Heinz-Dieter Smeets

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Heinz-Dieter Smeets (* 1952 in Moers ) is a German economist and professor for economics , especially international economic relations, at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Life

Heinz-Dieter Smeets studied economics with a focus on economic policy at the University of Duisburg from 1972 to 1976 . In 1981 he did his doctorate at the University of Bayreuth with the topic The monetary approach of the balance of payments theory for Dr. rer. pole. His habilitation on import protection and GATT took place six years later at the same university. In October 1991 he was appointed professor of economics at Heinrich-Heine University, where he still teaches and researches today. In 1992 he became head of the "Research Center for European Economic Relations" in the Faculty of Economics. In 2006 he finally became the holder of the Chair of Economics.

He is a member of the Verein für Socialpolitik , the European Economic Association and the European Integration Working Group (Bonn) .

Smeets was a co-signer of the euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Threat to Europe (1992).

Research priorities

Fonts

  • The monetary approach of the balance of payments theory. Haupt Verlag , Bern 1982 (dissertation)
  • Import protection and GATT. Peter Lang AG , Frankfurt 1987 (habilitation thesis)
  • The Federal Republic of Germany as an international "economic locomotive". Weltarchiv publishing house, Hamburg 1988
  • On the status of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe. Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Smeets, Heinz-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Moers