Bernd Lucke
Bernd Lucke ( born August 19, 1962 in Berlin ) is a German economist and politician ( AfD ). He is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Hamburg. He co-founded the " Electoral Alternative for 2013 ", was instrumental in the creation of the euro critical alternative for Germany and is one of three elected party speakers, which together form the Executive head of the party.
- 4.1 dealing with Forsa and Allen Bach
- 4.2 choice of words after the parliamentary election in 2013
- 5.1 Monographs
- 5.2 Discussion Papers
Life
Lucke was born in 1962 as the son of a civil engineer and a school principal in West Berlin. 1969 the family moved to Neuss in North Rhine -Westphalia, and later to Haan. After high school he served in Neuss, as flutist, his military service at the Military Band of the Bundeswehr in Siegburg from.
Following Lucke studied from 1982 to 1984 as a scholar of the Foundation of the German People Economics, Philosophy and Modern History at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. After a one-year DAAD scholarship in the Graduate Program of the Economics Department of the University of California, Berkeley, he In 1985 he returned to Bonn and graduated in 1987 with a degree in economics from. He was then to 1988 Researcher at the Institute for Agricultural Policy, Market Research and Economic Sociology at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn. In parallel, he began studying mathematics at the University of Hagen.
From 1988 to 1990, Lucke Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the Graduate School " Applied Microeconomics " of the Research Division of Business and Economics at the Free University of Berlin and then in 1990 Research Fellow at the Advisory Council on the implementation of the social market economy in the GDR. In 1991, he was with Jürgen Wolters, Department of Economics at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets: An Application rer to the World Market for Sugar, the grade " summa cum laude" Dr.. pol. doctorate. From 1991 to 1992 he was the lead speaker at the Senator of Finance of the State of Berlin Elmar Pieroth ( CDU).
From 1992 to 1998 Lucke worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Statistics and Econometrics of the Department of Economics at the Free University of Berlin. In 1997, with the work on the theory and empirical real business cycles, the Habilitation ( venia legendi ) in Economics and Econometrics. Between 1995 and 1996 he was on maternity leave. Lucke ran from 1997 to 2000 funded by the DFG research project a consistent macro-econometric equilibrium model. In the summer semester 1998 he held a visiting professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin, as the representative of the compartment economic policy. Since 1998 he is the successor Uwe Westphal professor of economics at the University of Hamburg and Director of the Institute for Growth and Business Cycle at the Faculty of there for Economic and Social Sciences.
In the years 2000 and 2001 Lucke was head of the research project funded by the FEMISE Fiscal Impact of Trade Liberalisation - The Case of Jordan and Syria. After a further one-year parental leave, he headed between 2002 and 2007, the DFG-funded research project growth and economic integration in the Middle East. From 2003 to 2005 gap was Liason Study Foundation of the German people. In the same year he declined a professorship at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2003 to 2004 he was then head of the FEMISE funded research project Regional Integration and Resource Use in the Middle East: Oil, Water, and the Need for Peace. In 2004 he was in the function of a World Bank Consultant ( Trade Liberalization in Syria ) and from 2006 to 2007 Head of the FEMISE funded research project Assessing the Macroeconomic Effects of the Barcelona initiative 's Liberalization Process.
2007 and 2008 held Lucke a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver ( Canada). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals such as the European Economic Review, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, and Economics Letters.
Lucke is married and has five children with whom he lives in Winsen ( Luhe) in Hamburg. He is a member of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Hamburg.
Economic Scientific work
Lucke published in 1994/95, a discussion paper, which is the only economics analysis of the privatization policy of the Trust Agency represented to date. His investigations revealed that by certain purchase price discounts the investment could rise and failed job promises higher. Although economic growth was recorded, the measures for the state from a budgetary point of view were too high.
The financial scientist Burkhard Heer, currently professor at the University of Augsburg, in 1999 wrote a comment on Luckes economic research (real -business -cycle models with endogenous growth). In it he presents his " innovative results " out: "1 Economy models with endogenous growth per se does not generate persistence in the growth rate of output "and" 2 To generate a sufficient condition to Outputpersistenz in RBC models is the assumption that the exogenous shock drifft the future endogenous variable ".
Lucke was listed in economists ranking " Top 250 researchers working life " of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute in accordance with the Handelsblatt on the 176th (2010 ) and the 148th Course ( 2011). In 2013 it reached 317 to 240 place. Relevance justify scientific publications of economists in journals since the beginning of his career.
Political action
Hamburger appeal
Lucke was with Michael Funke and Thomas Straubhaar one of the three main initiators of the just before the 2005 federal election by 243 economists signed hamburger roll call for economic reform in Germany. This reduction of labor costs was designated as the key to overcoming the German weak growth and required a change in the social policy of wage replacement benefits to wage subsidies. Fiscal policy interventions to increase the demand has been rejected as a disruption of the structure of aggregate demand.
Plenary of economists
Lucke published under the impact of the global financial crisis from 2007, a "founding Calling all German university teacher of economics ." In it, he called for
"Founding a plenum of economists as an electronic full meeting of all university teachers of economics who teach at a German university or as a German citizen in a foreign university. The plenary session of the economists advising and manifests itself exclusively to economic exceptional situations of outstanding national importance. The sole objective of the plenary is to inform the public and the democratic legitimacy of the Federal Republic of Germany timely and well-founded on the assessment of that State serving scientists. "
A total of 328 economics professors signed the call (as of June 2011) and were thus plenary Member; Lucke has since its founding Managing Director of the Plenum of economists. The plenary spoke out in February 2011 by a large majority against an extension of the euro bailout fund from.
Lucke was one of 172 economics professors who signed the open letter of economists to euro crisis in July 2012. He was also one of 136 German economics professors, including Roland Vaubel, Hans -Werner Sinn, Juergen B. Donges, Manfred JM Neumann, Georg Milbradt that shortly before the parliamentary elections in September 2013 in a call to the European Central Bank ( ECB) unlawful monetary state financing accused.
Change the political home
Lucke joined with 14 years of the Junge Union, because the policy of détente Willy Brandt the lives of his relatives did not improve significantly in the GDR. Lucke was 33 years member of the CDU, before he left this in December 2011 because he holds the Euro - bailout policy for missed. Lucke and John Hüdepohl are speakers of non-partisan collective movement alliance citizens will. Several times he has published detailed comments about the debt crisis in the daily press. He was a candidate on the list # 3 on the Free Voters in the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013. Moreover, he and Alexander Gauland, Konrad Adam and Gerd Robanus the euro critical choice alternative in 2013.
Speaker and the top candidate AfD
On 14 April 2013, the new political party alternative for Germany ( AFD ) with Lucke was established as one of three selected speakers on this base in Berlin. At the inaugural event of the AfD Lucke said the introduction of the euro had been " historic mistake " one. At the general election in 2013 was a candidate gap as the leading candidate of his party in Lower Saxony and as a direct candidate in the constituency Harburg. He received 5.7% of votes cast.
During an election rally on August 24, 2013, Bremen Lucke was attacked and pushed off the stage. According to the Bremen police based a spread first of their press release with an exaggerated description of the incident on information provided by event organizers and AfD members.
On the national party AfD in Aschaffenburg on January 25, 2014 Lucke was elected top candidate for the forthcoming European elections on May 25, 2014.
Controversies
Confrontation with Forsa and Allen Bach
Lucke claimed in an interview with Handelsblatt end of August, 2013, pollsters would manipulate polls to the detriment of the AfD by taking up the scope of the statistical analysis to attribute the small party. There would be " clear evidence of employees of the pollsters " that " In the raw data of Allen Bach and Forsa " the AfD would " significantly higher than five percent " are. The polling institute Forsa procured an action before the Landgericht Köln an injunction against Lucke under threat of a fine. The managing director of the Forsa institute, Manfred Güllner, subsequently announced that call Lucke future "lying - gap " to. An injunction directed against Luckes the Hamburg Regional Court was unsuccessful, as it was assessed by the court as a permissible expression.
Choice of words after the parliamentary election in 2013
On the evening of the parliamentary election in 2013 summed up Lucke, his party had democracy " upgraded " after you 've experienced in the past four years, " so much to degeneration of democracy and parliamentarianism ". The choice of words "degeneration " was charged as historical and populist criticism. Lucke defended his formulation later in the talk show Anne Will and tough but fair. He had the wording is not used in an authoritarian terms and not in terms of biology, but want to express that democracy is losing its character and thus " degenerate " if the government through pressure of time deny Parliament the opportunity to learn about important laws to make their own judgments.
Writings (selection )
Monographs
- Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets: An Application to the World Market for Sugar ( = Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Volume 393). Springer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-540-56099-8 ( = at the same time Dissertation, FU Berlin, 1991).
- Theory and empirical real business cycles. With 73 tables ( = Studies in contemporary economics ). Physica -Verlag, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-7908-1148-3 ( = at the same time habilitation, FU Berlin, 1997: Contributions to the theory and empirical real business cycles).
- Fiscal Impact of Trade Liberalization: The Case of Syria. FEMISE Research Report for the European Commission, Marseille 2001 ( PDF).
Discussion Papers
- With Paul Beaudry: Letting Different Views about Business Cycles Compete; appeared as NBER Working Paper in May 2009 (PDF).
- With Harald Hau, Ulrich Hege: The risky grip on the lever; appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23 October 2011.
- With Harald Hau: The alternative to the rescue: Mandatory recapitalization of banks ( PDF); published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 16 September 2011.
- With Jacopo Zotti: Assessing the Macroeconomic Effects of the Barcelona initiative. 2012 (PDF )
- With Jacopo Zotti: Welfare -optimal trade and competition policies in small open economies oligopolistic; published on 22 November 2012; published in the Journal of International Trade & Economic Development [ Vol 23, Issue 3, 2014]