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Alexander Fink

University of Leipzig Email: fink.alexander@gmail.com Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik Phone: 0049 (0) 341-9733564 Grimmaische Str. 12 Website: www.alexander-fink.com 04109 Leipzig

Germany Employment

Since 11/2011, Assistant Professor, University of Leipzig, Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik, Germany

06/2011–10/2011, Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group, Jena, Germany

Other Affiliations

Since 09/2012, Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues (IREF) Education

Ph.D. in Economics, May 2011, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States

(Dissertation title: “Three Essays in Political Economy with Applications to the Hanseatic League”)

M.A. in Economics, March 2007, University of Hamburg, Germany

Visiting Fellow, Fall 2006, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States Visiting Student, Fall 2005, University Sorbonne-Panthéon Paris I, France

M.A. in Business Administration, October 2004, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Visiting Student, Spring 2004, Claremont Graduate University, CA, United States Visiting Student, Fall 2003, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

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2/7 Research Fields

 Political Economy

 Institutional Economics

 Law and Economics

 Economic History Journal Articles

“U.S. Housing Prices and the Fukushima Nuclear Accident” (with Thomas Stratmann).

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 117 2015: 309-326.

“Kidnap Insurance and its Impact on Kidnapping Outcomes” (with Mark Pingle). Public Choice, 160(3-4) 2014: 481-499.

“Free Banking as an Evolving System: the Case of Switzerland Revisited.” The Review of Austrian Economics 27(1) 2014: 57-69.

“Political Entrepreneurship and the Formation of Special Districts” (with Richard E. Wagner). European Journal of Law and Economics, 35(3) 2013: 427-439.

“The Impact of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics: Mainline vs. Mainstream” (with Peter J. Boettke and Daniel J. Smith). The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 71(5) 2012: 1219-1249.

“The Effects of Party Campaign Spending under Proportional Representation: Evidence from Germany.” European Journal of Political Economy, 28(4) 2012: 574-592.

“The Hanseatic League and the Concept of Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions.” Kyklos 65(2) 2012: 194-217.

“Bandit Heroes: Mythical, Social, or Rational?” (with Nicholas A. Curott). The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 72(2) 2012: 470-497.

“Norms in Sports Contests: The Tour de France” (with Daniel J. Smith). Journal of Sport Management 26(1) 2012: 43-52.

“Institutionalized Bailouts and Fiscal Policy: Consequences of Soft Budget Constraints” (with Thomas Stratmann). Kyklos64(3) 2011: 366-395.

“Under What Conditions May Social Contracts Arise? Evidence from the Hanseatic League.” Constitutional Political Economy 22(2) 2011: 173-190.

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3/7 Comments, Shorter Papers, Book Reviews

“Governance without a State? Policies and Politics in areas of Limited Statehood meets Positive Political Economy of Anarchy: A Review Essay.” The Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.

“Institutions First.” (with Peter J. Boettke). Journal of Institutional Economics 7(4) 2011: 499-504.

Book Chapters

“Agent Type, Social Contract, and Constitutional Mythologies.” (with Peter J. Boettke). In: Alain Marciano (ed.) Constitutional Mythologies. New York: Springer, 2011: 25-37. Awards and Fellowships

ORDO-Preis für ordnungspolitische Innovationen 2014

International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) Fellow 2012 Mercatus Center Dissertation Fellow 2010-2011

Mercatus Center Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship 2007 - 2010 Mercatus Center Ph.D. Fellow 2007-2010

Ciocca Fellow 2007-2008

ERASMUS-Stipend for the Graduate Studies at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I, Fall 2005

Stipend given by the University of St. Gallen for Graduate Studies at the Claremont Graduate University, Spring 2004

Invited Academic Talks

2013: The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm

2012: University of Bremen; University of Economics, Prague; University of Freiburg 2011: University of Leipzig

Presentations at Conferences 2015

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“Taxes, timing of marriage, and the probability of divorce.” Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Groningen, April.

2014

“Meanings of Rationality in Economics.” Money, Crisis & Banking - An Austrian Economics Perspective, Witten/Herdecke University and Friedrich A. von Hayek-Gesellschaft, December

“Does marrying for love and money increase the probability of divorce?” Interdisciplinary Workshop Institutional Economics, Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg, November.

“When Do Rulers Delegate Powers? The Independence of Medieval European Cities.” Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics, Aix-en-Provence, September.

2012

“Enterprise-based Public Management and Property Rights in the Public Sphere.”

Conference ‘Converging and Conflicting Trends in the Public Administration of the US, Europe, and Germany’ organized by the German Research Institute for Public

Administration Speyer and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs of Indiana University (invited), Speyer, Germany, July.

2011

“When Do Rulers Delegate Powers? The Independence of Medieval European Cities.” Association for Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, Nassau, Bahamas, April “The Hanseatic League and Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions.” Association for Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, Nassau, Bahamas, April

“When Do Rulers Delegate Powers? The Independence of Medieval European Cities.” Public Choice Society Meetings, San Antonio, TX, March.

“When Do Rulers Delegate Powers? The Independence of Medieval European Cities.” Eastern Economics Association Meetings, New York, NY, February.

2010

“The Political Coase Theorem and Autonomous Jurisdictions: Evidence from Medieval Hanseatic Cities.” Southern Economics Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA, November “The Political Coase Theorem and Autonomous Jurisdictions: Evidence from Medieval Hanseatic Cities.” The Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April

“Special Districts and the Theory of Political Enterprise.” (with Dr. Richard E. Wagner), Public Choice Society Meetings, Monterey, CA, March

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“The Political Coase Theorem and Autonomous Jurisdictions: Evidence from Medieval Hanseatic Cities.” Eastern Economics Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA, February 2009

“Under What Conditions May a Social Contract Arise?” Southern Economics Association Meetings, San Antonio, TX, November

“Autonomy and City Institutions - the Rise of the Hanseatic Cities.” European School on New Institutional Economics, Cargèse, France, May

“Autonomy and City Institutions - the Rise of the Hanseatic Cities.” Public Choice Society Meetings, Las Vegas, NV, March

2008

“Transfers by Formula or Voting Power? The Case of Intergovernmental Transfers in Germany.” (with Thomas Stratmann). Student paper workshop at Clemson University (invited), Clemson, NC, October

“Autonomy and City Institutions - the Rise of the Hanseatic Cities.” The Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April

Seminars and Conferences attended (no presentation) 2015

January Conference “Legitimation wirtschaftlicher Ordnungen: interdisziplinäre Perspektiven” Organized by Walter Eucken Institut and Wilhelm- Röpke-Institut, Schloss Ettersburg (Weimar)

2012

September Mont Pelerin Society General Meeting (Discussant), Prague, Czech Republic

August Liberty Fund Conference “Financial Regulation, Economic Freedom, and Liberty”, Aix-en-Provence, France

2011

December Conference organized by the University of Erfurt “Perspektiven einer Neuen Ordnungsökonomik,” Schloss Ettersburg (Weimar)

September The Group for Research into Organisational Evolution (GROE) Workshop: “Evolutionary Thinking and Its Policy Implications for Modern Capitalism,” Hertfordshire

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April IHS/Liberty Fund conference: “Hayek and Keynes on Human Nature and Liberty,” Arlington, VA

2010

June University of Chicago Price Theory Summer Camp at the Becker Center

2009

May European School on New Institutional Economics, Cargèse, France 2008

September From Vienna to Virginia Conference, Foundation of Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY

June Social Change Workshop, Institute of Humane Studies, Providence, RI

Other Invited Talks

2015: Hayek-Tage der Friedrich A. von Hayek-Gesellschaft, Leipzig 2014: Hayek-Club Erfurt; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Gummersbach;

Freiheitskongress (NovoArgumente), Berlin; Webinar European Students for Liberty; Hayek Club Hamburg, Arbeitskreis Wiso der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Gummersbach; Hayek-Club Zwickau 2013: European Resource Bank, Vienna; Zwickauer Forum für

Betriebswirtschaft; Liberales Institut, Berlin; Hayek-Club Berlin, Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Bratislava; Rothbard Institute, Ghent; Hayek-Club Dresden; Freiheitsfreunde Leipzig

2012: Liberalni Institut, Prague Teaching Experience

At the University of Leipzig

Summer 2012-2015 Lecture: Financial Markets and Financial Crises (3 sections) Winter 2011 - 2015 Lecture: Introduction to Economics (3 sections)

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Winter 2014/15 - 2015/16 Seminar: Simulation MACRO At George Mason University

Summer 2010 Economies in Transition (undergraduate)

Spring 2010 Economics of Developing Areas (undergraduate) Refereeing

European Journal of Political Economy (7), Public Choice (5), The Review of Austrian Economics (2), Ecological Economics, Economic Development Quarterly, European Journal of Political Research, Forum for Social Economics, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Private Enterprise, Law and Contemporary Problems, The Independent Review, Southern Economic Journal, The Journal of Developing Areas, West European Politics Languages

German: Native speaker

English: Near-native speaker, reader, and writer French: Fluent speaker, reader, and writer

Academic References

Peter J. Boettke (Dissertation Advisor) George Mason University

Department of Economics 4400 University Drive, MS 3G4 22030 Fairfax, VA

Email: pboettke@gmu.edu

Peter T. Leeson

George Mason University Department of Economics 4400 University Drive, MS 3G4 22030 Fairfax, VA

Email: pleeson@gmu.edu Thomas Stratmann

George Mason University Department of Economics 4400 University Drive, MS 1D3 22030 Fairfax, VA

Email: tstratma@gmu.edu

Richard E. Wagner George Mason University Department of Economics 4400 University Drive, MS 3G4 22030 Fairfax, VA

Email: rwagner@gmu.edu Updated: January 2016

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