Stefan Homburg

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Homburg in 2021

Stefan Homburg (born March 10, 1961) is a German retired professor of

University of Hannover
, Lower Saxony, Germany until 2021. Outside academia he is best known for his controversial statements regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Homburg studied economics, philosophy, and mathematics at the

University of Magdeburg
, before he moved to Hannover.

Homburg's research focuses on macroeconomics and public finance. He has co-authored a textbook in macroeconomics. Other publications address topics in monetary policy, social security, tax law, and business taxation.

Homburg served as a member of several policy committees, including the Advisory Council at the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Federal Constitutional Commission (Bundesstaatskommission), and the Federal Government's Council for Sustainable Developments (RNE). Between 1999 and 2007, he acted as Dean of Hannover's School of Economics and Management. From 1996 until 2003, he was editor of journals of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik).[1]

In 2020 Homburg voiced criticism of the German government's response to

University of Hannover has called this comparison "intolerable" and has distanced itself from Homburg.[6]

Selected publications

  • A Study in Monetary Macroeconomics, Oxford University Press 2017, .
  • Allgemeine Steuerlehre, 7th ed. Vahlen 2015, .
  • Compulsory Savings in the Welfare State. Journal of Public Economics 77, 2000, pp. 233–239.
  • Interest and Growth in an Economy with Land. Canadian Journal of Economics 24, 1991, pp. 450–459.
  • Coping With Rational Prodigals. Economica 73, 2006, pp. 47–58.
  • Explaining the Rise and Decline of the Dollar Kyklos 43, 1990, pp. 53–68 (mit J. Hoffmann).
  • Property Taxes and Dynamic Efficiency: A Correction. Economics Letters 123, 2014, pp. 327–328.
  • The Efficiency of Unfunded Pension Schemes. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 146, 1990, pp. 640–647.
  • Overaccumulation, Public Debt and the Importance of Land. German Economic Review 15, 2014, pp. 411–435.
  • Competition and Co-ordination in International Capital Income Taxation. FinanzArchiv 56, 1999, pp. 1–17.
  • What Caused the Great Recession? Review of Economics 66, 2015, pp. 1–12.[7]

References

  1. ^ Stefan Homburg's CV
  2. ^ a b c Brinkmann, Bastian (14 May 2020). "Prof. Dr. Verschwörung" [Prof. Dr. Conspiracy]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b Mumme, Thorsten (29 May 2020). "Ein Wirtschaftsprofessor als raunender Corona-Kritiker" [An Economics Professor as a Murmuring Corona Critic]. Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  4. ^ Homburg, Stefan (15 April 2020). "Warum Deutschlands Lockdown falsch ist — und Schweden vieles besser macht" [Why Germany's Lockdown is Wrong and Sweden is Doing Many Things Better]. Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  5. ^ "War das Kontaktverbot überflüssig?" [Were the Contact Limitations Unnecessary?]. n-tv (in German). 24 April 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  6. ^ ""Unerträglich" – Uni distanziert sich von Homburg" ["Intolerable" – University Distances Itself From Homburg]. Norddeutscher Rundfunk (in German). 26 May 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  7. ^ Stefan Homburg's publication list

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