Rudiger Bachmann

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Rüdiger Bachmann (born December 29, 1974 ) is a German - American economist .

Life

After graduating from the Kopernikussschule Freigericht in 1994 , Bachmann studied philosophy and Spanish (Magister) as well as economics (diploma) at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . From 2000 to 2001 he was taken on as a research assistant at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He then moved to Yale University and earned an MA (2002), an M.Phil. (2004) and a Ph.D. (2007).

Bachmann went to the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in 2007 , where he taught until 2011. He then became professor of economics, especially macroeconomics at RWTH Aachen University , and in 2014 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , where he briefly held the SAFE Chair of Behavioral Economics and Finance. Since August 2014 he was first Associate Professor (with tenure ) for economics at the University of Notre Dame in the USA, since July 2020 he has been a Stepan Family College Professor of Economics there. He has also been visiting professor and professor in the Departments of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania , the University of Michigan, and Harvard University .

Bachmann is a CEPR Research Affiliate as well as a CESifo Research Network Fellow and Ifo Research Professor. Until 2013 he was also an NBER Faculty Research Fellow. From 2012 to 2018 he was Associate Editor of the Economic Journal . Since 2018 he has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , and since 2019 a member of the Editorial Board of Economic Policy Perspectives . From 2015 to 2017, Bachmann was a member of the extended board of directors of the Verein für Socialpolitik as a junior representative . He has been a member of the association's macroeconomics committee since 2015.

His research focus is macroeconomics .

Bachmann is a founding member of Ökonomenstimme, a German-speaking economic authoring platform.

Debates

Bachmann was involved in the so-called newer method dispute in German economics . As a reaction to the reallocation of numerous economic policy chairs as part of new appointments at the University of Cologne , 83 professors of economics wrote an appeal in 2009, “Save economic policy at the universities!”, Which was published in the FAZ . Bachmann, together with the German economists Dirk Krüger and Harald Uhlig , who teach in the USA, then organized a countercall "Rebuild economics according to international standards!", Signed by 188 economists from Germany and abroad, which was published in the Handelsblatt . A year later, Bachmann drew the following public résumé: “I mean, the methodological dispute was important and right [...]. By definition, science is a methodical undertaking and therefore requires methodical reflection. ”The methodological dispute triggered a certain amount of media coverage.

Bachmann was involved in other public debates: He defended modern, Anglo-Saxon economics and its university teaching against student and journalistic critics and rejected their criticism as inappropriate: “If economics were really a radical, hyperrationalist religion that was only there for that purpose is to legitimize exploitation by finance capitalists, then at least 95 percent of current research in economics does not belong to economics. "; he has criticized the German university landscape and described it as partly provincial, especially in economics; and he commented on the so-called dual career problem at German universities compared to the USA: “I maintain that Germany fails to utilize a huge potential of academics abroad who would come immediately if the intellectual side had the family side - this also includes very early childcare appropriate to everyday research - and only when the salary side was correct when the third was, Bachmann rejected the criticism of the Konstanz zoologist Axel Meyer of the current generation of students and explicitly praised his students as well informed and mature. In an article for the magazine research and teaching "Professor is Professor", Bachmann worked out the fundamental difference between the German junior professor and the American assistant professor: the former is often a second-class professor, the latter a full professor on probation. This basic difference would then result in the advantages for young academics in the USA: tenure track , negotiability of salary, equipment and teaching, greater internal faculty and university appreciation. In an interview with FAZIT, Bachmann spoke about sexism in economics. In the dispute over the debt brake , Bachmann has shown himself to be relaxed about national debt in Germany as long as interest rates are low. In an article for the FAZ, Bachmann and the Berkeley economist Ulrike Malmendier spoke out in favor of more top researchers in economic policy advice.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tweet from Rüdiger Bachmann on Twitter ; accessed on August 1, 2019
  2. ↑ Economist's voice: Home .
  3. ↑ Economics: Save economic policy at the universities! .
  4. ↑ Blogs - Handelsblatt Online .
  5. ↑ On the recent dispute over methods - a review .
  6. ^ Nils Goldschmidt: What is and what can order economics? In: FAZ.net . June 19, 2009. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  7. ^ Gebhard Kirchgässner: Economists' dispute: The withdrawal into the national snail shell .
  8. ↑ Thomas P. Gehrig: Economics: Does it hurt if economists can calculate? .
  9. ↑ Viktor Vanberg: Science: Economics is not a second physics .
  10. ↑ Economics: German economists tear themselves apart .
  11. ^ NachDenkSeiten - The Critical Website> Ordoliberal economists call for the final battle .
  12. ↑ Save economic policy .
  13. ↑ Have the university economists failed? .
  14. ↑ Bert Losse: Bad salaries, many obligations: The German university landscape is provincial .
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Axel Meyer: Honor and honesty of the students. In: FAZ.net . April 16, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  17. ↑ I'm a professor and I like my students. In: The time . April 28, 2015, accessed July 23, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ "The academic economics scene has a problem with sexism" . 7th September 2017.
  20. ^ Rüdiger Bachmann, Christian Bayer: Interest policy: Her with the debt . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 9, 2020]).
  21. ^ Rüdiger Bachmann, Ulrike Malmendier: Gone away potential: Why German economic policy needs top researchers . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 9, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1974