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Prof. Dr. Alfred Maußner

Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Business and Economics
Phone: +49 821 598 - 4187
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Education

1981

Diplom-Volkswirt: University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
1984

Dr. rer. pol. (Ph D in Economics): University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
1990 Habilitation: University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Positions

01/1992-09/1996

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Colone
10/1996-09/2000

Professor of Economics and Head of Chair of Economic Policy, University of Bamberg
10/2000-03/2024 Professor of Economics and Head of Chair of Empirical Macroeconomics, University of Augsburg

Publications in English

Textbook

  • Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling, Computational Methods and Applications (with Burkhard Heer), Third Edition, Springer Nature Switzerland 2024 (Second Edition, Springer-Verlag Germany 2009, First Edition, Springer-Verlag Berlin 2005)
    Springer
 

Refereed Journals

  • Perturbation Solution an Welfare Costs of Business Cycles in DSGE Models (with Christopher Heiberger), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 113, 2020

  • Projection Methods and the Curse of Dimensionality (with Burkhard Heer), Journal of Mathematical Finance, 8, 2018, 317-334
    (read article)
    Solver for non-linear equations

  • Cyclical Asset Returns in the Consumption and Investment Goods Sector (with Burkhard Heer and Bernd Süßmuth), Review of Economic Dynamics, 28, 2018, 1094-2025
    (read article)

  • Q-Targeting in New Keynesian Models (with Burkhard Heer and Halvor Ruf), Journal of Business Cycle Research, 13(2), 2017, 189-224
    (read article)

  • On the Numerical Accuracy of First-Order Approximate Solutions to DSGE Models (with Christopher Heiberger and Torben Klarl), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 21, 2017, 1811-1826
    (read article)
    Appendix
    Fortran, Dynare, Maple

  • A Note on the Characterization of the Neoclassical Production Function (with Andreas Irmen), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 21(7), 2017, 1827-1835
    (read article)

  • The Cash-in-Advance Constraint in Monetary Growth Models with Labor Market Search (with Burkhard Heer), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 19, 2015, 144-166
    (read article)

  • On the Uniqueness of Solutions to Rational Expectations Models (with Christoper Heiberger and Torben Klarl), Economics Letters, 128, 2015, 14-16
    (read article)

  • A Note on an Extension of a Class of Solutions to Dynamic Programming Problems Arising in Economic Growth (with Jürgen Antony), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 16, 2012, 472-476
    (read article)

  • Asset Returns, the Business Cycle, and the Labor Market (with Burkhard Heer), German Economic Review, 14(3), 2013, 372-397
    (read article)

  • Firm Heterogeneity, Credit Constraints, and Endogenous Growth (with Jürgen Antony and Torben Klarl), Journal of Economics, 105, 2012, 199-224

  • Log-Normal Approximation of the Equity Premium in the Production Model (with Burkhard Heer), Applied Economics Letters, 19, 2012, 407-412 Computer programme
    (read article)
    Computer programme

  • The Burden of Unanticipated Inflation: Analysis of an Overlapping Generations Model with Progressive Income Taxation and Staggered Prices (with Burkhard Heer), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 16, 2012, 278-308
    (read article)

    Computer programme
  • The Money-Age Distribution: Empirical Facts and the Limits of Three Monetary Models (with Burkhard Heer and Paul D. McNelis), Journal of Macroeconomics, 33, 2011, 390-405
    (read article)

  • Value Function Iteration as a Solution Method for the Ramsey Model (with Burkhard Heer), Journal of Economics and Statistics, 231, 2011, 494-515
    (read article)

    Computer programme

  • Inflation and Output Dynamics in a Model with Labor Market Search and Capital Accumulation (with Burkhard Heer), Review of Economic Dynamics, 13, 2010, 654-686
    (read article)

    Computer programme
  • Computation of Business Cycle Models: A Comparison of Numerical Methods (with Burkhard Heer), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12, 2008, 641-663
    (read article)
  • Determinants of Business Cycles in Small Scale Macroeconomic Models: The German Case (with Julius Spatz), Empirical Economics, 31, 2006, 925-950
    (read article)
  • Endogenous Growth with Nominal Frictions, Journal of Economics, 83, 2004, 1-46
    (read article)
  • Adjustment Costs and Nominal Rigidities in a Small Open Economy, Journal of Economics and Statistics, 222, 2002, 463-489
    (read article)
  • Wage Gaps in Textbook Models: Do they Account for the German Unemployment Experience?, Review of Economics, 50, 1999, 156-177
    (read article)
  • Partisan Profiles in Presidential Policies: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence Reconsidered (with Markus Küppers), Journal of Macroeconomics, 20, 1998, 387-395
  • Learning to Believe in Nonrational Expectations That Support Pareto-superior Outcomes, Journal of Economics, 65, 1997, 235-256
  • Partiasan Profiles in Government Policies, A Comparative Study for Germany and the United States (with Markus Küpper), Review of Economics, 47, 1996, 298-309
  • Market versus Political Decision Making, Implications from Discounted Utility Maximization, Jahrbuch für Sozialwissenschaft, 40, 1989, 145-159
    (read article)
  • Public Consumption, Optimal Capital Accumlation, and the Social Rate of Time Preference, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 143, 1987, 324-333
    (read article)
 

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