Current Employment: Full Professor of Economics, German University in Cairo (since 01/2018)
Current Employment: Full Professor of Economics, German University in Cairo (since 01/2018)
Contact: dr.c.schubert@gmail.com
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See REPEC ranking of economics departments & economists ("Authors", "Authors 10") in Egypt: https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.egypt.html
Previously:
10/2016-12/2017 Visiting Lecturer, zeppelin University Friedrichshafen and Münster University (Germany)
04/2016-09/2016 Fixed-term Professor of Applied Microeconomics, Düsseldorf University (Germany)
09/2014-03/2016 Guest Professor of Ethics and Economics, Kassel University (Germany)
10/2012-08/2014 Fixed-Term Professor of Microeconomics, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus (Germany)
07/2012-09/2012 Visiting Scholar, School of Economics, Utrecht University (Netherlands)
03/2009-08/2010 Fixed-Term Professor of Economic Policy, Freiburg University (Germany)
08/2002-06/2012 PostDoc, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena (Germany)
07/1998-07/2002 PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (Germany)
Degrees:
Habilitation (Venia legendi in Economics), Jena University, March 2013
PhD in Economics, Jena University, December 2003
MSc in Economics, Osnabrück University, May 1998
Teaching Experience:
Advanced Microeconomics (PhD course; Master), Game Theory (PhD course), New Institutional Economics (PhD course), Microtheory (Master), International Trade (Master), Behavioral Economics (Master), Public Economics (Master), Industrial Organization (Master), Law & Economics (Master), Philosophy of Economics (Master), Introduction to Decision Theory (Master), Public Choice (Master), Evolutionary Economics (Master), Macroeconomics (Bachelor), Microeconomics (Bachelor), European Competition Policy (Bachelor), Economics & Ethics (Bachelor), Behavioral Public Policy (Bachelor), Introduction to Economics (Bachelor).
Research Interests:
(Behavioral) Political Economy
(Behavioral) Normative Economics
Ethics & Economics
Libertarian Paternalism
Economic Methodology
Publications (Books and refereed journal articles only): [Hirsch-Index = 11 (Scopus), 17 (google scholar)]
Books:
Evolution and Design of Institutions, Routledge 2006 (co-ed. with Georg von Wangenheim)
Die rechtliche Steuerung urbanen Wandels: Eine konstitutionenökonomische Untersuchung, Mohr Siebeck 2006 (PhD Diss.)[The legal governance of urban change: A constitutional economics analysis]
Refereed Journal articles:
"On 'Autonomy' and 'Agency' in a Hayekian world", forthcoming in: History of Political Economy (2026) (with Dina Yousri).
"Opportunity meets self-constitution", International Review of Economics 68 (2021),51-65.
"A note on the behavioral political economy of innovation policy", Journal of Evolutionary Economics 29/5 (2019): 1399-1414 (with Jan Schnellenbach).
"Toward a behavioral foundation of normative economics", Review of Behavioral Economics 5/2-3 (2018): 221-241 (with Malte F. Dold)
"Exploring the (behavioral) political economy of nudging", Journal of Institutional Economics 13/3 (2017): 499-522.
"Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical?", Ecological Economics 132 (2017): 329-342.
"Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey", European Journal of Political Economy 40 (2015): 395-417 (with Jan Schnellenbach)
"Opportunity and Preference Learning", Economics and Philosophy 31/2 (2015): 275-295.
"What do we mean when we say that innovation and entrepreneurship (policy) increase 'welfare'?", Journal of Economic Issues 49/1 (2015): 1-22.
"Fighting maritime piracy: Three lessons from Pompeius Magnus", Defence and Peace Economics 25/5 (2014): 481-497 (with Leonard K. Lades).
"Generalized Darwinism and the quest for an evolutionary theory of policy-making", Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24/3 (2014): 479-513.
"Reconciling normative and behavioral economics: An application of the 'naturalistic' approach to the adaptation problem", Journal of Economics and Statistics 234/2+3 (2014): 350-365 (with Martin Binder).
"Role models that make you unhappy: Light paternalism, social learning, and welfare", Journal of Institutional Economics 9/2 (2013): 131-159 (with Christian C. Cordes).
"How to evaluate creative destruction: Reconstructing Schumpeter's approach", Cambridge Journal of Economics 37/2 (2013): 227-250. Reprinted in: Metcalfe, J.S., Ramlogan, R. (Eds), Creative Destruction (Vol. II, article 34, pp. 809-832). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017.
"Is novelty always a good thing? Towards an evolutionary welfare economics", Journal of Evolutionary Economics 22/3 (2013): 585-612. Reprinted in: Buenstorf, G., Cantner, U., Hanusch, H., Hutter, M., Lorenz, H.-W., Rahmeyer, F. (Eds), The two sides of innovation. Cham u.a.: Springer, 2013, pp. 209-242).
"Pursuing Happiness", Kyklos 65/2 (2012): 245-261.
"Constitutional interests in the face of innovations: How much do we need to know about risk preferences?", Constitutional Political Economy 19 (2008): 203-225 (with Ulrich Witt)
"Towards a naturalistic foundation of the social contract", Constitutional Political Economy 18 (2007): 35-62 (with Christian C. Cordes).
Comments:
"Verhaltensökonmik als Gegenprogramm zur Standardökonomik?" – Comment on a chapter by Dennis Dittrich (“Behavioral economics as a challenge to the mainstream?“), List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik 44 [April 2019]: 861-865.
"Evolutionary economics and the case for a constitutional libertarian paternalism" – a comment on Martin Binder, ‘Should evolutionary economists embrace libertarian paternalism?’”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24/5 [November 2014]: 1107-1113.
"The pitfalls of Darwinian 'progress'": a comment on ‘Evolvability and progress in evolutionary economics’ by Tim Cochrane and James Maclaurin”, Journal of Bioeconomics 15/3 [October 2013]: 325-328.
Refereeing (ad hoc) for, among others:
Behavioural Public Policy; Cambridge Journal of Economics; Constitutional Political Economy; Defence & Peace Economics; Ecological Economics; The Economic Journal; Economics and Philosophy; Economics of Governance; Energy Economics; Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics; European Economic Review; European Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Journal of Economic Methodology; Journal of Environmental Economics & Management; Journal of Evolutionary Economics; Journal of Institutional Economics; Journal of the History of Economic Thought; Kyklos; List-Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik; Nature Energy; Resource and Energy Economics; Review of Behavioral Economics; Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
Czech Science Foundation; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW); US-Israel Binational Science Foundation; Routledge Publishers; Springer (“Applied Ethics Program”).