Günther Rehme
Contact Information
Technische Universität Darmstadt
FB 1 / VWL 1
Hochschulstrasse 1
D-64289 Darmstadt
Germany
Tel.: +49-6151-16-57258
+49-6151-16-57265 (secretariat)
Fax: +49-6151-16-57257
Email: rehme@vwl.tu-darmstadt.de
Current Position
Professor of Economics
Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Distribution, Globalization, Public Economics
Education and Academic Employment
2013-to date Professor of Economics at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
2012 Visiting Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Theory II (Macroeconomics)
at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2007-2009 Visiting Professor of Economics and director in charge of the Institute of Economic Policy (Macroeconomics)
at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2007-2013 Assistant Professor of Economics with tenure at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
2005 Temporary Full Professorship of Economics, esp. Economic Development and International Economics
at J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. (Summer Term 2005)
2004 Temporary Full Professorship of Economics, esp. International Economic Relations (IWB) at
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken. (Summer Term 2004)
2003 Temporary Full Professorship of Economics, esp. International Economic Relations (IWB) at
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken. (Summer Term 2003)
2003 Habilitation in Economics at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
1999 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Economics at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
1998 Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence.
1995 - 1998 Research Associate at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
1995 Visiting Student at Nuffield College, Oxford.
1992- 1995 Research Student at the European University Institute (EUI).
1991 - 1992 Research Assistant at the Suntory Toyota International Centre for Economics
and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Teaching Assistant at the London School of Economics (LSE).
1990 - 1991 M.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Tutor of macroeconomics at City University, London.
1989 - 1990 Diploma in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
1986 - 1989 Studies in Economics and Philosophy at J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt.
1972 - 1981 Secondary education at Gymnasium Philippinum, Marburg an der Lahn.
Professional Employment
1985 - 1986 Management Planner at Nestlé Corp., Germany.
Military Service
1982 - 1985 Apprenticeship as industrial merchant (Ausbildung zum Industriekaufmann)
Awards and Honours
Fellow of the German American Academic Council (GAAC) Summer Institute on "Institutions and Economic Performance in Advanced Economies since 1945" held at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) in 1998 and at NBER and CASBS, Stanford, California, in 1999.
Young Scholars Award, International Institute of Public Finance, 1998.
Member of Nuffield College and Oxford University since 1995.
Distinction before the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce, 1985.
First Prize in National Student Contest chaired by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany on 'German History from 1933 to 1945', 1981. (Prize: Official visit to the State of Israel.)
Exchange Student, German-American Partnership Program (GAPP), Gymnasium Philippinum, Marburg, and Conard High School, West Hartford, Connecticut, 1979.
Distinctions
Best Conference Paper Award, 2nd Prize, at Second International Conference of the School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS), "Development: Discourses and Critique", CBER , IBA Karachi, Pakistan, 2022.
Scholarships and Research Grants
Castor Endowment, CESifo and the European Union Center at the University of Washington, research project "Growth and Inequality: Issues and Policy Implications", Munich 2001 and Schloss Elmau 2002.
German American Academic Council (GAAC), Summer Institute 1998 and 1999.
ERASMUS grant for Nuffield College, Oxford, 1995.
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), doctoral studies at the European University Institute, 1992-1995.
Bundesausbildungsförderung im Ausland BAföG, graduate studies at the London School of Economics, 1990-1991.
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), graduate studies at the London School of Ecnomics, 1989-1990.
Kurt A. Körber Foundation, research project "German History from 1933 to 1945", 1982.
Travel Grants
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, presentation award, annual meeting in Madrid, 2002.
Royal Economic Society, presentation award, annual meeting in Warwick, 2002.
United Nations University / World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), WIDER Development Conference on "Growth and Poverty", Helsinki, 2001.
Verein für Socialpolitik, conference presentation awards in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.
Services
University Services
Editor of the Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics (DDPIE) since summer 2016.
Director of the department's internship office, TU Darmstadt, winter 2009/10 - winter 2017/18.
Co-organizer of the "Schumpeter Seminar in Macroeconomics" and "Brown Bag Seminar in Macroeconomics" at HU Berlin, summer 2008-2009.
Director of the department's internship office, TU Darmstadt, summer 2007.
Acting Director of the department's internship office, TU Darmstadt, winter 2006/07.
Member of recruitment committee of a chair in economics, TU Darmstadt, winter 2002/03.
Co-organizer of the "Volkswirtschaftsliches Kolloquium", TU Darmstadt, winter 2001 - winter 2009.
Main organizer of the department's official graduation ceremony (250, 150 participants), TU Darmstadt, winter 1998/99 and summer 1999.
Co-organizer of the department's official graduation ceremony (200 participants), TU Darmstadt, summer 1998.
Referee Services for academic journals and publishers:
Academia Letters
American Economic Review
Annals of Regional Science
Central European Economic Journal
Climate Policy
Economica
Economic Change and Restructuring
Economic Journal
Economics-EJournal
Economic Modelling
European Economic Review
FinanzArchiv
German Economic Review
International Tax and Public Finance
Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
Journal of Economics
Journal of Economic Growth
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
Journal of Macroeconomics
Journal of Public Economics
Macroeconomic Dynamics
Metroeconomica
MIT Press
Review of Income and Wealth
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Social Science Quarterly
Referee Services for grant awarding bodies:
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Dissertation project evaluations: 2)
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Student evaluations: 5)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Student evaluations: 4)
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Student evaluations: 1)
Gottlieb Daimler- und Carl Benz-Stiftung (Dissertation project evaluations: 1)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (Research project evaluation)
Research
Habilitationsschrift
Title: Education, Economic Growth and Income Distribution
Dissertation
Title: Essays on Distributive Policies and Economic Growth
Defence Committee: Sir Anthony B. Atkinson (Oxford, Co-Supervisor)
Sir James A. Mirrlees (Cambridge, Chairman)
Robert J. Waldmann (EUI, Supervisor)
Robert K. von Weizsäcker (Mannheim)
Articles
"Capital Depreciation Allowances, Redistributive Taxation and Economic Growth", forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2022.
“'Love of Wealth' and Economic Growth”, Review of Development Economics, Vol. 21(4), 2017, 1305-1326. [PDF].
“Endogenous (Re-)Distributive Policies and Economic Growth: A Comparative Static Analysis”, Economic Modelling, Vol. 40, 2014, 355-366. [PDF].
“Amortissement fiscal et redistribution dans un modèle de croissance néoclassique”, Revue de l‘OFCE, Vol. 116, 2011, 367-392. [PDF]
"Endogenous Policy and Cross-Country Growth Empirics", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 58(2), 2011, 262-296. [PDF]
"Why Run a Million Regressions? Endogenous Policy and Cross-Country Growth Empirics", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 166(4), 2010, 735-759. [PDF]
"Economic Growth and (Re-)Distributive Policies in a Non-Cooperative World", Journal of Economics, Vol. 91, No. 1, 2007, 1-40. [PDF]
"Education, Economic Growth and Measured Income Inequality", Economica, Vol. 74, 2007, 493-514. [PDF]
"Redistribution and Economic Growth in Integrated Economies", Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 28, 2006, 392-408. [PDF]
"Education Policies, Economic Growth and Wage Inequality", FinanzArchiv, Vol. 59, 2003, 479-503. [PDF]
"Distributive Policies and Economic Growth: An Optimal Taxation Approach", Metroeconomica, Vol. 53(3), 2002, 315-338. [PDF]
Working papers
On ‚Rusting’ Money. Silvio Gesell's Schwundgeld Reconsidered, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 233, TU Darmstadt, 2018. [PDF]
‚Love of Wealth’ and Economic Growth, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 209, TU Darmstadt, 2011. [PDF]
Wissen und Neue Wachstumstheorie: Die Rolle von fachspezifischem Humankapital, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 189, TU Darmstadt, 2008. [PDF]
Optimal Capital Income Taxation, Investment Subsidies and Redistribution in a Neoclassical Growth Model, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 188, TU Darmstadt, 2007. [PDF]
Endogenous (Re-)Distributive Policies and Economic Growth: A Comparative Static Analysis, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 185, TU Darmstadt, 2007. [PDF]
Endogenous Policy and Cross-Country Growth Empirics, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 182, TU Darmstadt, 2007. [PDF]
Advertising, Consumption and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 178, TU Darmstadt, 2007. (with Sara-Frederike Weisser) [PDF]
Economic Growth and (Re-)Distributive Policies in a Non-Cooperative World, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 175, TU Darmstadt, 2006. [PDF]
Education and Economic Growth and Measured Income Inequality,
- Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 163, TU Darmstadt, 2006. [PDF]
- LIS Working Paper No. 428, Luxembourg Income Study, 2006. [PDF]
Redistribution and Economic Growth in Integrated Economies, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 141, TU Darmstadt, 2004. [PDF]
Why Run a Million Regressions? Endogenous Policy and Cross-Country Growth Empirics, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 140, TU Darmstadt, 2004. [PDF]
Education, Research and Economic Growth, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 138, TU Darmstadt, 2004. (with Volker Caspari and Jens Rubart) [PDF]
Education, Economic Growth and Personal Income Inequality Across (Rich) Countries, LIS Working Paper No. 300, Luxembourg Income Study, 2002. [PDF]
(Re-)Distribution of Personal Incomes, Education and Economic Performance Across Countries,
- WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/34, United Nations University / World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), Helsinki, 2002. [PDF]
- LIS Working Paper No. 299, Luxembourg Income Study, 2002. [PDF]
- CESifo Working Paper No. 711, CESifo, Munich, 2002. [PDF]
Economic Growth and (Re-)Distributive Policies: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 00/13, 2000. [PDF]
Why are the Data at Odds with Theory? Growth and (Re-)Distributive Policies in Integrated Economies, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 99/43, 1999. [PDF]
Education, Economic Growth and Personal Income Inequality Across Countries, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 99/42, 1999. [PDF]
Distributive Policies and Economic Growth: An Optimal Taxation Approach, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 99/36, 1999. [PDF]
Public Policies and Education, Economic Growth and Income Distribution, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 99/14, 1999. [PDF]
Economic Growth, (Re-)Distributive Policies, Capital Mobility and Tax Competition in Open Economies, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 97/24, 1997. [PDF]
Redistribution, Income cum Investment Subsidy Tax Competition and Capital Flight in Growing Economies, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 95/16, 1995. [PDF]
Redistribution, Wealth Tax Competition and Capital Flight in Growing Economies, EUI Working Paper ECO No. 95/9, 1995. [PDF]
Appendices and Resources used for the Articles and Working Papers are available under Resources and Appendices.
Entries in Books
With refereeing process
Education, Research and Economic Growth, in: S. Mundschenk, M. H. Stierle, U. Stierle-von-Schütz und
I. Traistaru-Siedschlag, eds., Competitiveness and Growth in Europe: Lessons and Policy Implications for the Lisbon Strategy, London: Edward Elgar, 2006. (With Volker Caspari und Jens Rubart)
(Re-)Distribution of Personal Incomes, Education and Economic Performance Across Countries, in: Theo Eicher and Stephen Turnovsky, eds., Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2003.
Without refereeing process
Wissen und Neue Wachstumstheorie: Die Rolle von fachspezifischem Humankapital, in B. Schefold und T. Lenz, eds.,
Europäische Wissensgesellschaft. Leitbild europäischer Forschungs- und Innovationspolitik?, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2008.
Wachstum und Verteilung. Ein Überblick über einige neuere Erklärungsansätze, in H.-C. Mager, H. Schäfer und K. Schrüfer, eds.,
Private Versicherung und Soziale Sicherung. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Roland Eisen, Metropolis Verlag, Marburg, 2001. (With Volker Caspari)
Invited Book Reviews
(2006) John E. Roemer: “Democracy, Education and Equality” – Graz-Schumpeter Lectures, Series: Econometric Society Monographs (No. 40), Cambridge University Press, reviewed in Journal of Economics, Vol 93(1), 95-100, 2008. [PDF]
Invited Comments
(2007) Masano Aoki and Hiroshi Yoshikawa: “Non-Self-Averaging in Macroecoonomic Models: A Criticism of Modern Micro-founded Macroeconomics", reviewed in Economics-EJournal. [PDF]
Mimeos and Projects
On 'Rusting' Money. Sivio Gesell's Schwundgeld Reconsidered. Part 1: The Short Run, TU Darmstadt, 2021, mimeo, PDF)
On 'Rusting' Money. Sivio Gesell's Schwundgeld Reconsidered. Part 2: The Long Run, TU Darmstadt, 2021, mimeo, PDF)
Capital Depreciation Allowances and Redistribution in a Neoclassical Growth Model, Mimeo, TU Darmstadt, 2009. (version presented at the 10th World Congress of the Econometric Society (ES), Shanghai, 2010, available HERE)
The Welfare Effects of Technological Progress in a Simple Two-Class Endogenous Growth Model: The Case of Constant Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution Utility, Mimeo, TU Darmstadt, 2006.
Frankfurt Lectures "Growth and Distribution Research in International Perspective: Theory and Empirics", Lecture Notes, J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, 2005. (In German.)
Why Run a Million Regressions? On Some Difficulties of Doing OLS in Cross-Country Analyses, Mimeo, TU Darmstadt and EUI, 1997.
Grab the Capital and Grow: Growth, Distribution, Tax Competition and Capital Flight in a Simple Model of Endogenous Growth, Mimeo, EUI, 1994.
Conference Contributions
2nd International Conference of the School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS), "Development: Discourses and Critique", CBER , IBA Karachi, Pakistan, 2022.
20th Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), Seoul, South Korea, 2021. (Virtual)
10th International Research Conference “Macroeconomic Policy Reforms towards a Vibrant Future”,
Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2017.
43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, New York City, 2017.
9th International Research Conference “Sustainable Development and Macroeconomic Policies in a
Challenging Global and Domestic Environment”, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2016.
Arnoldshain Seminar XIV “Institutions, Trade, and Economic Policy”, Córdoba and La Cumbre, Argentina, 2016.
Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance (RCEF2016) "Innovation, Growth, Governance and Development", Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2016.
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES), Kyoto, 2016.
2016 Taipei International Conference on Growth, Trade and Dynamics (GTD), Taipei, 2016.
National conference on "Fiscal Issues, Reforms and Development Policies" at the Center for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy (CTRPFP), at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata, 2015.
German Economic Association (VfS), Hamburg, 2014
Austrian Economic Association (NOeG), Vienna, 2014
Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Gothenburg, 2013
Royal Economic Society (RES), Cambridge, 2012
10th World Congress of the Econometric Society (ES), Shanghai, 2010
Les Finances Publiques Après La Crise, Journées d'étude de l'OFCE; OFCE Centre de recherche en économie de Sciences Po, Paris, 2010
Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society (FESAMES), Tokyo 2009
Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES), Rio de Janeiro, 2008
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Rio de Janeiro, 2008
International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Maastricht, 2008
German Economic Association (VfS), Munich, 2007
Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Budapest, 2007
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Mexico City, 2006
CES Conference: A bright future at the age of 50 - The CES production function in the theory and empirics of economic growth, Training Center of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Eltville, 2006
German Economic Association (VfS), Bayreuth, 2006
Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Vienna, 2006
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Paris, 2005
European Economic Association (EEA), Madrid, 2004
Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Madrid, 2004
German Economic Association (VfS), Dresden, 2004
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASMES), Providence, Rhode Island, 2004
International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Prague, 2003
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Madrid, 2002
European Economic Association (EEA), Venice, 2002
Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade (DEGIT), VII, Cologne, 2002
Royal Economic Society (RES), Warwick, 2002
WIDER Development Conference on "Growth and Poverty", United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), Helsinki, 2001
CESifo Conferences on "Growth and Inequality: Issues and Policy Implications", CESifo, Munich, 2001 and Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, 2002
International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Sevilla, 2000
8th World Congress of the Econometric Society (ES), Seattle, 2000
Theories and Methods in Macroeconomics (T2M), Paris, 2000
European Economic Association (EEA), Santiago de Compostela, 1999
European Economic Association (EEA), Berlin, 1998
International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Cordoba, Argentina, 1998
Society of Social Choice and Welfare (SSCW), Vancouver, 1998
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASM), Montreal, 1998
Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Toulouse, 1997
German Economic Association (VfS), Bern, 1997
Theories and Methods in Macroeconomics (T2M), Louvain-la-Neuve, 1997
European Economic Association (EEA), Istanbul, 1996
European Economic Association (EEA), Prague, 1995
Keynotes
Presentations
University of Dortmund, November 1999
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, May 2000
Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar, University of Cologne, December 2000
Humboldt University Berlin, November 2001
University of Mannheim, December 2001
University of Hannover, April 2002
Saarland University, June 2003
Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitut Österreich (WIFO), Vienna, March 2006
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim, May 2006
Hertie School of Governance, (HSoG), Berlin, June 2006
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brown Bag Seminar, November 2007
Leibniz Universität Hannover, November 2007
Paris School of Economics (PSE), ENS, Paris-Jourdan, December 2007
Universität Hamburg, February 2008
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 2008
Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) und Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2008
Technische Universität Dresden, November 2008
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle (Saale), July 2010
Universität Potsdam, October 2010
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brown Bag Seminar, May 2012
Contributions to Interdisciplinary Research
Forschungskolleg der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 435, „Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel“, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Teilprojekt D7 „Der Beitrag der Neuen Wachstumstheorie zur Erklärung der Koevolution von Wissenskultur und technischem Fortschritt“, 2007. Joint with political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, EU politicians and economists.
German American Academic Council (GAAC) Summer Institute on "Institutions and Economic Performance in Advanced Economies since 1945", Summer Institue 1998 and 1999. Joint with political scientists, sociologists and economists.
Other Works
'... mit Rumpf und Stumpf ausrotten.' Zur Geschichte der Juden in Marburg und Umgebung nach 1933;Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur 6, Presseamt der Stadt Marburg, Marburg, 1982. (With Konstantin Haase)
"Judenverfolgung in Marburg und Umgebung" in: D. Galinski, U. Herbert und U. Lachauer, eds., Nazis und Nachbarn: Schüler erforschen den Alltag im Nationalsozialismus, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbeck, 1982. (With Konstantin Haase)
(Both publications document the holocaust of the Jewish community in Marburg an der Lahn.)