Prof.Dr.Hansjörg Herr

Professional Experience

since 1994	Professor for Economics at the Berlin School of Economics (FHW) and the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (FHTW)
1993	Guest professor at the University of Applied Science Berlin
1983 - 1993	Fellow of the Science Centre for Social Research Berlin, several research projects for example about external constraints of fiscal policy or the macroeconomic performance of transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe (together with the central banks of Czech Republic and Hungary)
1981 - 1983	Teaching and Research Assistant at the Institute of Theory of Macroeconomic Policy at the Free University of Berlin

Specific Professional Experience

• academic board of "Macroeconomic Policy Studies" in Berlin since 1999
• cooperation with the People's Bank of China (international training department)
• cooperation with the Berlin and Brandenburg Branch of the German Bundesbank
• cooperation including joint research projects and publications with Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu/PR China
• cooperation with Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang/PR China
• lectures and consulting concerning the regional integration of Central Asian transition countries in Kyrgystan and Uzbekistan on missions of the German Foundation for International Development 1994-96
• consultant missioned by GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit/German Technical Development Cooperation Agency):
• (poverty reduction in less developed countries)
• consultant missioned by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
• (wages, employment and prices. An analysis of the relationship between the wage level, wage structure, minimum wages and employment and prices)

Research Areas

• Macroeconomics and International Monetary Systems (Theory and Historical Development)
• European Integration
• Transition Economics

Teaching focussed on:

• macroeconomics
• microeconomics
• international economics
• economic policies
• monetary polices

Teaching in "Macroeconomic Policy Studies":

• advanced macroeconomics

Publications

• 2002: Das Finanzsystem in der VR China - Funktionsweise und Reformdruck. In: H. Herr, A. Sommer, He Zerong (Hrsg.), Nachholende Entwicklung in China. Geldpolitik und Restrukturierung, Berlin
• 2000: Transformation und deformierte Finanzmärkte - Die VR China im Vergleich mit mittel- und osteuropäischen Transformationsländern. Osteuropa-Wirtschaft, Vol. 45, again publised in Chenese in: Contemporary Finance and Economics, 1999, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
• 2000 (together with Heine, M.): Volkswirtschaftslehre. Paradigmenorientierte Einführung in die Mikro- und Makroökonomie, 2. ergänzte Auflage, München
• 1999 (together with) (eds.): Der "lange Marsch" in die Marktwirtschaft. Entwicklungen und Erfahrungen in der VR China und Osteuropa, Berlin
• 1999 (together with Tober, S.): Pathways to Capitalism - Explaining the Differences in the Economic Development of the Visegrád States, the States of the Former Soviet Union, and China. Working Papers No 5 of the Business Institute Berlin an der Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin
• 1999 (together with Priewe, J.): High Growth in China - Transition without a Transition Crisis?, Intereconomics, Vol. 34, again publised in Chenese in: Zhongnan Caijing Daxue Xuebao, Journal of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, No. 1/2000, Wuhan, VR China
• 1998 (together with Tober S.): Explaining the Difference in the Economic Development of Countries in Transition. Working Paper 85, Cseka Narodni Banka, Institut Ekonomie
• 1997: The International Monetary System and Domestic Policy. In: D. J. Forsyth, T. Notermans (eds.): Regime Changes. Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Regulations in Europe from the 1930s to the 1990s, Cambridge/USA
• 1994: Two Views on How a Deformed Monetary Economy Can Be Developed. In: M. Perczynsky, J. Kregel, E. Matzner (eds.): After the Market Shock. Central and Eastern Economies in Transition, Aldershot.
• 1994 (together with Tober, S., Westphal, A.): Output Collaps and Economic Recovery in Central and Eastern Europe. In: H. Herr, S. Tober, A. Westphal (eds.): Macroeconomic Problems of Transformation. Stabilization Policies and Economic Restructuring, Aldershot
• 1994 (together with Tober, S., Westphal, A.): A Strategy for Economic Transformation and Development. In: Perczynski, M., Kregel, J., Matzner, E. (eds.): After the Market Shock. Central and Eastern Economies in Transition, Aldershot
• 1992: Geld, Währungswettbewerb und Währungssysteme. Theoretische und historische Analyse einer internationalen Geldwirtschaft, Frankfurt, New York,
• Japanese Translation in 1995
• 1991: International Constraints on Fiscal Policy: An International Comparison. In: E. Matzner, W. Streeck (eds.), Beyond Keynesianism. The Socio-Economics of Production and Full Employment, Aldershot; published again in: Zhongliang Shi, Jiajun Wu (eds.), China's Industrial Development and Enterprise Reform, Economic Management Publishing House, Jiangxi University of Finanance and Economics, Nanchang, PR China, 2001
• 1989: On Post-Keynesian Crisis Theory: The Meaning of Financial Instability. In: W. Väth (ed.), Political Regulation in the "Great Crisis", Berlin