Robert K. von Weizsäcker

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Robert Klaus Freiherr von Weizsäcker (born December 6, 1954 in Essen ) is a German economist . He is a full professor of economics at the Technical University of Munich ( TUM School of Management ) and honorary president of the German Chess Federation . He comes from the Palatinate - Württemberg family Weizsäcker and is the eldest son of the former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and his wife Marianne . His sister is Beatrice von Weizsäcker , his two brothers who have already died were Andreas von Weizsäcker and Fritz von Weizsäcker .

Life

Robert von Weizsäcker studied mathematics and economics at the University of Bonn . After graduating with a degree in economics in 1980, he did his doctorate at the London School of Economics / University of Bonn in 1985 and his habilitation at the University of Bonn in 1990.

After two years as a private lecturer at the University of Bonn and the Humboldt University of Berlin , Robert von Weizsäcker became a full professor of economics at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1992 . In 1995 he moved to the University of Mannheim to take a chair in economics, finance and economic policy. After a call to the Goethe University Frankfurt was rejected in 2001, he has been professor of economics, finance and industrial economics at the Technical University of Munich since 2003 .

He was a co-signer of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Threat to Europe (1992).

He was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge , the Université Catholique de Louvain , the London School of Economics , Stanford University , the University of Oxford and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC From 2003 to 2007 he was a faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London from 1994 to 2004 . He is a Research Fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich and the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. He received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation and was a member of the Science Council from 1997 to 1999 .

His main research areas include public finance (public debt, tax reform and financing of social security systems), microeconomics (income and wealth distribution, decision theory), educational economics and population economics.

Robert von Weizsäcker is correspondence chess - Grand Master and member of the German Correspondence Chess Team. He was team world champion 2008, Olympic champion of the 13th correspondence chess Olympiad 2004–2009 and silver medalist of the 16th correspondence chess Olympiad 2014. In the 1970s he played a total of five competitions for the Bonn SK in the four-track Bundesliga . From 2007 to 2011 he was President of the German Chess Federation , in 2011 he decided not to run again. In 2010 Robert von Weizsäcker applied for the office of President of the European Chess Union , but was not elected. In the 2010 election of the FIDE President in Khanty-Mansiysk , he unsuccessfully supported the former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov against the incumbent President Kirsan Ilyumschinow . Robert von Weizsäcker has been Honorary President of the German Chess Federation since 2011.

He has been with the teacher Gabriele Freifrau von Weizsäcker born in 1983. von Meer (* 1956), a daughter of Werner von Meer (1920–2012), the former owner of the Stüttgenhof near Cologne . They have three daughters together.

Robert von Weizsäcker is a licensed radio amateur with the callsign DL1BOB.

Publications (selection)

  • Theory of distribution of labor income ; Tübingen: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1986. ISBN 9783163451100
  • "Neoclassical Finance"; Finanzarchiv , NF Volume 46 (3), 1988, 513-525.
  • "Demographic Change and Income Distribution"; European Economic Review , 33 (3), 1989, 377-388.
  • "Population Aging and Social Security: A Politico-Economic Model of State Pension Financing"; Public Finance 45 (3), 1990, 491-509.
  • "Demography, Democracy, and Distribution"; in: J. Pacolet and C. Wilderom (Eds.): The Economics of Care of the Elderly ; London: Gower Publishing Co., 1991, 38-50.
  • "National Debt and Democracy"; Kyklos , 45 (1), 1992, 51-67.
  • "Income Distribution and Efficiency: The Role of Social Security"; with M. Nerlove, A. Razin and E. Sadka; Public Finance 47 (3), 1992, 462-475.
  • A Theory of Earnings Distribution ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 9780521342940
  • Population development, pension financing and income distribution ; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993. ISBN 9783642783142
  • "Comprehensive Income Taxation, Investments in Human and Physical Capital, and Productivity"; with M. Nerlove, A. Razin, E. Sadka; Journal of Public Economics , 50 (3), 1993, 397-406.
  • "Public Pension Reform, Demographics, and Inequality"; Journal of Population Economics , 8 (2), 1995, 205-221.
  • "Educational Choice, Lifetime Earnings Inequality, and Conflicts of Public Policy"; Journal of Income Distribution , 6 (1), 1996, 67-89.
  • "Distributive Implications of an Aging Society"; European Economic Review , 40 (4), 1996, 729-746.
  • "Financial Policy"; in: J. von Hagen, PJJ Welfens, A. Börsch-Supan (eds.): Springer's Handbook of Economics , Volume 2; Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997, 123–180.
  • Education and Economic Growth (Ed.); Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1998. ISBN 9783428094615
  • Deregulation and Financing of Education (Ed.); Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1998. ISBN 9783428097241
  • "Equal Opportunities, Status Mobility and Public Investment in Education"; in: D. Timmermann (Ed.): Vocational training from a European perspective ; Writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, NF Volume 267; Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1999, 93-113.
  • "Public Debt, Pension Insurance and Education: Future Weaknesses of Competitive Democracy"; in: HH von Arnim (Hrsg.): Adequate Institutions: Requirements for good and citizen-oriented politics? ; Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1999, 103-131.
  • School and University Organization (Ed.); Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2000. ISBN 9783428101528
  • Education and Employment (Ed.); Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2001. ISBN 9783428106318
  • "Risk, Resources, and Education: Public versus Private Financing of Higher Education"; with BU Wigger; IMF Staff Papers , 48 (3), 2001, 547-560.
  • "Educational Reform in Democracy"; with A. Kemnitz; Quarterly books on economic research , 72 (2), 2003, 188–204.
  • "For the capital market-oriented valuation of non-listed companies"; in: P. Wollmert et al. (Ed.): Auditing and company monitoring ; Düsseldorf: IDW-Verlag, 2003, 573-582.
  • "Pension Funding and Intergenerational Justice: A Growth Theory Perspective"; with BU Wigger; in: M. Rose (Ed.): Integrated tax and social system ; Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003, 437–459.
  • "The German Exhibition Industry: A Subsidy Trap"; ifo Schnelldienst , 58 (3), 2005, 7-10.
  • "Beauty in Chess"; in: U. Dossi (Ed.): Schach ; 2005, 40-47. KARL ; 2008 (2), 52-53.
  • "Natural disasters: compulsory insurance or government action?"; with C. Feilcke and B. Süßmuth; WISU , 35 (8), 2006, 1111-1116.
  • "Inefficiency in German educational federalism"; with C. Amann and B. Süssmuth; in: N. Wohlgemuth (Ed.): Labor, Human Capital and Economic Policy ; Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, Volume 547; Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006, 247-278.
  • "Income and Income Distribution"; in: W. Heun et al. (Ed.): Evangelisches Staatslexikon ; Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2006, 425-431.
  • "On the value of money"; with B. Sussmuth; Informationes Theologiae Europae , 14, 2007, 161–175.
  • "Government Debt and the Portfolios of the Rich"; with B. Sussmuth; in: SP Jenkins, J. Micklewright (Ed.): Inequality and Poverty Re-examined ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 268-283.
  • "Family Business: Successful in the Long Term?"; with K. Krempel; in: I. Hausladen (Ed.): Management at the cutting edge : strategies, concepts and methods , volume 1: corporate management; Munich: TCW Transfer-Centrum, 2007, 71–83.
  • "Man versus Machine"; TUM, mimeo, 2007.
  • "Chess as a playful answer to PISA"; Chess magazine 64 ; 2007 (6).
  • "Excessive budget deficits and the institutional design of EU budget policy"; with C. Feilcke and B. Süßmuth; in: V. Ulrich and W. Ried (eds.): Efficiency, Quality and Sustainability in Health Care ; Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007, 3–22.
  • "Representative Democracy and Public Debt: A Strategic Doom"; in: R. Th. Baus et al. (Ed.): On the reform of the federal financial constitution in Germany ; Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008, 87–97.
  • "Regional airports - dream or nightmare of regional economic policy? On the inefficiency of the German airport system"; with M. Steininger; in: Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung (Ed.): Seminar report 51; Heidelberg 2009, 93–125.
  • "Ratio, Intuition and Time"; Munich: mimeo , 2010.
  • "Shooting Rampages and Maintenance of Campus Safety: An Incomplete Contracts Perspective"; with B. Sussmuth; Review of Law and Economics , 7, 2011, 573-600.
  • "Does inequality have a negative impact on economic growth?"; with Th. Bredl and M. Horvath; WiSt , 41, 2012, 532-539.
  • "Forward and backward induction in strategic decisions"; with M. Sahm; WISU , 41 (11), 2012, 1494-1498.
  • "Cubic Cost Functions and Major Market Structures"; with O. Nikutowski and V. Leis; Journal of Economic Education , 44 (1), 2013.
  • The King's Plan ; with Stefan Kindermann ; Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 2nd edition 2013. ISBN 9783498073701
  • "The Idea of ​​Economic Laws: Some Considerations on Rationality, Historicity, and Objectivity in Economics"; with M. Horvath; European Review (Academia Europaea, Cambridge University Press), 22 (1), 2014, 163-179.
  • "Reason, Intuition, and Time"; with M. Sahm; Managerial and Decision Economics , 37, 2016, 195–207.
  • Inequality - A Fantastic Tale ; with P. Dossi; Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag, 2016. ISBN 9783658105051
  • "National Accounts"; with M. Horvath; Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon , 19th edition; Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler, 2017.
  • "Representative Democracy and Public Debt: A Strategic Doom" - Update; Munich: mimeo, 2019.
  • "Coordinating Intergenerational Redistribution and the Repayment of Public Debt"; with Chr. March; Social Choice and Welfare , 54, 2020.
  • "National Debt - Corona and the Incentive Mechanisms of Competitive Democracy"; Munich, mimeo, 2020.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News from the DSB , article at the DSB, June 9, 2011
  2. ↑ Two new appointments strengthen the new faculty ; Press release from the Technical University of Munich , December 13, 2002
  3. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
  4. ^ Robert K. von Weizsäcker on the ICCF website: Featured Game ( Memento from August 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). 23–24 August 2009
  5. ↑ Johannes Eising , Karl-Heinz Podzielny , Gerd Treppner: Schach-Bundesliga 1974-80 , Bamberger Schachverlag, Bamberg 1981, ISBN 3-923113-00-5 , page 106
  6. ↑ Interview from May 10, 2007
  7. ^ Dagobert Kohlmeyer : Old opponents on a common mission . May 27, 2010, accessed June 1, 2010
  8. ^ German Chess Federation: Honors in the field of the German Chess Federation. Retrieved July 7, 2018 .
  9. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser Vol. VI, Vol. 62 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1976, p. 448.
  10. ↑ geneall.net Robert Klaus, Freiherr von Weizsäcker, accessed on November 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Weizsäcker, Robert K. von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weizsäcker, Robert Klaus Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, professor of economics at the Technical University of Munich
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH eat