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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Siebert (†) |  |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Main Areas of Research |
| Selected Publications |
| Recent Publications |
| Essays |
| Dissertations and Habilitations |
| List of Publications |
Curriculum Vitae
| March 20, 1938 | Born in Neuwied (Rhine) |
| 1959-1963 | Study of Economics at the University of Cologne/Germany and at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., USA (1960-1961) |
| 1965 | Ph.d., at the University of Muenster/Germany, "summa cum laude" |
| 1967-1968 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Texas A & M University, College Station |
| February 1969 | "Habilitation" (equivalent to "Right to teach" and hold a "tenure position"), at the University of Muenster/Germany |
| 1969-1984 | Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim/Germany. Chair "Economics and International Trade" |
| 1980-1981 | Visiting Scholar, Energy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| 1980-1989 | Member of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Agriculture |
| 1984-1989 | Professor of Economics at the University of Konstanz/Germany. Chair "International Economic" |
| since 1985 | Member of Scientific Council at the Ministry of Economics |
| Summer Semester 1986 | Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge |
| April 1, 1989 - March 31, 2003 | President of the Institute of World Economics, Kiel/Germany and Chair "Theoretical Economics" at the University of Kiel |
| December 1990 - February 2003 | Member of the Council of Economic Advisors of Germany (Der Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung" |
| Winter Semester 1990/91 | Chair "Vereniging voor Economie" at the Flemish Universities Antwerp, Brussels, Gent and Leuwen at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent |
| 1995-1999 | Elected Member of the Council of the European Economic Association |
| March 1995 | Jean-Monnet visiting professor at the Robert-Schumann-Centre of the European University Institute of Florence |
| since March 1996 | Member of the Advisory Board for the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum |
| since February 1998 | Member of the Board of Trustees Fritz Thyssen Foundation |
| since January 1999 | Ordinary Member of the Aspen Institute Italia |
| May 6, 1999 | Award: Karl-Bräuer-Prize (German Taxpayer's Association) |
| September 3, 1999 | Award: Ludwig-Erhard-Prize für Wirtschaftspublizistik |
| 1999/2000 | Member of the „Quota Formula Review Group“ of the IMF |
| January 2000 | Member of the Editor's Advisory Board Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik des Vereins für Socialpolitik |
| March 24, 2000 | Honorary Doctorate of the University Gent, Belgium |
| since October 2001 | Member of "the Group of Economic Analysis (GEA)" of the European Commission |
| April 2003 - July 2003 | Professeur Visiteur, Conservatoire National des Arts et des Metiers |
October 1, 2003 | awarded: Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2001 - 2004 | Member of the "Group of Economic Analysis (GEA)", advising President Romano Prodi of the European Commission |
| Academic Year2003/2004 | Steven Muller Chair, SAIS Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins University |
| since January 2004 | Member of the Advisory Committee of the Claremont-Bologna International Economic Policy Forum |
| since January 2004 | Member of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) of the Van Lennep Subsidies Initiative |
| 2004 | Fellow of the European Economic Association |
| 2005 - | Member of the "Group of Economic Policy Analysis (GEPA)", advising President Barroso of the European Commission |
2005 - May 13, 2007 | Member of the IEA Executive Committee of the International Economic Association Council Awarded: Publizistik-Preises (Wirtschaftspublizistik) der Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Stiftung |
| June 2, 2009 | Horst Siebert died in a hospital in Switzerland after a short illness |
| August 5, 2009 | Date of release of the last Monography "Rules for the Global Economy". Princeton: Princeton University Press |
Visiting Scholar at: Australian National University, Canberra; Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; New York University, New York; Resources for the Future, Washington DC; Texas A & M University; University of Aberdeen, Scotland; University of California, Riverside; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Main Areas of Research
International trade, labor market and employment, economy of the environment, general economic policies
Selected Publications
- Regional Economic Growth, Theory and Policy, International Textbook Company, Scranton/USA, 1969.
- Ökonomische Theorie der Umwelt, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1978.
- (et.al.), Trade and Environment. A Theoretical Enquiry, Elsevier, Amsterdam 1980.
- Ökonomische Theorie natürlicher Ressourcen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1983.
- Economics of the Resource-Exporting Country, Intertemporal Theory of Supply and Trade, JAI-Press, Greenwich, Conn., 1985.
- The New Economic Landscape in Europe, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK 1991.
- Europas nya ekonomiska karta, SNS Förlag, Stockholm 1992.
- Das Wagnis der Einheit. Eine wirtschaftspolitische Therapie, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1992.
- Das Wagnis der Einheit. Eine wirtschaftspolitische Therapie, 3. Revised Edition, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1992.
- Das Wagnis der Einheit. Eine wirtschaftspolitische Therapie, Korean Edition, Eulyoo Pub. Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea, 1993.
- Geht den Deutschen die Arbeit aus? Neue Wege zu mehr Beschäftigung, C. Bertelsmann, Munich 1994, revised pocket book edition, Goldmann Verlag, Munich, 1995.
- Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre, Chinese Edition, 1994.
- Economics of the Environment, Theory and Policy, 4th revised edition, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 1995
(1. Edition, D.C. Heath, Lexington 1981). - Weltwirtschaft, Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart, 1997.
- Arbeitslos ohne Ende? Strategien für mehr Beschäftigung, Gabler Verlag,
Wiesbaden 1998. - Außenwirtschaft, Seventh revised edition, Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 2000.
- Der Kobra-Effekt. Wie man Irrwege der Wirtschaftspolitik vermeidet, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart Munich 2001. Revised edition 2002, Paperback-edition, Piper Verlag, Munich 2003. Russian Paperback-edition
(Verlag der Sankt-Petersburger Universität für Wirtschaft und Finanzen) 2003. - The World Economy, 2nd edition, Routledge, London und New York, 2002.
- Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fourteenth totally revised and enlarged edition, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003.
- Economics of the Environment. Theory and Policy. Sixth revised edition,
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2004, Chinese edition 2001. - The German Economy. Beyond the Social Market, Princeton University Press, Princeton (in print).
- Jenseits des sozialen Marktes. Eine notwendige Neuorientierung der deutschen
Politik. München, DVA. - Rules for the Global Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Dissertations and Habilitations
Dissertations (First evaluation report only)
Mannheim: Pethig, Rüdiger (1973), Gronych, Ralf (1979), Vogt, Wolfgang (1979), Gebauer, Helga (1984),
Dudenhöffer, Ferdinand (1983).
Konstanz: Hentschel, Jesko (1991), Keck, Joachim (1989), König, Peter (1989), Meyer, Anke (1989),
Rauscher, Michael (1989).
Kiel: Gundlach, Erich (1992), Koop, Michael J. (1993), Schweickert, Rainer (1993) Stolpe, Michael (1995),
Krämer, Jörg W., (1995), Buch, Claudia (1996), Lorz, Oliver (1996), Raiser, Martin (1996), Thiele, Rainer (1996),
Thomas, Ingo Peter (1996), Heister, Johannes (1996), Maurer, Rainer (1997), Solveen, Ralph (1997), Bartsch, Elga (1997), Bode, Eckhardt (1998), Gern, Klaus-Jürgen (1998), Gröhn, Andreas (1998), Junius, Karsten (1999),
Scholz, Christian M. (1999), Kumkar, Lars (1999), Schimmelpfennig, Axel (2000), Piazolo, Daniel (2000),
Lapp, Susanne (2000), Springer, Katrin (2001), Heinrich, Ralph P. (2001) Pierdzioch, Christian (2001), Gerling, Katja (2001), Wößmann, Ludger (2001), Brauer, Holger (2002), Wolf, Hartmut (2002), Krancke, Jan (2002), Schertler, Andrea (2003), Kleinert, Jörn (2003), Christophe Kamps (2004), Björn Christensen (2004), Oliver Deke (2006).
Habilitations:
Mannheim: Pethig, Rüdiger (1979); Konstanz: Mohr, Ernst (1991); Kiel:Paqué, Karl-Heinz (1995), Rauscher, Michael (1996), Stähler, Frank (1997), Lorz, Oliver (2002), Buch, Claudia (2002).