Lüder Gerken

Luder Gerken ( born July 30, 1958 in Bremen ) is a German economist.

Career

After graduation Gerken trained as a banker. From 1981 to 1991 he studied economics ( diploma in Economics in 1985, PhD 1988) and law (First State Examination in Law, 1991). Then headed Gerken 1991-2001 the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg im Breisgau. He habilitated in 1998 at the University of Bayreuth and received the qualification to teach economics. He is an honorary professor at the Jacobs University in Bremen. From 2001 to 2004 Gerken was on the board of the Market Economy Foundation in Berlin. Since 1999 he has been Chairman of the Board of the Foundation Governance and Board of the Friedrich- August-von - Hayek -Stiftung, since 2006 director of the Centre for European Policy. He was interim curator of the Initiative New Social Market Economy.

His work focuses on domestic and international regulatory policy, European integration and location competition.

Publications

• Of freedom and free trade: outlines of a ordoliberalen Trade Theory. (1999). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
• The competition between states. (1999). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
• Green Trim Economics: An option of modern economic policy? (2000). Together with Gerhard Schick. Marburg: Metropolis. ( With contributions by Reinhard Bütikofer; Juergen Donges, Bruno Frey, Ralf Fücks; Luder Gerken, Luder Gerken and Gerhard Schick, Herbert Giersch, Rolf Hasse; Guy Kirsch; Rudi Short; Joachim Starbatty; Roland Vaubel; Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, etc.)
• International tax competition. (2000). Together with Jörg Märkt and Gerhard Schick. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
• Walter Eucken and his work. Review of the architects of the social market economy. (2000). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
• Governance in the world economy. Together with Otto Graf Lambsdorff ( 2001). Baden -Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. ( With contributions by Charles Blankart, Rainer Brüderle, Klaus Bunger, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Berend Diekmann, Paul Friedhoff, Wolfgang Gerhardt, Luder Gerken, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Rolf Hasse, Wolfgang Kerber, Henning Klodt, Ekkehard Kurth, Andreas Pinkwart, Wolf Schäfer, Richard Senti, Hermann- Otto Solms, Thomas Straubhaar, Hans Tietmeyer, Carl- Ludwig Thiele, Roland Vaubel, Guido Westerwelle. )
• A liberal supranational Federation - Division of responsibilities in Europe. (2002). Together with Jörg Märkt, Gerhard Schick and Andreas Renner. Baden -Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
• The Constitution of Liberty in the Open Economy. ( 2004). London: Routledge.