Ernst Baltensperger

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Ernst Baltensperger (born July 20, 1942 in Zurich ) is a Swiss economist .

Life

Baltensperger studied economics at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1965 with a licentiate . In 1969 he received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University . From 1968 to 1979 he taught at Ohio State University : first as an assistant professor, from 1972 as an associate professor and from 1976 as a full professor. In 1979 he became a full professor of economics at the University of Heidelberg , and in 1982 at the University of St. Gallen . From 1984 to 2007 he was a full professor of economics at the University of Bern .

Baltensperger has repeatedly worked as a consultant for the Swiss National Bank. From 1981 to 1995 he was a member of the Federal Commission for Economic Issues , from 1988 to 1994 as President. From 1989 to 1996 he was a member of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation , and from 1984 to 2009 Director of the National Bank's Gerzensee Study Center . He is a member of the Association for Social Policy and an honorary member of the Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics.

His research interests lie in the areas of monetary theory and policy , banking and financial markets, as well as monetary foreign economic theory .

In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel .

Fonts (selection)

  • Economies of Scale, Firm Size, and Concentration in Banking. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1969.
  • with Peter Böhm: Monetary Policy and Inflation Control. Possibilities, costs, accompanying measures. Study prepared on behalf of the Commission for Economic Issues (= SIASR series of publications. Vol. 6). Rüegger, Diessenhofen 1984, ISBN 3-7253-0224-3 (short version: PDF; 3.1 MB ( memento of October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
  • with Hellmuth Milde : Theory of banking behavior. Springer, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-540-18214-4 .
  • with Thomas Jordan : Switzerland and the efforts to form a European monetary union (= Bern contributions to the national economy. Vol. 65). Paul Haupt, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-258-04883-5 .
  • Courage to set out - 10 years later. The 1995 white paper and the Swiss reform debate. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-280-05134-7 .
  • The Swiss Franc - A Success Story. The currency of Switzerland in the 19th and 20th centuries. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03823-793-8 .

literature

  • Swiss National Bank (Ed.): Monetary Economic Issues Today. Festschrift in honor of Ernst Baltensperger. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-280-05656-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Members. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ University of Basel celebrates its Dies Academicus 2005: Seven honorary doctorates , website of the University of Basel, accessed on February 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Entry , Bibliographical Database Ideas, accessed on February 3, 2016.
  4. ^ Daniel Hug: The franc - more than just a currency. ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: NZZ am Sonntag . 23rd September 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Baltensperger, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich