Rainer Klump

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Rainer Klump (born September 27, 1958 in Darmstadt ) is a German economist . He is Professor of Economics and was Rector of the University of Luxembourg from 2015 to 2017 .

academic career

From 1978 to 1983 he studied economics at the universities of Mainz , Paris I (with a scholarship from the Franco-German Youth Office) and Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1985/86 he completed a research stay in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. In 1987, he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation for his dissertation . From 1992 to 1997 he was Professor of Economics and Economic Development at the Economics Institute of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . From 1997 to 2000 he held the Chair of Economic Policy ( Ludwig Erhard Foundation Professorship ) at Ulm University . From October 2000 to 2015 and since 2017 he has held the chair for economics, especially economic development and integration at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . During this time he was a member of the DFG research group (FOR 756) "Vulnerability to Poverty in Southeast Asia", a founding member of the Cluster of Excellence " The Formation of Normative Orders " and a member of the interregional research program "Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO)". From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the expert committee for economics of the German Research Foundation. Research stays took him to the University of Lyon II , the University of Paris-Dauphine and Sciences Po Paris.

From 2009 to 2015 he was Vice President of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main . On January 15, 2015, he took over the post of Rector of the University of Luxembourg . He resigned from this office on May 2, 2017.

Publications

  • Economic history of the Federal Republic of Germany. On the criticism of more recent economic-historical interpretations from a regulatory perspective. Contributions to economic and social history, Volume 29, Stuttgart 1985.
  • Origin and use of international key currencies. Theoretical explanations, historical experiences, economic policy conclusions. Hamburg 1986.
  • Introduction to Economic Policy. Theoretical basics and application examples. Munich 1989, 2nd edition 1992.
  • (Ed.) Forty years of German marks. The political and economic significance of the West German currency reform of 1948. Contributions to economic and social history, Volume 39, Stuttgart 1989.
  • Money, the monetary system and optimal growth. A contribution to monetary growth theory. Tubingen 1993.
  • Economic policy. Instruments, goals and institutions. 3rd edition Munich 2013 (2nd edition Munich 2011; 1st edition Munich 2006)

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ http://wwwen.uni.lu/university/news/latest_news/university_nominates_prof_dr_rainer_klump_as_new_president
  2. ↑ https://www.wort.lu/de/politik/uni-luxemburg-rektor-rainer-klump-erklaert-ruecktritt-5908a3cda5e74263e13bdfe5
personal data
SURNAME Klump, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt