Alexander Eisenkopf

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Alexander Eisenkopf (born November 4, 1962 ) is a German economist and university professor. He has been a professor at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen since 2003 .

Life

From 1971 to 1980 Eisenkopf attended the humanistic branch of the Tilemannschule Limburg high school and obtained the general university entrance qualification in December 1980. He did military service from January 1981 to March 1982 a. a. in a telecommunications train from the 13th Panzer Grenadier Brigade. He then began studying physics at the University of Giessen , but switched to business administration in the 1982/83 winter semester . He obtained his degree in business administration in May 1987 at the University of Gießen and then worked there until 1992 as a research assistant at Gerd Aberle's chair . In 1994 he started with a thesis on "Just-in-time-oriented manufacturing and logistics strategies". This work was awarded the Stinnes Award and the Konrad Mellerowicz Prize in 1995.

From March 1993 to September 1996, Eisenkopf was a consultant for real estate market research at Deutsche Bank Research, responsible for the conception and development of scientifically sound real estate market research, and worked under Norbert Walter, chief economist at Deutsche Bank . In 1997 he returned as a research assistant to the Faculty of Economics at the University of Giessen, where he completed his habilitation in July 2001 with a thesis on “Efficient Road Usage Taxes”.

Until he was appointed professor of economics at Zeppelin University in May 2003 , Eisenkopf was a private lecturer at the University of Giessen. In the 2003 summer semester he was also a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .

From October 2003 to the end of 2006, Eisenkopf was Head of Department for the Department of Corporate Management and Economics, and from June 2016 to May 2018, as Vice President Teaching and Didactics, he was responsible for all teaching at Zeppelin University .

Eisenkopf was an appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure from 2006 to 2018 and since 2017 a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Logistics Association . In 2005 he was a member of the PRIMON consortium for the investigation of privatization variants of the Deutsche Bahn "with and without network" (PRIMON) on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing and the Federal Ministry of Finance .

Eisenkopf is also a trained Catholic church musician (C-exam) and worked as a part-time organist for 25 years.

Teaching and research

As part of his research and consulting activities, Alexander Eisenkopf mainly deals with questions of transport economics, infrastructure and transport policy and the interfaces between transport, traffic and the environment. He developed approaches to shaping the transport sector in modern economies. In the context of this he criticizes u. a. the euro bailout policy. His columns can be found on the blogs ZU-daily, The European and Tichys insight .

Eisenkopf teaches basic economics courses (introduction to economics , microeconomics ) as well as advanced seminars on transport, logistics and regulation. In addition to his teaching activities at the Zeppelin University, he is involved in the master's degree in Transport and Logistics at the WU Vienna .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Andreas Knorr (Ed.): New developments in railway policy. Berlin 2008.
  • with Gerd Aberle : Rail transport and network access. Regulatory problems in opening up the rail network and recommendations on competition policy for the design of network access. Hamburg 2002.
  • Efficient road usage taxes. Theoretical foundations and conceptual proposals for an infrastructure tax system. Hamburg 2002 (also habilitation thesis Gießen 2001).
  • Just-in-time-oriented manufacturing and logistics strategies. Characterization, transaction cost theoretical analysis and competition policy appreciation of changed supplier-buyer relationships using the example of the automotive industry. Hamburg 1994 (also dissertation University of Gießen 1994).

Publications in specialist journals (selection)

  • with Andreas Knorr: Will the energy and climate change fail in and on traffic? In: Rahel Schohmaker (Ed.): The European energy transition . Berlin / Boston 2017, pp. 191–218.
  • PPP - no relevant contribution to solving the infrastructure problems in Germany. In: Journal for Economic Policy. Volume 66, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 246-255.
  • with Andreas Knorr and Andreas Lueg-Arndt: Fragmentation of North Atlantic and Transpacific Air Transport Markets? In: James Peoples (Ed.): Pricing Behavior and non-Price Characteristics in the Airline Industry, Advances in Airline Economics. Volume III, Emerald, Amsterdam / Boston / Heidelberg et al. 2012, pp. 193–212.
  • with Christian Grotemeier: Is ticket sales an essential facility? Contribution to the discussion on problems of discrimination in ticket sales in local rail passenger transport. In: Local transport. 27. Vol. 3, 2009, pp. 14-18.
  • with Andreas Knorr: Voluntary Carbon Offsets - a contribution to climate protection in aviation? In: International Transport. 61st vol., 2009, pp. 64-70.
  • Separation of infrastructure and transport as an organizational model for the rail transport industry. In: Society for public economy (ed.): Effects of globalization on public banks; Separation of infrastructure and operations. (= Contributions to the public economy. Issue 26). Berlin 2008, pp. 71–81.
  • Logistics and the environment. In: H. Arnold, H. Isermann, A. Kuhn, H. Tempelmeier (eds.): Handbuch Logistik. 3rd, revised edition. Berlin 2007, pp. 1017-1050.
  • Opening the Rail Freight Market in Europe - an Economic Assessment. In: Intereconomics. Vol. 41, No. 6, 2006, pp. 292-295.
  • Economic instruments for environmentally friendly transport - feasibility and effectiveness. In: Technology Assessment - Theory and Practice (TATuP). Volume 15, No. 3, 2006, pp. 21-30.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chair for Economic & Transport Policy. Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Zeppelin University: CV of Prof. Dr. Alexander Eisenkopf. (PDF) Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Germany on the way to the liability union . In: Tichy's insight . July 4, 2018 ( tichyseinblick.de [accessed July 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ to | Daily - A clever move? Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Alexander Eisenkopf . In: TheEuropean . March 7, 2018 ( theeuropean.de [accessed July 11, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Zeppelin University research database. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eisenkopf, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, traffic expert and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1962