tübingen and obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Frankfurt am Main. After completing her habilitation thesis at the University of Zurich, she took up the Chair of Accounting at the University of Konstanz.

Research interests: financial accounting and auditing, business administration.

Chair of Accounting

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Ursprung

Prof. Ursprung obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Basel. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and at UCLA, and held a lecturer position at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, before taking up the Chair of Political Economy in Konstanz in 1988. He has published numerous articles in internationally renowned scientific journals such as the American Economic Review, the International Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Economic Inquiry. He is currently one of the managing editors of the European Journal of Political Economy. He has held visiting positions at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, UCLA and the Research Institute in Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan. In 1994, Prof. Ursprung obtained a Max Planck research award for outstanding research in collaboration with Arye Hillman in the field of political economy.

Research interests: economic theory, political economy.

Chair of Political Economy

Alexander K. Wagner obtained a PhD in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) in 2009. He also holds a Master's degree in economic theory and econometrics from University of Toulouse and a Master's degree in economics from Humboldt University Berlin. His research is mainly concerned with behavioural economics and game theory, combining both theoretical and experimental methods in his work.

Research interests: Behavioural and experimental game theory, applied micro, psychology, risk and uncertainty

Assistant Professor - Chair of Microeconomic Theory