Justus Haucap

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Justus Haucap (born March 24, 1969 in Quakenbrück ) is a German economist . He has been Professor of Economics since 2009 and was Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf from the beginning of 2015 to the end of 2018 . He is the founding director of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and was chairman of the Monopolies Commission from 2008 to 2012 . Since 2019 he has been the lead editor of the Economic Policy Perspectives .

Justus Haucap

Life

Justus Haucap studied economics at the University of Saarland and at the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor after graduating from Quakenbrücker Artland-Gymnasium . He did his doctorate in 1997 with Rudolf Richter in Saarbrücken on the subject of "Advertising and Market Organization: The Economic Theory of Advertising Viewed from the Perspective of New Institutional Economics ". During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting scholar with Oliver Williamson at the Institute for Management, Innovation and Organization of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley . Then he went to the New Zealand Treasury (the New Zealand Treasury ) in Wellington , where he was mainly responsible for the areas of telecommunications, water, postal services, radio frequencies and competition policy issues. Haucap completed his habilitation in November 2003 with a cumulative habilitation thesis on "Eight essays on economic policy: competition, regulation and institutions" with Jörn Kruse at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.

Between February 2004 and September 2007 he held the chair for economic policy, in particular competition theory and policy, at the Ruhr University Bochum and between the winter semester 2007/2008 and summer semester 2009 he held the chair for economic policy at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

In the 2009/10 winter semester he switched to the chair of economics, in particular competition theory and policy ( Schwarz-Schütte- Endowed Professorship) at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . He is the founding director of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE). From July 2006 to July 2014 he was a member of the Monopolies Commission , including its chairman for four years (from July 2008 to July 2012).

On January 1, 2015, Haucap became the new dean of the economics faculty at Düsseldorf University. He is the successor to Stefan Süß, who switched to the university's rectorate on the same day as vice-rector for quality of studies and personnel management. In September 2015 he was honored with the Gustav Stolper Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik . He is liaison professor of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom at the University of Düsseldorf.

Haucap is married and has two sons and two daughters.

Positions

Last but not least, in his role as a former member of the Monopolies Commission, Haucap is often present in the media, among other things on the topics of postal minimum wages , scrapping bonuses and competition deficits in the areas of energy, rail and telecommunications, as a resolute opponent of industry-specific wage floors, as a critic of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), as an opponent of ancillary copyright law for press publishers and as an advocate of the liberalization of drugs such as cannabis . Haucap also writes articles for the author blog Carta , the INSM blog, the Manager Magazin and for Merton, the online magazine of the Stifterverband for German Science . In 2010 he published the book “Authority Flood in Germany. 50 offices and institutions put to the test ”(see literature list).

In the area of public broadcasting , he advocates the abolition of the license fee , the privatization of broadcasters and public funding of a socially significant program offering after the selection of a politically independent body. On May 22, 2015, Haucap and Christiane Kehder wrote an article for The Huffington Post in which he compares the expansion of the public service program offering in times of digital programming diversity with the words: “It's like responding to the At the end of the Cold War, the Bundeswehr would have been vehemently arming itself. "

Research priorities

Vocations

Memberships

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The tax authorities also benefit: the benefits of cannabis legalization in Germany. In: Alternative drugs and addiction report 6, 2019, pp. 112–119.
  • Power, Market and Competition: What Controls the Data Economy? , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96476-022-7 .
  • with Heike Schweitzer, Wolfgang Kerber, Robert Welker, modernization of abuse control for powerful companies , i. A. of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-5520-2 .
  • with Holger Hoch, Praxishandbuch Energiekartellrecht , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-89949-523-2 .
  • with Christiane Kehder, Ina Loebert, Eine liberale Rundfunkordnung für die Zukunft , Düsseldorf 2015 (DICE Ordnungspolitische Perspektiven 79), ISBN 978-3-86304-679-8 . Digitized
  • with Ulrich Heimeshoff, Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay: Is the Internet Driving Competition or Market Monopolization? In: International Economics and Economic Policy 11, 2014, pp. 49–61.
  • with Oliver Falck, Jürgen Kühling, Growth-Oriented Telecommunications Policy: Need for Action and Options , i. A. of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0831-4 .
  • with Ralf Dewenter, Tobias Wenzel, On File Sharing with Indirect Network Effects between Concert Ticket Sales and Music Recordings. In: Journal of Media Economics 25, 2012, pp. 168–178.
  • Flood of authorities in Germany. 50 offices and institutions put to the test , ed. i. A. der Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812730-4-5 .
  • with Ralf Dewenter, Economic Effects of Public Service Online Offers: Market Effects within Three-Step Tests , i. A. of the Association of Private Broadcasting and Telemedia eV, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-5033-0 .
  • with Uwe Pauly, Christian Wey: A Cartel Analysis of the German Labor Institutions and Its Implications for Labor Market Reforms. In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 163, 2007, pp. 503-516.
  • with Stefan Bühler: Strategic Outsourcing Revisited. In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , 61, 2006, pp. 325–338.
  • with Christian Wey: Unionization Structures and Innovation Incentives. in: The Economic Journal , 114, 2004, pp. C140-C165.
  • Further publications at Research Papers in Economics / RePEc

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Wambach replaces Justus Haucap in the IDW Monopolies Commission press release, accessed on September 8, 2015.
  2. ^ New dean and vice dean of Heinrich Heine University, website; dated January 1, 2015, accessed May 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ Justus Haucap receives Gustav-Stolper-Preis Verein für Socialpolitik, website, accessed on September 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ INSM blog ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the New Social Market Economy Initiative . Retrieved September 5, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.insm.de
  5. ↑ Opinion maker for Manager Magazin . Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ Merton. Online magazine of the Stifterverband . Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  7. ^ Flood of authorities in Germany . INSM website. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
  8. ↑ Why the license fee should be abolished ; from The Huffington Post , May 22, 2015, accessed May 25, 2015.
  9. ↑ Econwatch website .
  10. ↑ North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts accepts 17 new members. Press release from May 22, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
  11. ^ Federal Network Agency - Scientific Working Group for Regulatory Issues - List of Members. Retrieved July 9, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Professor Justus Haucap appointed to the Economic Senate - BVMW . ( bvmw.de [accessed on July 9, 2018]).
  13. ^ Grimme Institute ( Memento from June 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the Grimme Institute . Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  14. ↑ Gustav Stolper Prize , accessed on September 11, 2017.
  15. ↑ RP ONLINE: DIE FAMILIENUNTERNEHMER eV: Justus Haucap receives regulatory award from family entrepreneurs. Retrieved July 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Haucap, Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Quakenbrück