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Ifo Institute Poschingerstraße 5 81679 Munich Phone +49 (89) 9224 1279 Fax +49 (89) 9224 1901
Center for Economic Studies (CES) Ludwig-Maximilians-University Schackstrasse 4 80539 Munich (Germany) Phone:+49 (89) 2180 2747 Fax: +49 (89) 397 303
March 7, 1948, Brake, Westfalia, Germany
Married since 1971 to Gerlinde Sinn, nee Zoubek, three children (Annette, Philipp, and Rüdiger, born 1976, 1978, and 1982)
President, Ifo Institute (since February 1999)
Director, Center for Economic Studies (CES), University of Munich (since January 1991)
Professor, University of Munich (since 1984), chair for economics and public finance
CEO CESifo Inc. (since February 1999)
Ass./Full Professor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada (1978 - 1979, 1984 - 1985)
Associate Professor (C2), University of Mannheim (1983)
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Mannheim (1974 - 1983)
Lecturer, Institute of Public Economics, University of Münster (1972 - 1974)
Habilitation and venia legendi in economics, University of Mannheim (1983)
Dr.rer.pol., University of Mannheim (1978)
Diplom Volkswirt, University of Münster (1972)
10th European Economy Lecture, College of Europe, Brügge (2011)
Heinrich Heine Professorship of Economics, University of Düsseldorf (2011)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Helsinki (2011)
D.B Doran Lecture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010)
Agnar Sandmo Lecture, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (2009)
Gustav Stolper Prize, Verein für Socialpolitik (2008)
Europe Award, Maastricht University (2008)
Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Bavarian Order of Merit) (2008)
Thünen Lecture, Verein für Socialpolitik (2007)
Jelle Zijlstra Lecture, Freie Universität Amsterdam (2006)
Böhm-Bawerk Lectures, Wien (2006)
The World Economy Annual Lecture, University of Nottingham (2005)
Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) (2005)
International Book Prize CORINE (2004)
Tinbergen Lecture, Royal Netherlands Economic Association (2004)
Economic Book Prize of Financial Times Deutschland and getAbstract AG (2003)
Prize of the Advisory Council of the Union e.V. (2003)
Stevenson Lectures on Citizenship, University of Glasgow (2000)
Distinguished Scholar, Atlantic Economic Society (2000)
Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1999)
Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, University of Helsinki (1999)
Dr. rer.pol.h.c., University of Magdeburg (1999)
Prize of the Herbert Quandt Foundation (1997)
Honorary Professor, University of Vienna (1988)
First university prize for habilitation thesis (1984, Schitag Stiftung)
First university prize for doctoral dissertation (1979, Stiftung Rheinische Hypothekenbank)
Visiting Fellow, Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) (2006)
Visiting Fellow, Princeton University (1998)
Bogen Visiting Chair, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1997)
Visiting Professor, Oslo University (1997)
Visiting Professor, Stanford University (1990)
Olin Visiting Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (1990)
International Monetary Fund (1990)
Research Fellow, London School of Economics (1989)
Research Fellow, NAVF, University of Bergen (1987)
Dutch Economics Workshop, Groningen (2000)
Dutch Economics Workshop, Utrecht (1991)
Lectures, University of Vienna (since 1988)
Lectures, Stanford University (1990)
Lecturer at Deutsche Versicherungsakademie, Munich (1987 - 1989)
Lectures at University of Giessen (1984)
Lecturer at Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie Baden (1978 - 1984)
Honorary President, International Institute of Public Finance (since 2009)
President, International Institute of Public Finance (2006-2009)
Foundation Board Charlemagne Prize of Aachen (since 2007)
Chairman, Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association; 1997 - 2000)
Government Committee on German Housing Policy, Chairman (1992 - 1994)
Founding Member of Neue Handelshochschule Leipzig (1994/1995)
Advisor to the Bolivian Government (1993)
Chairman, Faculty of Economics, University of Munich (1991 - 1993)
Organizer of the European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Munich (1989)
Strategic Advisory Board for the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (since 2006)
Advisory Council of the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), University of Western Ontario (since 2002)
Scientific Advisory Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (since 2002)
European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo (since 2001)
North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (since 2001)
Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association): - International Economics section - Public Finance section - Economic Theory section - Council 1988 - 1990 and since 1997
Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Historical Philosophical Class (since 1996)
International Institute of Public Finance, Executive Board (1995 - 2003), Vice President (2000 - 2003)
Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Copenhagen Business School, Council (since 1992)
European Economic Association, Council (1990 - 1994 and 1997-2002), Fellow (since 2004)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Mass., Research Associate (since 1989)
Economic Policy Panel, London (1985/86 and 1991/92)
Council of Economic Advisors, Ministry of Economics, Germany (since 1989)
Economic Policy (senior editor, since 1995)
Finanzarchiv (associate editor, since 1993; advisory editor, since 2006)
CESifo Economic Studies (associate editor, since 2003)
De Economist (board member, since 1993)
Journal of Economic Literature (advisory editor, 1998 - 2003)
Finnish Economic Papers (associate editor, since 2002)
Journal of Public Economics (advisory editor, 1994 - 2002)
International Tax and Public Finance (associate editor, 1994 - 1998)
European Economic Review (associate editor, 1986 - 1993)
Beiträge zur Finanzwissenschaft, Mohr-Siebeck (since 1996)
Munich Lectures, MIT Press, (since 1996)
The Green Paradox, forthcoming with MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., two German editions 2008 and 2009.
Casino Capitalism. How the Financial Crisis Came about and What Needs to Be Done Now, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, 400 pages (3 German editions 2009 and 2010).
Risk Taking, Limited Liability, and the Banking Crisis, Selected Reprints, Ifo Institute: Munich 2009, 200 pages.
Can Germany be Saved? The Malaise of the World’s First Welfare State, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2007, 356 pages.
Die Basar-Ökonomie. Deutschland: Exportweltmeister oder Schlusslicht?, Econ Verlag: Berlin 2005, 249 pages.
The New Systems Competition, Yrjö-Jahnsson Lectures, Basil Blackwell: Oxford 2003, 228 pages.
Jumpstart. The Economic Unification of Germany, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. etc. 1992, 238 pages, with Gerlinde Sinn. (Second English edition 1993; German editions: Kaltstart, Mohr: Tübingen 1991, 1992, and DTV: Munich, 1993; Korean, French and Russian editions 1994.)
Capital Income Taxation and Resource Allocation, North Holland: Amsterdam etc. 1987, 411 pages. (German edition Kapitaleinkommensbesteuerung, J.C.B. Mohr: Tübingen 1985).
Economic Decisions under Uncertainty, North Holland: Amsterdam etc. 1983, 359 pages. (German edition Ökonomische Entscheidungen bei Ungewißheit, Mohr: Tübingen 1980, second English edition: Physica: Heidelberg 1989).
"Public Policies against Global Warming“, International Tax and Public Finance, 15 (4>, 2008, pp. 360-394; CESifo Working Paper No. 2087, August 2007.
"Please Bring me the New York Times – On the European Roots of Richard Abel Musgrave“, International Tax and Public Finance, 16 (1), 2009, pp. 124–135; CESifo Working Paper No. 2050, July 2007.
"The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect. How to Solve the German Puzzle“, The World Economy, Vol. 29. No. 9, pp. 1157-1175, 2006; CESifo Working Paper No. 1708, April 2006.
"The Pay-as-you-go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device“, Journal of Public Economics 88, 2004, pp. 1335-1357.
"Pension Reform and Demographic Crisis. Why a Funded System is Needed and Why It is Not Needed", International Tax and Public Finance 7, 2000, pp. 389-410.
"The Selection Principle and Market Failure in Systems Competition", Journal of Public Economics 66, 1997, pp. 247-274.
"A Theory of the Welfare State", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 97, 1995, pp. 495-526.
"The Non-neutrality of Inflation for International Capital Movements", European Economic Review 34, 1991, pp. 1-22.
"Gradual Reforms of Capital Income Taxation" (together with P. Howitt), American Economic Review 79, 1989, pp. 106-124.
"Kinked Utility and the Demand for Human Wealth and Liability Insurance", European Economic Review 17, 1982, pp. 149-162.
"Besteuerung, Wachstum und Ressourcenabbau. Ein allgemeiner Gleichgewichtsansatz (Taxation, growth and resource extraction: a general equilibrium approach)", in: H. Siebert, ed., Erschöpfbare Ressourcen, Papers & Proceedings of German Economic Association, Duncker und Humblot: Berlin 1980, pp. 499-528.
"A Rehabilitation of the Principle of Insufficient Reason", Quarterly Journal of Economics 95, 1980, pp. 493-506.
9 main monographs (without edited books and translations), 13 smaller monographs, 135 scientific articles, thereof 82 in refereed international journals. In addition about 300 policy contributions.
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