Roland Eisen

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Roland Eisen (born February 26, 1941 in Stuttgart ) is a German economist and social policy scientist specializing in insurance science.

Life

Roland Eisen was born in Stuttgart, where he attended school, acquired his university entrance qualification and began studying economics in 1960 . After completing his intermediate diploma, he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), where he graduated in 1965 with a degree in economics . As a research assistant at the Institute for Insurance Science at the LMU, he received his doctorate in 1971 with an interdisciplinary dissertation at the intersection of economics, social and technical sciences as a doctor of oeconomiae publicae .

In the following years, Roland Eisen expanded his interdisciplinary beginning to include political science , socio-cybernetic and communication- theoretical aspects and in 1977 he formed a first synthesis with a habilitation thesis on the theory of the insurance balance.

From 1978 to 1979 Eisen held a substitute professorship for social policy at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg , from 1981 to 1983 he was professor for household economics at the Technical University of Munich / Campus Weihenstephan . In 1983 Roland Eisen was appointed to the full professorship for economic and labor market policy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He has been retired since 2007.

As part of his Frankfurt university professorship, Eisen held various academic functions and positions, such as the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Economics there in the academic year 1992/93. He taught as visiting professor in 1993 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and in 1998 at the Norwegian School of Commerce in Bergen . He also held teaching positions at the Munich School of Politics , the German Insurance Academy and the Hessian Administration and Business Academy .

Roland Eisen's research focuses on economic and social policy (in particular labor economics and health economics ), insurance theory and business cycle , growth and distribution theory . From 1992 to 1997, Eisen headed an interdisciplinary research project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation on alternatives to long-term care insurance in the EC (“PflEG project”). Since 1997 he has headed a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) "Evaluation of the Effects of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act on intrafamilary long-term care insurance arrangements".

Roland Eisen is the leading initiator and organizer of national and international specialist congresses on political and economic issues. He also advises various governments as an expert on social security systems.

Awards

  • 1978 Ernst Meyer Prize for Scientific Research of the Geneva Association (in special recognition of the habilitation thesis)

Memberships

  • American Economic Association
  • American Risk and Insurance Association
  • Econometric Society
  • European Risk Association
  • Society for Risk Analysis
  • European Economic Association
  • Association for Social Policy (Sections for Social Policy and Health Economics)
  • German Association for Insurance Science
  • German Society for Housekeeping

Scientific publications (monographs)

  • Technical progress and economic growth - contributions to a theory of technical progress (together with Angelika Karger), Munich (dissertation) 1971.
  • Theory of Insurance Equilibrium - Uncertainty and Insurance in the Theory of General Economic Equilibrium , Habilitation Thesis Munich 1976, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 1979.
  • General Economics (together with W. Mahr), Wiesbaden 1981; 3rd edition 1986.
  • Entrepreneurial Insurance Industry - Consequences of Deregulation for the Order of Competition and Corporate Management (together with W. Müller and P. Zweifel), Wiesbaden 1990.
  • Basics of Economics I + II , Wiesbaden 1992, 2nd edition 1996.
  • Damage cost forecast (together with M. and M. Busshart Maneth), Wiesbaden 1998th
  • Insurance economics (together with P. Zweifel), Berlin et al. 2000, 2nd edition 2002.
  • Insurance Economics (Springer Texts in Business and Economics) (together with P. Zweifel), Berlin and Heidelberg 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eisen, Roland, Technical Progress and Economic Growth - Contributions to a Theory of Technical Progress (together with Angelika Karger), Munich 1971.
  2. ^ Eisen, Roland, Theory of Insurance Equilibrium - Uncertainty and Insurance in the Theory of General Economic Equilibrium, Munich 1976, Berlin 1979.
  3. ↑ Comprehensive list of publications at http://www.rolandeisen.de
personal data
SURNAME Eisen, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and social policy scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart