Lars P. Feld#
| Membership Number: | 5854 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.eucken.de/en/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-lars-p-feld/ |
| Twitter: | @Lars_Feld |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Job offer as Full Professor in Public Finance and Social Security Economics at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich (Switzerland) (rejected in May 2012)
- Since 2010 Director of the Walter Eucken Institute
- Since 2010 University Professor (W3) of Economics, in particular Economic Policy and Economics of Order, at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg i.Br. (successor of Prof. Dr. V. Vanberg)
- 2008 Job offer as Full professor for Economics, in particular Economic Theory of Politics, at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) (declined in September 2008)
- Since 2007 Visiting Professor at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim
- 2006 - 2007 Research Professor at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim
- 2006 - 2010 University Professor (W3) of Economics, especially Public Finance, at the University of Heidelberg
- 2005 Job offer as Full Professor (W3) of economics, especially municipal and environmental economics, at the University of Trier (rejected in March 2006)
- 2002 - 2006 University Professor (C4) of Economics, especially Public Finance, at the University of Marburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Federalism
- Political economics
- Public finance
- Social ecurity
- Public ector economics
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Hildesheim
- 2017 Honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c. oec.) from the University of Lucerne
- 2014 First Rector's Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
- 2013 Award as most influential German economist in the first economist ranking of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 206 of September 5, 2013, p. 11 (1st place in the ranking) (since then in the top ten every year)
- 2012 Best Paper Award of the T-H-E (Tübingen Hohenheim Economics) Christmas Workshop in Hohenheim (with ALEXANDER KALB, MARC-DANIEL MOESSINGER and STEFFEN OSTERLOH)
- 2011 Appointment as Saarland Ambassador by the Prime Minister of the Saarland, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
- Since 2008 full member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (National Academy of Sciences)
- 2008 Awarded the Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review, 2007-2008 by the American Economic Association
- 2003 Runner-Up Paper (2nd place) in the competition for the OECD Jan Francke Tax Research Award (with BRUNO S. FREY)
- 2001 Best Paper Prize of the IIPF for the best work of a young scientist (under 40 years) at its 57th Congress in Linz, Austria
- 1999 Young Scholar Award of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) at its 55th Congress in Moscow, Russia
- 1996 Wicksell Prize of the European Public Choice Society for the best work of a young scientist (under 30 years of age) at the annual conference of the Society in Tiberias, Israel
