Axel Börsch-Supan

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Axel Börsch-Supan (born December 28, 1954 in Darmstadt ) is a German economist . In 2001 he founded the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging at the University of Mannheim . Börsch-Supan has been a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society since January 2011 . The Mannheim research institute has been part of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich since July 2011 as the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) . He is also a professor at the Technical University of Munich , coordinator of the EU research infrastructure Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and, since June 6, 2018, has also been a member of the pension commission “Reliable intergenerational contract” set up by the federal government.

Scientific career

Axel Börsch-Supan studied economics and mathematics at the universities of Munich and Bonn , and received his diploma in mathematics with a minor in econometrics in 1980 . He received his PhD in economics in 1984 from Nobel Prize winner Daniel McFadden , one of the pioneers in microeconometrics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts . After positions from 1984 to 1987 as Assistant Professor for Public Policy at Harvard University and from 1987 to 1989 as Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Dortmund , he was Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Statistics at the University of Mannheim from 1989 to 2011 . Since July 2011, Börsch-Supan and Prof. Ulrich Becker have headed an institute of the Max Planck Society in Munich that deals with social law and socio-political research. Börsch-Supan has held the chair for “Economics of Aging” at the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Munich since 2012.

research

Börsch-Supan's research is devoted to the micro and macroeconomic effects of demographic change, the saving behavior of households, the reform of social security systems, as well as labor and capital market issues. It is about questions such as:

  • How does demographics affect social security systems, especially old-age provision?
  • How can the incentive effects for early retirement be mitigated?
  • What determines the formation of savings and the choice of portfolio?
  • How do the economic conditions (wealth, income) affect health and life expectancy?
  • How strong is the morbidity compression and how does it differ according to socio-economic status?
  • How does demography affect economic growth, consumption, investment and the external balance of an aging society?
  • How do productivity and innovation in an aging society change?
  • What role does education play in an aging society?
  • How does Germany compare to its European neighbors and to the USA and Asia?

Scientific positions (excerpt)

Scientific advisory activity (extract)

  • 2018–2020 Commission "Reliable Generational Contract"
  • Since 2011 member of the Expert Commission on Demographic Change of the Federal Government, Berlin
  • 2005–2009 Commission for the Federal President's Demographic Change Forum
  • 2002–2003 Commission on Sustainability in Financing Social Security Systems ( Rürup Commission )
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology since 1999, chaired from 2004 to 2008
  • Since 1998 The World Bank , Washington DC
  • Since 1997 OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development), Paris

Honors (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.verlaesslicher-generationenvertrag.de/lösungen/
  2. ↑ Axel Börsch-Supan's curriculum vitae at www.leopoldina.org
  3. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Axel Börsch-Supan (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 30, 2016.


personal data
SURNAME Börsch-Supan, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt