Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (* 1972 in Cologne ) is a German economist . She teaches at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and was visiting professor at Stanford University in 2015/2016 .

Life

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln studied economics and Latin American studies at the University of Cologne and economics at Yale University . There she was in 2004 with the work "Aggregate Implications of Household Savings Behavior: Theoretical Analyzes with Empirical Evidence from the German Reunification, experiment '' for Ph.D. PhD .

From 2004 she was an assistant professor at Harvard University . In 2009 she was appointed to the professorship for Macroeconomics and Development in the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 2010 she became a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. In 2015/2016 she taught at Stanford University .

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is married to Matthias Schündeln .

Act

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln's research focuses on the one hand in the analysis of the savings, consumption and labor market behavior of private households.

But it is also dedicated to a relatively new area of ​​economics, the endogeneity of preferences . While classical economics takes people's preferences for granted, this research field examines the influence of the political and economic system on people's preferences. Here Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln demonstrated that democracy is not fundamentally attractive, but that people get used to forms of government and the more they support the form of government in which they live, the longer they live in it.

In addition, she dealt with the economic consequences of German reunification and the transformation processes in East Germany. Here she worked closely with Alberto Alesina .

Your current research into why Americans work so many more hours than Europeans shows that different tax systems play a major role. For example, the German spouse splitting means that women are not as strongly motivated to work as in the USA.

Memberships and awards (selection)

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance since 2011. From 2011 to 2014, it belonged to the Institute for World Economics in Kiel and the Rhenish-Westphalian Institute for Economic Research at.

For their study, "The Response of Household Saving to the Large Shock of German Unification" (in: American Economic Review , 2008), she was awarded the SOEP Prize 2008, that of the best scientific work based on Socio-Economic Panel awarded becomes. In 2010, Fuchs-Schündeln received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project "The Role of Preferences and Institutions in Economic Transitions".

In 2016 she was honored with the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik .

In 2018 Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .

Since January 2019, Fuchs-Schündelm has been chairwoman of the Verein für Socialpolitik.

Fonts

  • The Response of Household Saving to the Large Shock of German Reunification (The Answer of Household Saving to the Great Shock of German Reunification ). In: American Economic Review , 98, 5, 2008.
  • Who Stays, Who Goes, Who Returns? East-West Migration within Germany since Reunification. (Who stays, who goes, who returns? East-western migration in Germany since reunification) (with Matthias Schündeln) In: Economics of Transition. 17, 3, 2009.
  • Good Bye Lenin (Or Not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences (with Alberto Alesina), American Economic Review , 97 (4), 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Marc Beise: The woman who reads the numbers. Why Americans work a lot and Germans like to save so much. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln delves deeply into the statistics and finds patterns and explanations for human behavior there. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 245, 24./25. October 2015, p. 30.
  2. ↑ By Harvard to Main , press release, October 22, 2008 (offline on January 2, 2018).
  3. ↑ Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln on the website of the IZA Bonn (English)
  4. ↑ Communication from Stanford University , accessed October 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board: Members. Federal Ministry of Finance, September 1, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2018 (German).
  6. ^ DIW Berlin: DIW Berlin: Archive . March 1, 2007.
  7. ^ ERC Starting Grant 2010 . In: erc.europa.eu. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  8. ↑ Professor receives Leibniz Prize . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. December 29, 2017.
  9. ↑ Stefan Reccius, Bert Losse: This is how the shooting star of the economic scene ticks. In: WirtschaftsWoche. March 28, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fox bundles, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne