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| 1972 | Dr. phil., University of Basel, Switzerland | | 1974 - 1975 | Visiting Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, Cambridge, MA, USA | | 1975 - 1976 | Visiting Research Fellow, University of California, Department of Economics, Berkeley, CA, USA | | 1977 - 1981 | Research Fellow, DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 21 “Ökonomische Prognose-, Entscheidungs- und Gleichgewichtsmodelle”, University of Bonn | | 1980 | Habilitation, University of Bonn | | 1981 - 1984 | Professor of Economics, University of Bielefeld | | 1994 - 1997 | Head of the Economics Department, University of Bonn | | 2004 - 2008 | Senator, University of Bonn | | Since 1984 | Professor of Economics, University of Bonn |
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After having moved from mathematics to economics, my first research topic concerned spatial aspects of general equilibrium theory. I consider [1] on the comparative statics of a residential economy and [2] on a production economy as my most important contributions from that time. Attracted by theories of fiscal decentralization, I felt the need to incorporate political decision taking into models of spatial economies. [3] is the most general version of a series of papers that departed from the idea that local landowners might be the thriving force behind decisions to spend on local public goods. I also have spent much time on exploring Buchanan’s version of a social contract as an approach to model political decision taking. Initially, I somehow got stuck with what economists call contract theory. The most important contribution from that period has turned out to be [4] even though this paper was accepted for publication with a substantial delay only. From an abstract perspective, contracts can be seen as mechanisms that are designed by the involved parties. The aim was to explain real institutions as mechanisms which are optimal, given the appropriate exogenous distribution of information among the involved parties. Unfortunately, the theory did not really deliver on its promises. As a consequence, I changed the research strategy by exploring instead the incentives that emerge from real institutions as provided by contract law and tort law. An early contribution to the economic analysis of law was [5], a paper that is still widely quoted and referred to.
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Research Training Group “Interactive Economics Decisions”
Coordinator, 1991 - 1999
Bonn Graduate School of Economics
Coordinator, since 1998
DFG Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TR 15 “Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems”
Coordinator, 2008 - 2011
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[ 3] Urs Schweizer
Efficient exchange with a variable number of consumers
Econometrica , 51: (3): 575--584
1983
DOI: 10.2307/1912147[ 4] Urs Schweizer
Universal possibility and impossibility results
Games Econom. Behav. , 57: (1): 73--85
2006
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2005.08.015[ 5] U. Schweizer
Litigation and settlement under two-sided incomplete information
The Review of Economic Studies , 56: (2): 163
Publisher: Oxford University Press
1989[ 6] U. Schweizer
Law and economics of obligations
International Review of Law and Economics , 25: (2): 209--228
Publisher: Elsevier
2005[ 7] U. Schweizer
Cooperative investments induced by contract law
The RAND Journal of Economics , 37: (1): 134--145
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
2006[ 8] U. Schweizer
Tortious acts affecting markets
International Review of Law and Economics , 27: (1): 49--69
Publisher: Elsevier
2007[ 9] U. Schweizer
Legal damages for losses of chances
International Review of Law and Economics , 29: (2): 153--160
Publisher: Elsevier
2009[ 10] U. Schweizer
Breach Remedies, Performance Excuses, and Investment Incentives
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press
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• Regional Science and Urban Economics (Managing Editor, 1980 - 1986)
• Econometrica (Associate Editor, 1989 - 1998)
• German Economic Review (Co-Editor, 2000 - 2007)
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| Since 2001 | Regular member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts | | Since 2004 | Fellow of the European Economic Association |
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| 1988/89 | Professor of Economics, Bern, Switzerland |
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None during the initial funding period.
In economics, habilitation is no longer required to receive a tenured professorship. Andreas Roider, e.g., a former postdoctoral student at my chair, accepted an offer for a W3-position (full professor) from the University of Heidelberg.
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Julia Nafziger (2007): “Information and Incentives in Organizations”,
now Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
Susanne Goldlücke, born as Susanne Ohlendorf (2009): “Essays on Optimal Contracts and Renegotiation”,
now Assistant Professor, University of Mannheim
Daniel Müller (2010): “Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Management”,
now Professor, University of Würzburg
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- Diplom theses: 35, currently 3
- PhD theses: 5, currently 2
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