Hans Peter Grüner

Hans Peter Grüner (* 1966 in Marburg ) is a German economist . He is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim , where he holds the Chair of Economic Policy .

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Grüner studied economics and mathematics at the University of Heidelberg from 1986 and graduated in 1990 with a degree in economics . In his diploma thesis he dealt with the general temporary equilibrium with quantity rationing with special consideration of the work of Benassy . At the University of Bonn and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the Crédibilité des banques centrales et salaires nominaux en Europe: analyze théorique et résultats empiriques (1994). He worked as a research assistant at the University of Konstanz and the University of Bonn. At the latter he completed his habilitation in 1999 with the work The Economics of Distributive Politics . In the same year he became professor for economics at the University of Mannheim.

For several years Grüner was dean of studies in his faculty, member of the board of the European Network for Training in Economic Research, program director at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics and Management, speaker of the economics department and member of the Senate of the University of Mannheim. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London.

Grüner works on political and economic organizations, political economy , mechanism design theory , economic policy , monetary policy , capital market theory , labor market reform and the theory of income and wealth distribution . He also advises various companies, the European Commission and the European Central Bank . Since 2006 he has also been an adjunct professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He is a member of the Royal Economic Society and the Verein für Socialpolitik .

In several press articles he campaigned for the preservation of the European monetary union and for the introduction of a European banking union. Together with Clemens Fuest (ZEW), Marcel Fratzscher, (DIW), Michael Hüther (Institute of the German Economy) and Jörg Rocholl (ESMT), he warned in 2013 against the exit of one or more countries from the euro zone.

His textbook economic policy. Allocation-theoretical foundations and political-economic analysis appeared in 2001 by Springer ( ISBN 3-540-41799-0 ) and saw its seventh edition in 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-662-58057-8 ).

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Grüner on the website of the University of Mannheim
• Portrait in the Handelsblatt on December 10, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Peter Grüner: On the edge of the mandate, Wirtschaftswoche of October 8, 2012
2. ^ Opinion for the banking union
3. ↑ Clemens Fuest, Marcel Fratzscher, Hans Peter Grüner, Michael Hüther and Jörg Rocholl: Plea for the Euro, Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 1, 2013