Martin Hellwig
German economist
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 from 2004 to 2017. Between 2000 and 2004, he was the head of the German Monopolkommission.
Education and career
Hellwig studied economics at the University of Heidelberg, where he received his diploma in 1970. He completed his Ph.D. in economics under Peter Diamond at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1974 to 1977, Hellwig was an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University. He then returned to Germany as Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn from 1977 to 1979, becoming a full Professor of Economics there from 1979 to 1987. He subsequently held a professorship at the University of Basel from 1987 to 1996. From 1996 to 2004, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim.
During his time in Basel, Hellwig also held visiting positions including the Bogen Visiting Professorship at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994 and the Taussig Research Professorship at Harvard University from 1995 to 1996.
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