Martin Hellwig

{{short description|German economist}}

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{{Infobox economist

| name = Martin F. Hellwig

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| caption = Hellwig in 2005.

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|4|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Düsseldorf

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| nationality = German

| institution = Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

| field = Political economics, Monetary economics

| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Heidelberg

| doctoral_advisor = Peter Diamond{{cite thesis |last= Hellwig |first= Martin Friedrich |date= 1973 |title= Sequential models in economic dynamics |type= Ph.D. |publisher= MIT |hdl= 1721.1/13930 |url= https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/13930 |access-date= 8 February 2017 }}

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Martin Friedrich Hellwig (born 5 April 1949) is a German economist. He has been the director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods since 2004, after spending his academic career as a professor at University of Bonn (1977–1987), University of Basel (1987–1995), Harvard University (1995–1996), and University of Mannheim (1996–2004). Between 2000 and 2004 he was the head of the German {{Interlanguage link|Monopolkommission|de|vertical-align=sup}}. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association.{{Cite web|title=Fellows {{!}} EEA|url=https://www.eeassoc.org/fellows|access-date=2021-03-23|website=www.eeassoc.org}}

Selected publications

  • {{cite journal |last1=Blum |first1=Jürg |last2=Hellwig |first2=Martin |author2-mask=3 |title=The Macroeconomic Implications of Capital Adequacy Requirements for Banks |journal=European Economic Review |volume=39 |issue=3–4 |year=1995 |pages=739–749 |doi=10.1016/0014-2921(94)00081-A }}
  • {{cite journal |first1=Christopher |last1=Pissarides |author-link=Christopher Pissarides |first2=Richard |last2=Layard |first3=Martin |last3=Hellwig |author3-mask=3 |title=Unemployment and Vacancies in Britain |journal=Economic Policy |volume=1 |issue=3 |year=1986 |pages=499–559 |doi=10.2307/1344583 |jstor=1344583 }}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Gale |first1=Douglas |first2=Martin |last2=Hellwig |author2-mask=3 |title=Incentive-Compatible Debt Contracts: The One-Period Problem |journal=Review of Economic Studies |year=1985 |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=647–663 |doi=10.2307/2297737 |jstor=2297737 }}

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