Professors

Professors

	Prof. Dr. Lutz Bellmann Chair of Economics Labour Economics
	Research: Labour market economics, in particular questions of wage structures and employment dynamics, vocational education and training and further training, and the employment of older employees.

 

	Prof. Dr. Thiess Büttner (Director) Chair of Economics Public Finance
	Research: Empirical economic research, corporate taxation, tax competition, fiscal federalism, fiscal politics.

 

	Prof. Dr. Jonas Dovern Chair of Economics Statistics and Econometrics
	Research: Time series econometrics (especially related to forecasting) and empirical macroeconomics (especially the analysis of survey-based macroeconomic expectations).

 

	Prof. Bernd Fitzenberger, Ph.D. Chair of Quantitative Labor Economics
	Research: Equality of income and salaries, employment trends, evaluation of measures in the field of labor market and education policy, vocational training and the transition from school to the labor market.

 

	Prof. Dr. Mario Liebensteiner Assistant Professorship of Energy Markets and Energy Systems Analysis
	Research: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Regulatory Economics

 

	Prof. Dr. Christian Merkl Chair of Economics Macroeconomics
	Research: Macroeconomics (especially monetary and fiscal policy), macroeconomic analysis of labor markets and the intersection of both fields.

 

	Prof. Dr. Markus Nagler Assistant Professorship for Labor and Innovation Economics
	Research: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Innovation Economics.

 

	Prof. Dr. Johannes Rincke Chair of Economics Economic Policy
	Research: Financial economics, urban economics, political economics, law and economics.

 

	Prof. Regina T. Riphahn, Ph.D. Chair of Statistics and Empirical Economic Research
	Research: Research of the chair focuses on empirical education, labor market, personell, social policy as well as health economics.

 

	Prof. Dr. Claus Schnabel Chair of Economics Labour Market and Regional Policy
	Research: Work councils and employer’s associations, wage policy, employee participation, Lohnbildung, wage differentials, labor market effects, labor law, monopsonies and entrepreneurship.

 

	Prof. Dr. Gesine Stephan Chair of Economics Empirical Microeconomics
	Research: Applied micro-econometric labor market research, evaluation of labor market programs, justice perceptions, field experiments.

 

	Prof. Dr. Harald Tauchmann Professor for Health Economics
	Research: Health insurance choice and competition, economics of drug consumption, health care efficiency and incentives for health-conscious behavior.

 

	Prof. Dr. Gregor Zöttl Professor of Economics Industrial Organization and Energy Markets
	Research: Applied microeconomics, industrial economics with focus on partially regulated industries, environment and resource economics. One emphasis is put on energy markets.

Affiliated Professors

	Prof. Dr. Christine Binzel Chair of Economics Economy and Society of the Middle East
	Research: Development economics, economic history, behavioral economics, causal inference.

 

	Prof. Dr. Andreas Landmann Professor for Economics: Development Economics
	Research: Development Economics, Impact Evaluation, Experimental Economics, Insurance, Health.

 

	Prof. Dr. Frauke Liers Professor for Optimization under Uncertainty & Data Analysis
	Research: Combinatorial and mixed-integer linear and non-linear optimization, optimization under uncertainty, especially robust optimization.

 

	Prof. Dr. Christoph Moser Chair of Global Governance
	Research: International economics, international trade and labor, trade policy and political economy.

 

	Prof. Dr. Sarah Necker Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics
	Research: Public economics, labor economics, behavorial economics, economics of science.

 

	Prof. Dr. Matthias Wrede Chair of Economics Social Politics
	Research: Social policy and public finance; linking social security, especially pension and health insurance, with demographic change; connection between family relation, social policy and labor markets.

Emeriti

 

	Prof. Dr. Ingo Klein Chair of Economics Statistics and Econometrics
	Research: Theory of measurement and statistics, copulas with their applications in finance and marketing, inspection of robustness of statistical procedures and software reliability.