Friedrich Schneider (economist)

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Friedrich Georg Schneider (born February 16, 1949 in Konstanz ) is a German and Austrian economist . He is an expert in the research disciplines of the shadow economy , tax evasion and organized crime as well as in environmental economics.

biography

academic career

Schneider studied economics at the University of Konstanz from 1970 to 1973 and graduated with a degree in economics. This was followed by the 1977 promotion to Dr. rer. soc., also at the University of Konstanz. In 1983 Schneider completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich .

Professional background

From 1975 to 1976 graduated Schneider a research stay in the US at the universities of Yale and Princeton as a research fellow and a researcher at the Public Choice Center of the University of Virginia in Blacksburg. He then became a research assistant at the Institute for Empirical Economic Research at the University of Zurich, which he remained until 1981. In 1982 he received a visiting associate professor at the Faculty of Economics at Stockholm University . He held the same position the following year at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. Thereupon he became Associate Professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, before he finally received an appointment as Full University Professor at the Institute for Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria in 1986 , which he accepted. Schneider held this position until his retirement , interrupted by three visiting professorships at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, (1987), at Saarland University (1994) and at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand (2013), as well a research professorship at DIW Berlin . He received offers from the universities of Witten / Herdecke (1985), Erlangen-Nürnberg (1990), Mannheim (1990), Saarland (1995) and Friedrichshafen (2010), which he turned down. Even after his retirement in Linz, Schneider holds lectures, for example at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA).

Offices

  • 1991–1996: Dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
  • 1996–2007: Vice-Rector for Foreign and Foreign Relations at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
  • 1997–1999: President of the National Economic Society (Austrian Economic Association)
  • 2004–2010: President of VÖWA (Association of Austrian Business Academics)
  • 2005–2008: Chairman of the Association for Social Policy
  • 2013–2016: Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
  • 2010 run: Member of the Advisory Board of the Upper Austrian think tank ACADEMIA SUPERIOR - Society for Future Research .

Honors

  • 2003: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Ricardo Palma Lima, Peru
  • 2003: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2006: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Trujillo, Peru
  • 2012: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Macedonia
  • 2012: Award of the Silver Medal of Honor for the Services of the Republic of Austria
  • 2013: Awarding of the Cardinal Innitzer Appreciation Prize for the Humanities by Cardinal Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna
  • 2018: Mostdipf Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of IACA lecturers (English, accessed on September 20, 2018)
  2. ↑ And the Mostdipf 2018 goes to ... . Article dated May 8, 2018, accessed May 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Friedrich Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian economist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy