Prof. Dr. Hans Gersbach

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Experience

• Professor, ETH Zurich (since 2006)
• Professor, University of Heidelberg (1995-2006)
• Assistant Professor, University of Basel (1992 and 1994-1995)
• Research Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute, Washington (1992-1993)
• Management Consultant, McKinsey & Co., Switzerland (1990-1992)
• Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Basel (1987-1990)
• Software Development, National Versicherung, Basel (1986-1987)

Education

• Habilitation, University of Basel, 1995
• Dr. rer. pol., University of Basel, 1990
• Economics (Lic. rer. pol.), University of Basel, 1986
• Actuarial Science (Dipl. vers. math.), University of Basel, 1985
• Physics/Mathematics (Dipl. math.), University of Basel, 1984

Recent Publications

Area P: Design of new Organizations/Institutions and their Foundations

• Minority Voting and Long-term Decisions, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming, 2009.
  (with Theresa Fahrenberger)
• Democratic Mechanisms, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming, 2009.
• Power to Youth: Designing Democracy for Long-term Well-being, Mathematical Social Sciences, 58(2), 2009, 158-172.
  (with Tobias Kleinschmidt)
• The Affectionate Society: Does Competition for Partners Promote Friendliness?, Economic Theory, 40, 2009, 389-403.
  (with Hans Haller)
• Competition of Politicians for Wages and Office, Social Choice and Welfare, 33(1), 2009, 51-71.
• Incentive Contracts and Elections for Politicians with Multi-Task Problems, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 68(2), 2008, 401-411.
  (with Verena Liessem)
• Reelection Thresholds in Politics, Social Choice and Welfare, 31(2), 2008, 233-255.
  (with Verena Liessem)
• When Inefficiency Begets Efficiency, Economic Theory, 25(1), 2005, 105-121.
  (with Hans Haller)
• Dividing Resources by Flexible Majority Rules, Social Choice and Welfare, 23, 2004, 295-308.
• Why One-Person-One-Vote?, Social Choice and Welfare, 23, 2004, 449-464.
• Competition of Politicians for Incentive Contracts and Elections, Public Choice, 121, 2004, 157-177.
• The Money-Burning Refinement: With Application to a Political Signalling Game, International Journal of Game Theory, 33, 2004, 67-87.
• Collective Decisions and Competitive Markets, Review of Economic Studies, 68, 2001, 347-368.
  (with Hans Haller)

Area I: Innovation, the Engines of Growth and Long-term Well-Being

• Land Reforms and Economic Development, Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming, 2009.
  (with Lars Siemers)
• Child Labor and the Education of a Society, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 13(2), 2009, 220-249.
  (with Clive Bell)
• The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic, Journal of Health Economics, 28(1), 2009, 54-72.
  (with Clive Bell)
• High Compensation Creates a Ratchet Effect, Economic Journal, 119, 2009, 1208-1224.
  (with Amihai Glazer)
• The Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS: A Model with an Application to South Africa, World Bank Economic Review, 20(1), 2006, 55-89.
  (with Clive Bell and Shantayanan Devarajan)
• Productivity Improvements in Public Organizations, Economic Journal, 115(505), 2005, 671-688.
  (with Marten Keil)
• Emission Taxes and Optimal Refunding Schemes, Journal of Public Economics, 88, 2004, 713-725.
  (with Till Requate)
• Endogenous Spillovers and Incentives to Innovate, Economic Theory, 21(1), 2003, 59-79.
  (with Armin Schmutzler)
• Is Capital a Collusion Device?, Economic Theory, 21(1), 2003, 133-154.
  (with Switgard Feuerstein)
• Endogenous Technological Spillovers: Causes and Consequences, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 12 (2), 2003, 179-205.
  (with Armin Schmutzler)

Area M: Macroeconomic Thinking and Economic Policy

• Voting Transparency in a Monetary Union, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 41(5), 2009, 831-853.
  (with Volker Hahn)
• Flexible Majority Rules for Central Banks, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming, 2009.
  (with Bernhard Pachl)
• Should the Individual Voting Records of Central Bankers Be Published?, Social Choice and Welfare, 30(4), 2008, 655-683.
  (with Volker Hahn)
• Imperfect Competition, General Equilibrium and Unemployment, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 32(5), 2008, 1381-1398.
  (with Achim Schniewind)
• On the Coexistence of Banks and Markets, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 109(2), 2007, 225-243.
  (with Harald Uhlig)
• Do Risk Premia Protect from Banking Crises?, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12, 2008, 100-111.
  (with Jan Wenzelburger)
• Information Content of Wages and Monetary Policy, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 39(1), 2007, 133-149.
  (with Volker Hahn)
• Debt Contracts and Collapse as Competition Phenomena, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 5(4), 2006, 556-574.
  (with Harald Uhlig)
• Signaling and Commitment: Monetary versus Inflation Targeting, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 10(5), 2006, 595-624.
  (with Volker Hahn)
• Structural Reforms and the Macroeconomy, in Robert M. Solow (ed.): Structural Reform and Macroeconomic Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Publications of General Interest

• Banking on the average - a new way to regulate banks, The London Summit 2009, http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/en/join-the-debate/the-economists-debate/hans-gersbach.
• Brief des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie an Bundesminister Michael Glos vom 23. Januar 2009, Schlaglichter der Wirtschaftspolitik - Monatsbericht März 2009, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi), Berlin, 2009, 19-30.
  (mit Martin Hellwig)
• Brief des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie an Bundesminister Michael Glos vom 10. Oktober 2008, Schlaglichter der Wirtschaftspolitik - Sonderausgabe Finanzkrise, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi), Berlin, 2008, 15-18.
  (mit Martin Hellwig)
• A New Way to Address Climate Change: A Global Refunding System, The Economists' Voice, 5(4), 2008, Article 2.
• Anreize für Weitsicht und Wiederwahlschwellen: Wege zur besseren Demokratie, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 8(4), 2007, 389-397.
• Ernsthaften Politikern sollten Verträge mit dem Volk gelegen kommen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 196, 2007.
• Economic Growth, Education and AIDS in Kenya, Development Outreach, 9(2), 2007, 16-19.