Kai A. Konrad#
© Kai A. Konrad
| Membership Number: | 3624 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tax.mpg.de/en/public_economics/public_economics_people/prof_dr_kai_a_konrad |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2011 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Department of Public Economics
- 2009/08 - 2010/10 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
- 2001/01 - 2009/07 Director (Unit Market Processes and Governance) at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and Full Professor of Economics, Institute of Public Finance, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1994/08 - 2000/07 Professor (II) of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Norway
- 1994/07 - 2000/12 Full Professor of Economics, Institute of Public Finance, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1994/04 - 1994/06 Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1993/10 - 1994/03 Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Bonn
- 1990/12 - 1991/12 Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
- 1990/09 - 1994/06 Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
- (on leave 1990/12 - 1991/12 and 1993/10 – 1994/06)
- 1986/03 - 1990/10 Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Theory of taxation
- Economic policy
- International public finance
- Government debt
- Political economy
- Theory of conflict
- Public finance
Honours and Awards
- Awards/Fellowships
- 2023 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel
- 2016 Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship of the CESifo Group (Ifo Institute and Centre for Economic Studies) and the IIPF
- 2000 Gossen-Prize of the German Economic Association
- 1994 University of Munich, University Prize for habilitation
- 1990 University of Munich, University Prize for doctoral dissertation
- Memberships
- since 2015 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- since 2014 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)
- since 2013 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- since 2012 Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- since 2011 Honorary Professor, School of Business and Economics, Freie Universität Berlin
- since 2009 Honorary Professor, Department of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
- since 1999 CESifo Research Network Fellow
- since 1999 Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance
- since 1994 CEPR Research Fellow
