Philipp Harms

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Philipp Harms (* 1966 in Leonberg ) is a German economist and professor . He currently teaches at Gutenberg University in Mainz. His main focus is on international economics.

Study and job

Harms initially completed an apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller at Ernst Klett Verlag in Stuttgart from 1987 to 1989 . He then studied economics , Slavic and law for five years at the University of Konstanz and completed his studies with a degree in economics. From 1998 to 2003 he worked there as a research assistant at the Chair of Economics and received his doctorate in 1999 from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland . For his dissertation entitled “International Investment, Political Risk, and Growth” he received the grade summa cum laude. From 2002 to 2003 he was also employed there as a lecturer. In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz. From 2004 to 2010 he worked as a professor for economics at the chair for economics (especially macroeconomics) at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen . He was then appointed professor of economics, in particular international economics, at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . His main research areas are international macroeconomics , international political economy , dynamic macroeconomics, transformation and development economics , and public choice.

Publications (selection)

  • International Investment, Political Risk, and Growth . Springer US publisher (2000). ISBN 0792378334
  • with Stefan Zink: Growing into and out of social conflict (2005), Economica 72, pp. 267–286
  • with Matthias Lutz: Aid, governance, and private foreign investment: some puzzling findings for the 1990s (2006), The Economic Journal 116, pp. 773-790
  • International Macroeconomics. Verlag Mohr-Siebeck , Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-148775-0 .
  • with Stefan Zink: Limits to Redistribution in a Democracy: A Survey (2009), European Journal of Political Economy 19, pp. 651–668

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personal data
SURNAME Harms, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Leonberg