Berthold U. Wigger

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Berthold U. Wigger (born July 4, 1966 in Heek , Westphalia) is a German economist . He is a full professor of economics and holds the chair for finance and public management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

Life

Wigger completed his schooling in 1985 at the Alexander-Hegius-Gymnasium in Ahaus with the Abitur. From 1987 to 1989 he studied Romance languages at the University of Göttingen . At the same time he took up a degree in economics, which he finished in 1992. He then got a job as a research assistant at the University of Göttingen . Wigger received his doctorate there in 1994 with a growth theory thesis on " Human capital accumulation, factor structure and economic growth ". Between 1994 and 1999 he was a research assistant at the Universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Mannheim. Wigger also studied mathematics at the latter between 1995 and 1999 .

In 2000 he completed his habilitation with Robert von Weizsäcker at the University of Mannheim with a thesis on the reform of the pension system "Economic Perspectives on Social Insurance". After that he was a lecturer at the University of Mannheim until 2001. After a substitute chair for economics at the University of Saarland , he moved to the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2002 and took over the chair for economics, especially finance. In 2007 he was accepted into the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance . Since 2009 he has held the Chair for Public Finance and Public Management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . Since 2012 he has been a member of the Kronberger Kreis , the scientific advisory board of the Market Economy Foundation .

Wigger a. a. at the University of Southern California , Università di Salerno , University of California, Berkeley , the International Monetary Fund and the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane .

Wigger is an expert in public finance and deals with issues relating to the financing of collective tasks, such as education and public infrastructure.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Berthold U. Wigger.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Tax Institute Nuremberg: Activity Report 2006. P. 49.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.steuerinstitut.wiso.uni-erlangen.de  
  2. ↑ Berthold U. Wigger on the website of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
personal data
SURNAME Wigger, Berthold U.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Heek , Westphalia