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Academic Degrees and Positions

1977:   Diploma in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), University of Siegen, DE.

1981:   Doctoral degree in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Siegen, DE.

1990:   Venia Legendi in Economics (Habilitation), University of Siegen, DE.

1987 - 1988:   Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US.

1988 - 1989:   Visiting Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA.

1991 - 1993:   Lecturer (Hochschuldozent), University of Siegen, DE.

1993 - 1996:   Associate Professor (C3-Professor, tenured), University of Paderborn, DE.

1996 - 2016:   Full Professor (ord. Professor), University of Fribourg, CH.

Since 2016:   Professor Emeritus (Prof. em.), University of Fribourg, CH.

Public Service at Fribourg University

• Vice Dean, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, 1996 - 1998.
• Dean, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, 1998 - 2000.
• Chairman, Department of Quantitative Economics, 2001 - 2003, 2009 - 2011.

Teaching at Fribourg University

Intermediate and advanced microeconomics.

Current Research Interest

Theoretical and computational aspects of strategic cooperative games.

Selection of Publications

"The Integer Nucleolus of Directed Simple Games: A Characterization and an Algorithm," Games 8 (2017), 1 - 12.

"Consistent Allocation of Cabinet Seats: The Swiss Magic Formula," Public Choice 150 (2012), 547 - 559 (with Y. Karagök).

"Remarks on a Surplus-Sharing Rule from the Mishneh Torah," TOP 17 (2009), 433 - 439.

"Factor Supply Changes in Small Open Economies: Rybczynski Derivatives under Increasing Marginal Costs," Finnish Economic Papers 22 (2009), 1 - 20 (with A. Pfingsten). FEP Best Paper 2009 & 2010.

"A Computational Approach to the Coincidence of Egalitarian Solutions for Cost-Sharing Games," International Game Theory Review 8 (2006), 169 - 183.

"A Global Robustness Measure for Input-Output Projections from ESA and SNA Tables," Economic Systems Research 17 (2005), 77 - 93.

"Parsing Economic Technology Matrices by Triangular Decomposition," Computational Economics 25 (2005), 275 - 279.

"Saddle-Point Dynamics in Non-Autonomous Models of Multisector Growth with Variable Returns to Scale," Journal of Mathematical Economics 27 (1997), 267 - 282.

"Resource Booms in Competitive Equilibria with Decreasing Returns to Scale," Journal of Economics 61 (1995), 185 - 200 (with A. Pfingsten).

"Efficient Stationary Accumulation Structures of a Biconvex Production Technology," in: W. Eichhorn (ed.), Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality, Springer: Berlin, 1994, 1011 - 1018.

"Endowment Changes in Economic Equilibrium: The Dutch Disease Revisited," in: W.E. Diewert, K. Spremann, F. Stehling (eds.), Mathematical Modelling in Economics, Springer: Berlin, 1993, 278 - 287 (with A. Pfingsten).

"On a Family of Utility Functions as a Basis of  Separable Demand," Journal of Economics 45 (1985), 171 - 177.

"Efficient Growth of an Agglomerating Economy," Regional Science and Urban Economics 15 (1985), 555 - 572.

"A Neoclassical Turnpike Theorem on Maximum Consumption Growth of Heterogeneous Capital Stocks in the Case of Increasing Returns to Scale," in: R. Henn, D. Pallaschke (eds.), Contributions to Production Theory, Natural Resources, Economic Indices and Related Topics, Methods of Operations Research 48 (1984), 227 - 258.

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