Martin Hellwig

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 Monopolkommission [de]. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association.^[2]

Martin F. Hellwig
Hellwig in 2005.
Born	(1949-04-05) 5 April 1949 (age 76) Düsseldorf
Academic background
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Heidelberg
Doctoral advisor	Peter Diamond[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Political economics, Monetary economics
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Selected publications

• Blum, Jürg; ——— (1995). "The Macroeconomic Implications of Capital Adequacy Requirements for Banks". European Economic Review. 39 (3–4): 739–749. doi:10.1016/0014-2921(94)00081-A.
• Pissarides, Christopher; Layard, Richard; ——— (1986). "Unemployment and Vacancies in Britain". Economic Policy. 1 (3): 499–559. doi:10.2307/1344583. JSTOR 1344583.
• Gale, Douglas; ——— (1985). "Incentive-Compatible Debt Contracts: The One-Period Problem". Review of Economic Studies. 52 (4): 647–663. doi:10.2307/2297737. JSTOR 2297737.