Thomas Eger (economist)

Thomas Eger (* 1949 in Kassel ) is a German economist who is particularly concerned with the economic analysis of law .

Eger studied economics in Marburg and Zagreb from 1969 to 1974 . After graduating in Marburg and working as an assistant at the Universities of Göttingen , Kassel and Paderborn , Eger received his doctorate in 1980 at the University of Paderborn. In 1995 he completed his habilitation in an economic analysis of long-term contracts at the University of Kassel. In 2000 Eger became an adjunct professor in Kassel and has been professor at the University of Hamburg and director of the Institute for Law and Economics since 2001 . His main fields of research are the economic analysis of law, institutional economics and European integration . Eger is also a member of the Association for Social Policy . From 2001 to 2004 he was chairman of the committee for system comparison and institutional economics.

Fonts

• Yugoslavia: property relations and workers' self-management . Cologne 1978 (together with P. Dobias, HC Iversen, G. Juretzka).
• New microeconomics . 5th edition, Heidelberg 2005 (together with Peter Weise , Wolfgang Brandes and Manfred Kraft ); 1st edition 1979.
• The regional development gap in Yugoslavia . Paderborn 1980.
• Business Law II. With an introduction to the economic analysis of law . 4th edition, Munich 2003 (together with B. Nagel).
• An economic analysis of long-term contracts . Marburg 1995.
• European Integration. Law and Economics, History and Politics . Munich 2006 (together with Hans-Jürgen Wagener and Heiko Fritz).

Web links

• Web presence of Thomas Eger
• Institute for Law and Economics
• Literature by and about Thomas Eger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Thomas Eger at perlentaucher.de