Andre Schmidt

Chair of Macroeconomics and International Economics

Research specialisations:

• European integration and European economic policy
• Fiscal and tax policy
• International trade
• Financial markets and macroeconomic development

Appointment:

since July 2008
Chair of Macroeconomics and International Economics at the Private Witten/Herdecke University

March 2007 - June 2008
Holder of the Chair of International Economic Policy at the European Business School, International University Schloss Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel

Oct. 2006 - Feb. 2007
Deputy chair for general economic policy at the University of Kassel

Oct. 2005 - Sept. 2006
Senior Assistant at the Chair of Economics, in particular International Economic Policy with Prof. Dr Renate Ohr at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2005
Deputy Chair (C4) for Economic Policy II (Professorship Nienhaus) at the Ruhr-University Bochum

Aug. 2000 - Sept. 2004
Research Assistant at the Chair of Economics, in particular International Economic Policy with Prof. Dr Renate Ohr at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

Oct. 1994 - July 2000
Academic staff member at the Chair of Economics, in particular Price, Market and Competition Theory and Policy with Prof. Dr Ingo Schmidt (until SS 1999) and Prof. Dr Ulrich Schwalbe (from WS 1999/2000 to SS 2000) at the University of Hohenheim
 

Scientific education:

July 2004
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification at the Georg-August University of Göttingen
(venia legendi for the field of Economics)

December 1997
Doctoral studies (Dr. oec.) (University of Hohenheim)

Oct. 1988 - May 1994
Studied economics at the University of Hohenheim, graduated with a degree in economics
 

Committee activity:

April 2017 - July 2021
Vice dean for teaching at the Faculty of Economics at Witten/Herdecke University

Dec. 2008 - Oct. 2014
Vice dean for teaching in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University

Oct. 2008 - Oct. 2011
Chairman of the doctoral studies and habilitation committee of the Faculty of Economics at Witten/Herdecke University

Oct. 2008 - Oct. 2010
Chairman of the examination board for the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes in economics at Witten/Herdecke University

April 2007 - April 2008
Management Committee Teaching at the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel

Feb. 2004 - Sept. 2006
Representative of the group of academic staff in the study commission of the Department of Economics at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

Oct. 2000 - April 2004
Representative of the group of academic staff on the Board of the Department of Economics at the University of Göttingen

• Macroeconomics
• Institutional economics
• Economic and fiscal policy
• Monetary Economics
• International Economics

• Competition policy
• European economic policy
• Tax and fiscal policy
• International macroeconomics

Memberships:

• European Association of Law and Economics (EALE)
• University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
• Verein für Socialpolitik, Economic Policy Committee and Competition Working Group
• Antitrust Law Working Group of the Federal Cartel Office
• European Integration Working Group
• Political Economy Working Group
• Centre for Globalisation and Europeanisation of the Economy in Göttingen (CEGE)
• Walter Eucken Institute, University of Freiburg