Prof. Dr. Burkhard Heer

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Faculty of Business and Economics
Phone: +49 821 598 - 4180
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Room: 2417 (J)
Address: Universitätsstraße 16, 86159 Augsburg

 

Secretary:

Anja Erdl

Phone: +49 821 598-4180

E-Mail: anja.erdl@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

 

Office hours:

Please make an appointment for Prof. Dr. Heer’s office hours by contacting Anja Erdl via E-Mail.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Burkhard Heer is professor of public economics at the University of Augsburg, Germany, since 2012. Previously, he was professor of economics at the Universities of Bolzano, Bamberg, and Innsbruck. Burkhard Heer received his Phd in economics from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1996. He was visiting scholar at various institutions including Georgetown University, Stanford University, Fordham University at New York, University of Quebec at Montreal, University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis.  Burkhard Heer is also affiliated with the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich, Germany, and the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar), Tilburg, the Netherlands. His research interests include public economics and distribution macroeconomics. He also published two Springer graduate textbooks on "Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling: Computational Methods and Applications" (joint with Alfred Maussner) and on “Public Economics”.

Research Topics

  • Optimal Taxation
  • Social Security Systems
  • Distributional Economics
  • Business Cycles
  • Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models

Lectures

(applied filters: semester: current | institute: Prof. Dr. Burkhard Heer - Finanzwissenschaft | course types: Vorlesung)
name semester type language
Finanzwissenschaftliche Steuerlehre (Vorlesung) winter semester 2024/25 Vorlesung deutsch
International Monetary Economics (Vorlesung) winter semester 2024/25 Vorlesung englisch

Publications

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2024

Burkhard Heer und Alfred Maußner
Dynamic general equilibrium modeling: computational methods and applications

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2023

Burkhard Heer und Mark Trede
Age-specific entrepreneurship and PAYG: public pensions in Germany

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Burkhard Heer, Andreas Irmen und Bernd Süssmuth
Explaining the decline in the US labor share: taxation and automation

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2021

Burkhard Heer und Stefan Rohrbacher
Endogenous longevity and optimal tax progressivity

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2020

Burkhard Heer, Vito Polito und Michael R. Wickens
Population aging, social security and fiscal limits

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2019

Burkhard Heer
Public economics: the macroeconomic perspective

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2018

Burkhard Heer, Alfred Maußner und Bernd Süssmuth
Cyclical asset returns in the consumption and investment goods sector

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Burkhard Heer
Optimal pensions in aging economies

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Burkhard Heer und Alfred Maußner
Projection methods and the curse of dimensionality

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Burkhard Heer und Christian Scharrer
The age-specific burdens of short-run fluctuations in government spending

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2017

Burkhard Heer, Stefan Rohrbacher und Christian Scharrer
Aging, the great moderation and business-cycle volatility in a life-cycle model

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Burkhard Heer, Alfred Maußner und Halvor Ruf
Q-targeting in New Keynesian models

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2015

Alfred Maußner und Burkhard Heer
The Cash-In-Advance Constraint in Monetary Growth Models with Labor Market Search

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Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. Online bereits 2013 veröffentlicht.

2014

Burkhard Heer und Andreas Irmen
Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

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2013

Burkhard Heer
A note on the cyclical behaviour of the income distribution

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Alfred Maußner und Burkhard Heer
Asset returns, the business cycle, and the labor market

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Burkhard Heer und Bernd Süssmuth
Tax bracket creep and its effects on income distribution

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2012

Burkhard Heer und Alfred Maußner
Log-normal approximation of the equity premium in the production model

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Alfred Maußner und Burkhard Heer
The Burden of Unanticipated Inflation: Analysis of an Overlapping-Generations Model with Progressive Income Taxation and Staggered Prices

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Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. Online bereits 2011 veröffentlicht.

Burkhard Heer und Stefan Franz Schubert
Unemployment and debt dynamics in a highly indebted small open economy

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2011

Burkhard Heer, Alfred Maußner und Paul D. McNelis
The money-age distribution: empirical facts and the limits of three monetary models

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Alfred Maußner und Burkhard Heer
Value Function Iteration as a Solution Method for the Ramsey Model

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2010

Alfred Maußner und Burkhard Heer
Inflation and output dynamics in a model with labor market search and capital accumulation

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2009

Alfred Maußner und Burkhard Heer
Computation of Business-Cycle Models with the Generalized Schur Method

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Burkhard Heer und Alfred Maußner
Dynamic general equilibrium modeling

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Burkhard Heer und Bernd Süssmuth
The savings-inflation puzzle

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2008

Alfred Maußner und Burkhard Heer
Computation of Business Cycle Models: A Comparison of Numerical Methods

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Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

2007

Burkhard Heer und Bernd Süssmuth
Effects of inflation on wealth distribution: do stock market participation fees and capital income taxation matter?

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2006

Burkhard Heer und Mark Trede
Nichtkooperative Differenzialspiele in der Ökonomie

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Burkhard Heer
Should Unemployment Benefits Be Related to Previous Earnings?

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2005

Burkhard Heer und Alfred Maußner
Berechenbare Generationenmodelle

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Burkhard Heer und Alfred Maußner
Dynamic general equilibrium modelling: computational methods and applications

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2. Auflage 2009

Burkhard Heer und Albrecht Morgenstern
The labor market effects of indexing unemployment benefits to previous earnings

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2004

Burkhard Heer
Nonsuperneutrality of money in the Sidrauski model with heterogenous agents

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Burkhard Heer und Mark Trede
Taxation of labour and capital income in an OLG model with home production and endogenous fertility

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2003

Burkhard Heer und Mark Trede
Efficiency and distribution effects of a revenue-neutral income tax reform

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Burkhard Heer
Employment and welfare effects of a two-tier unemployment compensation system

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Burkhard Heer
Welfare costs of inflation in a dynamic economy with search unemployment

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2002

Burkhard Heer
Comment on "The influence of aging on capital accumulation" by David Miles

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Burkhard Heer und Andreas Schabert
Open Market Shocks in a Business Cycle Model with Financial Intermediation

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Burkhard Heer
The German unemployment compensation system: effects of aggregate savings and wealth distribution

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2001

Burkhard Heer
On the welfare gain from stabilizing cyclical fluctuations

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Burkhard Heer
Wealth distribution and optimal inheritance taxation in life-cycle economies with intergenerational transfers

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2000

Burkhard Heer und Mark Trede
On the Use of Projection Methods in the Computation of OLG Models / Zur Berechnung von OLG-Modellen mit Hilfe von Projektionsmethoden

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Hans Peter Grüner und Burkhard Heer
Optimal flat-rate taxes on capital: a re-examination of Lucas' supply side model

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Burkhard Heer
Time-elemination method: ein nummerisches Beispiel

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1999

Burkhard Heer
Korreferat zum Beitrag "Neue Wachstumstheorie und Theorie realer Konjunkturzyklen" von Bernd Lucke

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1998

Burkhard Heer und Mark Trede
How did the german government parties succeed in stabilizing cyclical fluctuations?

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Burkhard Heer und Ludger Linnemann
Procyclical labor productivity: sources and implications

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1997

Burkhard Heer, Mark Trede und Mark Wahrenburg
The effect of option trading at the DTB on the underlying stocks' return variance

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Burkhard Heer
Umwelt, Bevölkerungsdruck und Wirtschaftswachstum in den Entwicklungsländern

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Burkhard Heer
Unemployment insurance vs. welfare payments: a dynamic CGE analysis of employment and welfare effects

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1996

Burkhard Heer und Andreas Schabert
Einkommensverteilung und Wachstum

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Burkhard Heer
Income and emission taxation in a model of economic development, population growth and the environment

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1995

Burkhard Heer
Lösung dynamischer Probleme mit Hilfe der Kontrolltheorie

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Alfred Maußner und Burkhard Heer
Modellkonzepte der dynamischen Makroökonomik

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1994

Hans Peter Grüner und Burkhard Heer
Taxation of income and wealth in a model of endogenous growth

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