Alexander Ludwig
Department of Economic Sciences
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Prof. Dr. Alexander Ludwig, Education: 2001 - 2005 Dissertation, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA), University of Mannheim May 2001 Diploma in Economics, University of Mannheim. Academic / Professional Positions: Since April 2014 Professor for Public Finance and Debt Management at Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Research Center SAFE Since July 2015 Program Director, SAFE, Research Area Macrofinance - Monetary Policy and Fiscal Stability 2009 - April 2014 Professor for Macroeconomics, University of Cologne 2005 - 2009 Head of Research Unit "Macroeconomics" and Assistant Professor, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA), University of Mannheim
Research Interest
Dynamic macroeconomics with heterogeneous agents. Public finance. Bestellen. Computational economics.
Publications
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Ludwig, A., & Zimper, A. (2013). A parsimonious model of subjective life expectancy. Theory and Decision, 75(4), 519-541.
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Ludwig, A., & Zimper, A. (2014). Biased Bayesian learning with an application to the risk-free rate puzzle. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 39, 79-97.
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Aging and Pension Reform: Extending the Retirement Age and Human Capital Formation (with Axel Börsch-Supan and Edgar Vogel), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (2017), Vol. 16, Issue 1, pp. 81-107. DOI information: 10.1017 / S1474747215000086
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Krueger, D., & Ludwig, A. (2016). On the optimal provision of social insurance: Progressive taxation versus education subsidies in general equilibrium. Journal of Monetary Economics, 77, 72-98.
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Ludwig, A., & Schön, M. (2013). Endogenous grids in higher dimensions: Delaunay interpolation and hybrid methods. Computational Economics, 1-30.
