Lars-Hendrik Röller

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Lars-Hendrik Röller

Lars-Hendrik Röller (born July 19, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German economist . Since July 1, 2011, he has been head of the economic and finance department in the Federal Chancellery .

Life

Röller, son of the former Dresdner Bank board spokesman Wolfgang Röller , studied computer science at Texas A&M University and at the University of Pennsylvania , from which he also has a master's and PhD in economics. Röller began his academic career as a research assistant in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He stayed in Pennsylvania until 1987, where he also worked at the Institute for Law and Economics. From 1987 to 1999 Röller was professor at the INSEAD business school in France. In 1994 Röller also became head of the Competitiveness and Industrial Change department at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). In 1995 he was appointed to the chair for industrial economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In September 2003, Röller was appointed Chief Economist of the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition . There he worked as chief economist in the areas of merger control , cartels, abuse of market power and state aid control .

In addition to these activities, Röller was visiting professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , New York University and Stanford University, among others . Röller is a member of several scientific associations and institutions; Among other things, he is President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) and was Director at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London from 1996 to 2003 . In 2004 he was made a Fellow of the European Economic Association . From September 1, 2006 to June 30, 2011, he was President of the private European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. From 2009 to 2011 he was also chairman of the Verein für Socialpolitik .

Since July 1, 2011, he has been head of the economic and finance department in the Federal Chancellery: there he succeeded Jens Weidmann , who moved to head the Bundesbank, and the interim solution Uwe Corsepius . As an economic policy advisor to the Chancellor, he also acts as her preparer and chief negotiator (“Sherpa”) at G7 and G20 summits.

Germany hosted the G20 summit in Hamburg in July 2017. Röller's work before and at this summit was therefore even more important than at the G20 summits in previous years.

He advised several organizations, governments and international companies on competition, strategy and regulation. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Röller is married and has three children. His brother Ulf-Jensen Röller (* 1964) is a TV journalist for ZDF.

Prizes and awards

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • Complementarities in innovation policy . WZB, Berlin 2000 (together with Pierre Mohnen).
  • Rent sharing in the European airline industry . WZB, Berlin 1995 (together with Damien J. Neven).
  • The social market economy in the new world economy . Edition Sigma, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89404-297-4 .
  • Telecommunications infrastructure and economic development. A simultaneous approach . CEPR, London 2000 (together with Leonard Waveman).

Essays

  • The Allocation of Jurisdiction in International Antitrust . In: European Economic Review , Vol. 44 (2000), pp. 845-855 (together with Damien J. Neven).
  • Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development. A simultaneous approach . In: American Economic Review , 2001, December (with Len Waverman).
  • Complementarity in Innovation Policy . In: European Economic Review , Vol. 49 (2005), pp. 1431–1450, (together with Pierre Mohnen).
  • Economic Analysis and Competition Policy Enforcement in Europe . In: Peter A. van Bergeijk (Ed.): Modeling European Mergers. Theory, Competition and Case Studies . Elgar Books, Cheltenham 2005, ISBN 1-84542-318-6 .
  • On the Workings of a Cartel. Evidence from the Norvegian Cement Industry . In: American Economic Review , Vol. 96 (2006), Issue 1, pp. 321–338, (together with Frode Steen).
  • The political economy of European merger control: Evidence using stock market data. In: Journal of Law and Economics , Vol. 50 (2007), pp. 455-489 (together with T. Duso, and DJ Neven).

Web links

Commons : Lars-Hendrik Röller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.wiwo.de/politik-weltwirtschaft/lars-hendrik-roeller-wird-kanzlerfluesterer-469040/
  2. ↑ FAZ.net July 6, 2017 / Manfred Schäfers: Merkel's longest-serving Sherpa
  3. ↑ manager-magazin.de: G20 in Hamburg - all the facts about the club of the mighty
  4. ↑ FAZ.net June 30, 2017: Merkel sends G-20 Sherpa Röller to Washington
  5. ↑ www.unisg.ch (pdf)
  6. ^ Gossen Prize Winner. socialpolitik.org , accessed December 25, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Röller, Lars-Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main