Stefan Voigt

Stefan Voigt (born 19 August 1962) is a German economist and one of the Directors of the University of Hamburg's Institute of Law and Economics. He is also a Fellow of CESifo in Munich.[1]

Previous positions include chairs at the Philipps-University Marburg, the University of Kassel, the Ruhr University Bochum, a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, a senior fellowship at the Krupp Kolleg in Greifswald and a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena.[2]

Voigt's research focus is on institutional economics. He has a particular interest in the economic analysis of public law in general and constitutional law in particular. He has published textbooks in German and English in these fields.[3] His particular research interest is the economic effects of judicial institutions[4] and the economics of human rights. Voigt has published around 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics,[5]

Currently, Voigt is the co-editor of Constitutional Political Economy[6] is a member of the editorial board of Public Choice and International Review of Law & Economics.

He was born in Hamburg, Germany.

  1. ^ "Our Faculty - EDLE". European Doctorate in Law and Economics.
  2. ^ "University of Hamburg - Faculty Webpage". University of Hamburg. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  3. ^ Voigt, Stefan (2019). Institutional Economics: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108473248.
  4. ^ Lars, Feld; Stefan, Voigt (2003). "Economic growth and judicial independence: cross-country evidence using a new set of indicators" (PDF). European Journal of Political Economy. 19 (3): 497–527. doi:10.1016/S0176-2680(03)00017-X. S2CID 2303068.
  5. ^ "Meet Our Fellows". Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Constitutional Political Economy". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2 February 2019.