Kai A. Konrad
Kai A. Konrad (* 1961 in Heidelberg ) is a German economists with the research focus finance .
Life
Kai Konrad received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1990 and completed his habilitation in 1993 . He has researched and taught at the Universities of Munich, Bonn , Bergen (Norway) and the University of California in Irvine. From 1994 to 2009 he was a university professor in the economics department at the Free University of Berlin and from 2001 to 2009 director at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). He has been a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society since 2009, from 2009 to 2010 he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law , and since 2011 he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public finance .
In the Handelsblatt Ökonomen Ranking, which has analyzed the research performance of economists in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland based on the quality of publications since 2004, it achieved 6th place (2011 and 2013) and 5th place (2015 and 2017).
He was co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics from 2007 to 2018 . He was at times co-author and editor of various other international journals in economics and political science. He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance since 1999 , was its deputy chairman from 2007 to 2010 and its chairman from 2011 to 2014. His research areas are finance, microeconomics and new political economy . He has written more than 100 articles in international economic and political science journals.
In August 2013, Konrad predicted an uncertain but finite life expectancy for the euro in a WELT interview.
Konrad has been a member of the German Academy for Technical Sciences acatech since 2012 . In 2013 Konrad was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea , in 2014 to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and in 2015 to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts .
Konrad is a member of the scientific advisory board of the economic policy journal Wirtschaftsdienst .
Prizes and awards
- 2000: Gossen Prize from the Association for Social Policy
- 2016: Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship of the CESifo group ( Ifo Institute and Center for Economic Studies ) and the IIPF
Memberships and Activities
- Center for European Economic Research , Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2017), Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2000)
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2014)
- Norwegian Center for Taxation (NoCeT) at the Norwegian School of Economics , member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2012)
- Econwatch, member of the board of trustees (since 2012)
- Bruegel , Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (2012-2017)
- Munich Center of Governance, Communication, Public Policy and Law (MCG), Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (2009-2012)
- Business Service , Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2011)
Publishing activities
- Journal of Public Economics , Co-Editor (2007-2018)
- Economics of Governance , Founding Co-editor (2000-2007), Associate Editor (since 2008)
- Economic Policy , Managing Editor (1998-2000), Panel Member (1998, 2001)
- German Economic Review , Board of Editors (since 2012)
- World Tax Journal , Editorial Board (since 2010)
- Journal of Conflict Resolution , Editorial Board (since 2009)
- Journal of Population Economics , Associate Editor (since 2001)
Publications (stand-alone works)
- Debts without atonement? What Europe's crisis costs us citizens (with Holger Zschäpitz), Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2012, updated new edition, ISBN 978-3-423-34733-4 .
- Debts without atonement? Why the crash in public finances affects us all (with Holger Zschäpitz), CH Beck 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60688-5 .
- Strategy and Dynamics in Contests , Oxford University Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-954960-3
- Risk Productivity and Taxation. Munich 1989 (dissertation Munich 1990).
Web links
- Literature by and about Kai A. Konrad in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kai A. Konrad in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
- Kai A. Konrad at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
- Kai A. Konrad at the Academia Europaea
- Kai A. Konrad at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- Member entry by Prof. Dr. Kai A. Konrad (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.
- Contributions from Konrad in the economic service
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking Economics 2011 Top 250 Life Achievements. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking Economics 2013 Lifetime Achievement. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking Economics 2015 Top 250 Life Achievements. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Handelsblatt Ranking Economics 2017 Lifetime Achievement. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Germany cannot save the euro zone. Retrieved October 8, 2015 .
- ^ Gossen Prize Winner. socialpolitik.org, accessed October 8, 2015 .
- ^ Richard Musgrave Professorship awarded to Kai A. Konrad. www.cesifo-group.de, March 14, 2016, accessed on November 23, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Scientific advisory board at the Center for European Economic Research .
- ↑ Advisory Board Norwegian Center for Taxation (NoCeT) at the Norwegian School of Economics .
- ^ Kai Konrad near Bruegel .
- ↑ Scientific Advisory Board at the Wirtschaftsdienst .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Konrad, Kai A. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |