Monika Schnitzer

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Monika Schnitzer (born September 9, 1961 in Mannheim ) is a German economist and university lecturer . Since 1996 she has held the chair for comparative economic research at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Her research and teaching focus on competition policy , innovation economics and multinational companies . From January 2015 to December 2016 she was chairwoman of the Verein für Socialpolitik . In 2020 she was appointed to the Expert Council to assess macroeconomic developments .

Career, research and teaching

Schnitzer studied economics at the University of Cologne between 1981 and 1986 , where she then worked as a research assistant with Eva Bössmann . At the same time, she completed her doctoral studies at the University of Bonn with her thesis Takeovers and Tacit Collusion by 1991 . In the same year she moved there as a research assistant to Urs Schweizer in the economic policy department of the university. In 1995 she completed her habilitation at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Bonn on the subject of Solutions to the Sovereign Debt Problem: Countertrade and Foreign Direct Investment .

After a substitute professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich between November 1995 and July 1996, Schnitzer moved to Munich as a full professor. Since then she has held the chair for comparative economic research there. In 1996 she received the Karl Arnold Prize of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. She declined calls to the London Business School , the University of Zurich , the University of Bonn and, as Director of the Max Planck Institute in Jena, but was a visiting professor at Stanford University , Yale University , the University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard University .

Schnitzer currently publishes and teaches on topics such as competition policy and innovation economics. In her current research, she uses microdata , for example to empirically analyze the innovation activities of companies. She also deals with multinational corporations and corporate internationalization strategies. At the beginning of her career she also dealt with topics in the field of foreign trade and contract theory.

In addition to her work as a university lecturer, Schnitzer works in various research institutions and as a scientific consultant. Since 2001 she has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy . She also advised the European Commission as part of the associated Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy . Between 2003 and 2007 she was a member of the Council of the European Economic Association . In 2005 she appeared as a signatory of the Hamburg appeal on the economic and political situation in Germany. In the same year she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from the hands of Federal President Horst Köhler . In 2012 she also received the Bavarian Order of Merit . Since 2008 she has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as well as a Fellow of the European Economic Association and since 2016 a member of the Academia Europaea . As deputy chairwoman of the expert commission for research and innovation , Schnitzer advised the German government from 2011 to 2019 . In addition, from 2014 to 2015 she was a member of the Expert Commission Strengthening Investments in Germany and from 2018 to 2019 a member of the Commission Competition Law 4.0 of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. From 2015 to 2016 she was chairwoman of the Verein für Socialpolitik.

In 2020, Schnitzer and Veronika Grimm were appointed to the Advisory Council as a so-called economic method to assess the overall economic development .

Private

Schnitzer is married to Klaus M. Schmidt and has three daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evidence-based economic policy required . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ Inquiry: Monika Schnitzer. “Dare to be more transparent” . Wirtschaftswoche 36/2014, September 1, 2014.
  3. ^ Engerer Executive Board , socialpolitik.de, accessed on February 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ Economists Grimm and Schnitzer are new ways of doing business. In: Finanznachrichten.de. April 1, 2020, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Monika Schnitzer. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. August 20, 2014, accessed June 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Short biography : Short biography of 2012 ( Memento of March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on May 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Monika Schnitzer. In: Expert council for the assessment of macroeconomic development. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ uni-hamburg.de: "Hamburger Appell" ( Memento from December 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ uni-muenchen.de: "LMU professor receives Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany" (accessed on December 2, 2018)
  10. ↑ Professor Schnitzer receives the Bavarian Order of Merit. In: econ.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  11. ^ Membership directory: Monika Schnitzer. Academia Europaea, accessed July 17, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Monika Schnitzer reappointed to EFI. In: uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. In: monika-schnitzer.com. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Kai Schöneberg: For the first time two women on the advisory committee - women for the federal government. taz , February 27, 2020, accessed on February 27, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Georg Meck: "The VW scandal would not have happened with women" (interview) . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . 19, p. 21, May 10, 2020.
  16. ↑ uni-muenchen.de: "LMU - Faculty of Economics - CV of Prof. Dr. Monika Schnitzer " (accessed on March 25, 2014)
  17. ↑ Woman for hard facts. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 13, 2018, accessed June 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schnitzer, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim