Franz Jaeger (economist)

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Franz Jaeger (1987)

Franz Konrad Paul Jaeger (* 4. December 1941 in St. Gallen ; heimatberechtigt ibid) is a Swiss economist , Emeritus Professor of Economic Policy and former politicians of LdU .

Life

Jaeger grew up in St. Gallen and attended the Flade secondary school . In 1970 he received his doctorate. oec. and completed his habilitation in 1980 at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). From 1972 to 2007 he taught economics there. Since then, he is an emeritus professor of economic policy . From 1989 to 2007 he was director of the Research Institute for Empirical Economics and Economic Policy. From 2008 to 2016 he was Academic Director at the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law at the University of St. Gallen, where he was responsible for the new certificate programs as well as for economic and social policy.

From 1971 to 1995 Franz Jaeger was a member of the National Council, from 1990 to 1991 he was President of the National Council's Finance Commission and from 1992 to 1995 a member of the National Council's Economic Commission. From 1985 to 1992 he presided over the Landesring der Independen (LdU) party, which is closely related to the Migros cooperative .

As part of his main research interests, he has published numerous papers in the fields of European economic integration (euro), macroeconomic stability policy, the labor market, competition, privatization and deregulation economics.

From 2003 to 2004 Jaeger was on the Advisory Board of the Avenir Suisse Foundation . He and his wife have been running a communication and economic policy consultancy company since 2007. He was a member or president of various Swiss and foreign boards of directors and foundations. He has been President of the Eastern Switzerland Education and Culture Forum since 2013.

Honors

Private

Franz Jaeger is married to Eva Nietlispach and has four children. He lives in St. Gallen and between Pietrasanta and Forte dei Marmi in Liguria .

Publications

  • World Trade and Growth: Opportunities for the Third and Fourth World? 1977, ISBN 978-3-7253-0048-8
  • Money, Prices, and Employment: Introduction to Macroeconomics 1977, ISBN 978-3-7253-0042-6
  • On the economic analysis of national debt: supplemented by an exemplary study of the situation in Switzerland , 1980, ISBN 978-3-7253-0129-4
  • The monetary policy of the Swiss National Bank: theoretical foundation and concrete form , 1983, ISBN 978-3-7253-0207-9
  • with Peter Kischka : Estimation of the volume of transit traffic in Switzerland 1991, ISBN 978-3-7253-0428-8
  • with Bernd Schips and Peter Sohre : Mortgage Credit Market : An Investigation of the Competitive Situation in Switzerland: Study on behalf of Price Monitoring , 1993
  • Nature and economy. Economic foundations of a policy of qualitative growth , 1993, ISBN 978-3-72530405-9
  • with Stefan Bühler : Market rent: Swiss housing rents between politics and the market , 1995, ISBN 978-3-7253-0538-4
  • Privatization of State Engineering: Advantages and Disadvantages of External Procurement of Public Project Work 1999, ISBN 3-7253-0618-4
  • with Jochen Hartwig : Euro. Chance or risk? 1999, ISBN 978-3-7253-0650-3
  • The monetary policy of the Swiss National Bank. Theoretical foundation and concrete design , 978-3-7253-0207-9
  • with Stefan Bühler: Introduction to Industrial Economics , Springer 2002, ISBN 978-3-5404-2758-2
  • with Carolin Helwig and Robert Oleschak : The small and medium-sized enterprises - the backbone of the Swiss economy: an analysis based on the business censuses 1985, 1991, 1995, 1998 and 2001 by the Research Institute for Empirical Economics and Economic Policy (FEW-HSG) , 2003, ISBN 3 -8349-8855-3
  • with Beat Bechtold: A permissive Switzerland - chimera or chance ?: on the expansion of the free movement of persons to the enlarged EU: attempt to diagnose the economic effects on migration, illegal work and foreign investments in Switzerland , 2005, ISBN 3-7253-0815-2
  • with Konrad Hummler : Small State of Switzerland - Discontinued or Successful Model? 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriel Züllig and Patrizia Thurnheer: Der Gipfelstürmer , Prisma - an initiative of the SHSG, May 12, 2014
  2. ^ Franz Jaeger on the website of the University of St. Gallen
  3. ^ Franz Jaeger on the website of the University of St. Gallen
  4. ^ Reto E. Wild, Ralf Kaminski: Franz Jaeger: I am for the free immigration of ideas. In: Migros Magazin , Zurich June 26, 2017, pp. 22–27.
personal data
SURNAME Jaeger, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaeger, Franz Konrad Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen