Wolfgang Wiegard

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Wolfgang Wiegard (born February 17, 1946 in Berlin ) is a German economist and since May 2011 emeritus professor of economics at the University of Regensburg . He was a member of the Advisory Council for the Assessment of Macroeconomic Development (also known as “the five economic modes”), of which he was chairman from April 2002 to March 2005.

Life

After taking the diploma in economics at the University of Heidelberg in 1972 , he received his doctorate in June 1977. rer. pol ( summa cum laude ). In December 1981 he completed his habilitation in economics, which was followed by a teaching position at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg in the 1982/83 winter semester . In 1984 he finally completed a research stay at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario .

From 1985 to 1994 he held the chair for economics, especially finance, at the University of Regensburg . Since that time he has also been a liaison professor at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . In the winter semester of 1988/89 he was visiting professor at the University of Vienna , and in 1989 at Sfb 3, University of Frankfurt am Main. Between 1989 and 1997 he was co-editor and from 1997 to 2001 editor of the FinanzArchiv.

Since 1990 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance , declined a call to the Free University of Berlin in 1991, and from 1994 to 2002 he was a member (chairman from 1997 to 2001) of the Scientific Advisory Board at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin .

From 1994 to 1999 he held the Chair for Economics I, especially Public Finance, at the University of Tübingen , and since 1996 he has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in Munich.

From 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the extended board of the Verein für Socialpolitik , and until 1999 he was a member of the Economics Committee of the Advisory Board for Science and University Issues of the Bavarian State Minister for Education, Culture, Science and Art.

Since 1998 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Berlin, and since 1998 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ecological Tax Reform Association . From 1999 he held the chair for Economics IV at the University of Regensburg until he retired in May 2011.

2000–2002 he was chairman of the DFG expert committee for economics, from 2001 to February 28, 2011 he was a member (chairman 2002 to 2005) of the council of experts for the assessment of macroeconomic development, since 2001 research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin (DIW Berlin) and since 2003 full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences - Philosophical-historical class.

Since October 2009 he has also been a member of the “Council of Real Estate Wise Men”. He is also an associated member of the IREBS Real Estate Institute at the University of Regensburg.

Wolfgang Wiegard is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Ver.di trade union . He sees himself "clearly as a neoclassical economist"; so he mostly represents economic positions that can be assigned to supply theory . His research interests in general are finance, social policy and numerical equilibrium models.

Others

Wolfgang Wiegard is guitarist in the professors' band Wise Noise . His son Frank Wiegard is an actor at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Wiegard: The Neoclassical Social Democrat , Handelsblatt , November 12, 2002
  2. ↑ Bavarian Elite Network FORUM - Quo vadis Monetary Union? Elitenetzwerk Bayern , January 26, 2012, accessed January 3, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Elitenetzwerk Bayern FORUM on January 24, 2012: “Quo vadis Monetary Union?” Elitenetzwerk Bayern , December 9, 2011, accessed on January 3, 2013 .
  4. ↑ A higher top tax rate would be "complete madness". Die Welt , February 2, 2011, accessed January 3, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiegard, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin