Professors
The School of Business and Economics at Humdolt-Universität in Berlin boasts some very famous and internationally acclaimed professors. Besides being the home base for such historic innovative thinkers like Wassily Leontief, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein or Max Planck, just to name a few, the current list of Professors strives to maintain this excellent reputation.
The faculty is divided into three major areas of specialization:
Prof. Dr. Tim Adam
Director of the Institute of Corporate Finance
https://enim.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/cofi/staff/cv_tadam
Professor Adam obtained Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1997.
Before joining Humboldt University of Berlin in autumn 2008, he held positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Sloan School of Management (MIT), the University of Michigan, and the National University of Singapore.
His research interest includes: Corporate finance, corporate risk management, private equity, financial restructurings, mutual funds and rating agencies. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Banking and Finance among others.
Prof. Dr. Franz Hubert
Heinz-Nixdorf Chair for Management Science
Franz Hubert received his Doctoral Degree from the Free University in Berlin. His research was published in Journal of industrial Economics, JITE, Regional Studies & Urban Economics and others.
His research interests cover industrial organization, real estate, corporate finance and investment. Recently he worked on reforms of power industries and strategic investment in network industries.
Prof. Dr. Ralf Maiterth
KPMG-Stiftungsprofessur für Betriebswirtschaftliche Steuerlehre
http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/professuren/bwl/bs/steuern/teamord
Ralf Maiterth has held the Chair of Business Taxation at the Leibniz University of Hannover from 2005 to 2009 and the Chair of Business taxation at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 2009. He studied Economics at Augsburg University and Würzburg University and received his Diploma in 1993. In 1999 he received his Doctoral Degree at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
His main fields of research are empirical tax analyzes based on economic-theoretic methods, particularly with regard to taxation effects in consequence of tax reforms.
Prof. Michael C. Burda Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Economic Theory II
https://enim.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/vwl/wtm2/mitarbeiter/burda
Michael Burda received B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. (1987) at Harvard University. Since 1993 he has served as director of the Institute for Economic Theory II at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and since 2007 visiting professor at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT). He has also taught at Berkeley and INSEAD. In 1998, Burda received the Gossen Prize of the German Verein für Socialpolitik. He is research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and a fellow of the European Economic Association. In 2009 Michael Burda and Charles Wyplosz published the 5th edition of their textbook “Macroeconomics: A European Text”, Oxford University Press, which has been translated into twelve other languages.
His research is primarily in macroeconomics, labor economics and issues of European integration.
Prof. Dr. Roland Strausz
Director of the Institute for Microeconometrics Theory
http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/professuren/vwl/mt/mitarbeiter/strausz
Prof. Dr. Roland Strausz joined the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin as Heisenberg-Professor in June 2007 and is now full professor. He received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 1998, where he finished his habilitation in 2005. He is a principal investigator in the SFB TR15 "Governance and the efficiency of economic systems", SFB649 "Economic Risk", and a French-German Cooperation Project "Market Power in Vertically Related Markets". Prof. Strausz is member of C.A.S.E., the council "Economic Theory" and "Industrial economics" of the Verein für Socialpolitik and a research Fellow in the CESIfo Network. He is further a founding member of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS).
His work has been published in Econometrics, Review of Economic Studies, and other international journals.His research area covers:Contract Theory, Mechanism Design, and Industrial Organization.
Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf
Director of the Institute of Economic History
http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/professuren/vwl/wg/team-1
Nikolaus Wolf is since 2010 Professor of Economic History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Among others, he previously held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Warwick. Professor Wolf won the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award in Global Economy and the Gino Luzzatto Prize for the best dissertation on Economic History.
His research is focused on international economics and economic geography in the long-run.
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Professor of Applied Microeconomics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/professuren/vwl/am/vitae/cv.pdf
Alexandra Spitz-Oener received her "diplom" in economics in 2000 and her Ph.D. in economics in 2004, both from the University of Mannheim. She joined Humboldt Unviersity of Berlin in 2006.
Her research interests are in the area of labor economics, and applied microeconomics. Her articles appeared in journals like Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics and others.
Prof. Lutz Weinke, Ph.D.
Professor of Economic Policy
http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/professuren/vwl/wipo/team/lutz-weinke
Lutz Weinke received his PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) in 2005. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as Assistant Professor at Duke University (USA). Lutz Weinke joined Humboldt-Universität in 2009.
His research in the field of monetary economics has appeared in the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the International Journal of Central Banking.
Prof. Dr. Bengt-Arne Wickström
Director of Institute of Public Economics
http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/professuren/vwl/fw/staff/institutsleiter/baw/
Bengt-Arne Wickström, born 1948, is director of the Institute of Public Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 1992. After the study of Mathematics and Physics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (B.A., 1969) and at State University of New York at Stony Brook (M.A., 1970) he received his doctoral degree in Economics at State University of New York at Stony Brook (M.A., 1973, Ph.D., 1975). He then worked at Northwestern University, The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, The University of Bergen and Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz before coming to Berlin.
His general research interests are in the areas of welfare theory with a special emphasis on the economic theory of justice as well as in public choice theory and social evolution. Lately, he has especially worked on the connection between economics and language, both from a positive (survival possibilities of minority languages) and normative (just and efficient distribution of language rights) point of view.
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Härdle
Director of Insitute of Satistics and Econometrics
https://enim.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/quantitativ/statistik/members/personalpages/wh
Born in 1953, Wolfgang Härdle has held the chair of statistics since 1992. He is director of a DFG financed special research programme (SFB-649, Economic Risk) on the quantification and simulation of economic processes.
His research covers discrete choice models, statistical modelling of financial markets and computer based statistics. His more recent work deals with models of implicit volatilities and the statistical analysis of financial risk.
Professor Dr. Nikolaus Hautsch
Chair of Econometrics, Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Coordinator of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science
Research Fellow Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt
http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~hautschn/
Professor Hautsch graduated at the University of Konstanz in 2003. Before coming to Humboldt University of Berlin in 2007, he was Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His articles appeared in journals like the Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and others.
His research interests are in the area of financial econometrics, covering econometric methods for financial high-frequency data, empirical market microstructure analysis, volatility modeling as well as asset pricing.
Prof. Dr. Brenda López Cabrera
Professor of "Weather, climate and energy analysis" at the Chair of Statistics
http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/professuren/quantitativ/statistik/members/personalpages/bl
Brenda López Cabrera obtained his bachelor degree in Actuarial Science in Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and his master and doctor degree in Humbodlt-University of Berlin. Currently she teaches "Statistical Tools in Finance and Insurance" and "Advanced Methods in Quantitative Finance".
Her research interests are portfolio optimization, empirical and computational finance and applications within the field of statistical analysis of insurance, finance and energy. She concentrates on economic risk of natural hazards and focuses on Catastrophe Bonds, Weather and Energy Markets.
Professor Dr. Ostap Okhrin
Assistant Professor for Statistics
Ostap Okhrin, born 1984 in Lviv, Ukraine, is an Assistant Professor at the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics at the Department of Economics and Business Administration at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since April 2008. He finished his PhD at the European University Viadrina in 2007.
His research interests are multivariate distributions, estimation and multivariate model selection, copula based distributions. His most recent works are dealing with the modelling of credit risk and the statistical analysis of financial risk.
