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Prof. Dr. Ernst Eberlein teaches stochastics and mathematical finance at the University of Freiburg. He studied mathematics in Erlangen and Paris, received his Ph.D. at Erlangen University and his habilitation at ETH Zurich. He spent sabbaticals at Stanford University and at the University of California, San Diego. He is a cofounder of the Freiburg Centre for Data Analysis and Modelling (FDM). At present he is executive secretary of the Bachelier Finance Society. His current research concentrates on more realistic risk management and evaluation of derivative products. Based on intensive empirical studies he introduced a new class of models which is successfully applied in the financial industry. He cooperates with many European Universities through a EU-program on "Statistical Methods for Dynamical Stochastic Models".
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Prof. Bernd Fitzenberger, Ph.D.teaches econometrics and labor economics at the University of Freiburg. He studied economics and mathematics at the University of Konstanz. He then continued for the Master in Statistics (1992) and the Ph.D. in economics (1993) at Stanford University. In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz. He was then associate professor for Social Policy at the Technical University of Dresden (1998-1999), full professor for econometrics at the University of Mannheim (1999-2004), and full professor for labor economics at the University of Frankfurt (2004-2007). His research focuses on labor economics and microeconometric methods. Currently, he works on the following topics: wage structure, unions/wage bargaining, duration of unemployment, evaluation of active labor market policies, vocational training and quantile regression. He is permanent research fellow of the ZEW in Mannheim, the IZA in Bonn as well as international research affiliate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. He is also one of the Editors of the journal Empirical Economics and he is one of the three coordinators of the DFG research network on ‘Flexibility in heterogeneous labor markets’.
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Prof. Dr. Günter Knieps is professor of economics at the University of Freiburg and director of the Institute of Transport Economics and Regional Policy. Prior to that he held a position as professor of microeconomics at Groningen (Netherlands). He studied economics and mathematics and obtained his Ph.D. in Bonn. He held post-doc positions at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania and obtained his Habilitation in Bern (Switzerland). Numerous publications on network economics, (de-) regulation, competition policy, industrial economics, and sector studies on network industries (e.g. telecommunications, internet, transport, and energy). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Councils of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Construction and Urban Development).
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Prof. Dr. Oliver Landmann has been teaching economics at the University of Freiburg since 1986. He is a graduate of the University of Basle, Switzerland. His major research interests are macroeconomic theory, the theory of unemployment, and international economics. He held previous positions at the University of Basle and the Swiss National Bank. He also served as a program director for the Swiss Science Foundation. His publications include two books on foreign economic policy challenges for Switzerland and on unemployment theory.
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JProf. Dr. Eva Lütkebohmert-Holtz teaches financial economics at the University of Freiburg since 2009. She studied mathematics in Bonn and Toronto and received her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Bonn in 2004. She has been working in a research department for banking supervision at the Deutsche Bundesbank and was Juniorprofessor at the faculty of social sciences and economics at the University of Bonn. Currently she is leading the research group financial mathematics: “Pricing of Risks in Incomplete Markets” at the Institute for Research in Economic Evolution in Freiburg which is funded by the German Research Foundation. Her research concentrates on quantitative risk management, in particular credit risk modeling and the regulatory framework. Her publications include a book on concentration risk in credit portfolios.
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Prof. Dr. Günther Müller is Director of the Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies. Ph.D., U. Duisburg, 1976. Assistant Professor, U. of Vienna, 1983. Founder, Director: IBM's Centre for Network Research, Heidelberg, 1985. Found-ing Director: Institute for Computer Science and Social Studies, U. of Freiburg, 1990. 1994-1998 Coordinator: Kolleg "Security in Communication Technology", (Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation). Since 1998 Coordinator DFG Priority Pro-gramme "Security in Information and Communication Technology". Scientific Advisor, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology; Enquete-Commission "The Future of Media in Business and Society" (German Federal Parliament); Enquete-Commission on "Development, Chances and Impact of New Information and Communication Technology" (State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg); and DaimlerChrysler. Author of 7 books and numerous articles in scientific conferences and journals. Research visits to Hitachi (Japan), NTT (Japan), ICSI (UC Berkeley), and Harvard University.
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Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumärker is a professor of Economics at University of Freiburg. He received his Dipl. oec. from University of Hohenheim, Ph.D., Habilitation and venia legendi from Ruhr-University Bochum. His professional career is: Assistant professor of economics/public finance at the Ruhr-University Bochum, teaching constitutional public finance and contract economics at the Graduate College "Allocation Theory, Economic Policy, and Collective Decisions" of the Ruhr-University Bochum and the University of Dortmund, Visiting Lecturer of the DAAD at the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", Visiting Fellow at the Public Sector Economics Research Centre (PSERC), University of Leicester and Research Fellow at the Walter Eucken Institute, Freiburg. Main research areas are constitutional economics, collective action, economics of contracts, political economy of reform, conflict economics, and economic analysis of social justice.
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Prof. Dr. Dirk Neumann is an assistant professor at University of Freiburg, where he holds the chair of Information Systems as deputy. He obtained a Diploma from the University of Gießen and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In 2004 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe. His main research areas comprise Market and Service Engineering in service-oriented computing, Grid computing, Supply Chain Management, Green IT and Energy Management. Currently, he is coordinating the EU-funded project “Self-organizing ICT resource Management”, which deals with the set-up of markets in Grid computing environments.
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Prof. Dr. OIaf Rank is professor or business administration and holds the chair of organization and human resource management at the University of Freiburg. He studies business administration and economics at the Universities of Hohenheim and Mannheim where he also earned his Ph.D. in 2003. He continued his academic career as senior research assistant in the Department of Management at the University of Bern (2003-2005) and as assistant professor of International Management at the same University. In 2008, he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern and was subsequently promoted full professor for business administration, especially organization and management at the University of Goettingen before joining the faculty in Freiburg in 2011. His current research focuses on inter- as well as intraorganizational structures of knowledge exchange and cooperation, structures and systems of corporate governance, organization theory,and social network analysis.
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Prof. Dr. Günther G. Schulze is Professor of Economics at the Economics Department. He received an MA in Economics (Dipl.-Volkswirt) 1988 from the University of Hamburg, and an MA in International Economics (lic.oec.int.) 1989 from the University of Konstanz. After completing his Ph.D. at University of Konstanz in 1995 he went to Stanford University 1995/96 as a visiting scholar, and became assistant professor at the University of Konstanz in 1996 where he received his Habilitation and venia legendi for economics in 2000. He was associate visiting professor for resource economics at the Technical University Freiberg 2000/2001. Since spring 2001 he has been full professor of economics at the University of Freiburg where he holds a chair in international economic policy. Günther Schulze is joint editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics. His main research areas are international economics, international environmental economics, international political economics, cultural economics, and decentralization in developing countries. |  |
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