Carsten Eckel
(April 2009)
Main Areas of Research and Teaching
International Economics Industrial Organization
Open-economy Macroeconomics
Education
Venia Legendi: Economics, University of Göttingen, 2006.
Post-Doc: Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen, Norway, 2000-2001.
Ph.D.: Economics, University of Passau, Germany, 2000.
Dissertation (International Economics): Globalization and the Division of Labor (in German), Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rübel.
Diploma (~Masters): Economics, University of Passau, Germany, 1996.
Thesis (Economic Theory): Human Capital Accumulation as a Source of Endogenous Growth (in German).
Professional Experience
PROFESSOR: Department of Economics, University of Bamberg, 2007-present
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: Department of Economics, University of Göttingen, 2003-2007. LECTURER: Department of Economics & BA, University of Passau, 2003-2004.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: Department of Economics & BA, University of Passau, 2000-2003.
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW: Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen, Norway, 2000-2001. RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSOCIATE: Department of Economics & BA, University
of Passau, 1996-2000.
Grants, Awards and Prizes
Research Grant (Sachbeihilfe), German Science Foundation (DFG), 2008-2010. Research Grant (Sachbeihilfe), German Science Foundation (DFG), 2006-2011. E·on Dissertation Prize, E·on & University of Passau, 2002.
Young Economist Competition, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (E.A.R.I.E.), 2001.
Training of Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Fellowship, European Commission, 2000-2001. International Conference Award, German Economic Association, 1998, 2000, 2002.
Various Project Grants (Dr. Hans Kapfinger Foundation, 2002; Institute for Research in Economics & BA (SNF), 2002; Research Council of Norway, 2001; Universitätsbund Göttingen, 2004)
Conference Travel Grants (European Science Foundation, 2001; German Science Foundation (DFG), 2001, 2004)
Journal Articles
"Multi-product Firms and Flexible Manufacturing in the Global Economy" (with J. Peter Neary), Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
"Tax Competition for Heterogeneous Firms with Endogenous Entry" (with Ronald B. Davies), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.
"Endogenous Sunk Costs, Flexible Manufacturing, and the Productivity Effects of International Trade", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
"Wage Bargaining and Multinational Firms" (with Hartmut Egger), Journal of International Economics, 77 (2), 2009, 206-214.
"Globalization and Specialization", Journal of International Economics, 75 (1), 2008, 219-228.
"Policy competition for foreign direct investment between asymmetric countries" (with Kjetil Bjorvatn), European Economic Review, 50 (7), 2006, 1891-1907.
"Trade and Diversity: Is There a Case For Cultural Protectionism?", German Economic Review, 7 (4), 2006, 403-418.
"Technology Sourcing and Strategic Foreign Direct Investment" (with Kjetil Bjorvatn),
Review of International Economics, 14 (4), 2006, 600-614.
"Welfare Effects of Capital Mobility with Rigid Wages, Comment: Outsourcing in a
MacDougall-Kemp Framework", Applied Economics Quarterly, 51 (Supplement), 2005, 77-81.
"Market Integration and Market Concentration in Horizontally Differentiated Industries",
Economics Bulletin, 6 (16), 2005, 1-6.
"Labor Market Adjustments to Globalization: Unemployment versus Relative Wages", North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 14(2), 2003, 173-188.
"Fragmentation, Efficiency-seeking FDI, and Employment", Review of International Economics, 11(2), 2003, 317-331.
Working Papers
A list of current working papers is available on my web page:
http://www.uni-bamberg.de/sowi/eckel
My work is also listed with RePEc:
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pec12.html
Books
Außenhandel und Technologie: Endogene Sunk Costs im Allgemeinen Gleichgewicht
(International Trade and Technology: Endogenous Sunk Costs in General Equilibrium), Wiesbaden: DUV, 2007.
Verteilungswirkungen der Globalisierung. Folgen für den Arbeitsmarkt (Globalization and the Distribution of Income. Consequences for the Labor Market), Wiesbaden: DUV, 2000.
Book Chapters
"Der Wettbewerb um Direktinvestitionen aus ökonomischer Sicht" (Competition for Foreign Direct Investment from an Economic Viewpoint), in: Arthur Steinmann, Focke Höhne und Peter-Tobias Stoll (eds.): Die WTO vor neuen Herausforderungen, Stuttgart et al.: Boorberg, 2005, 113-116.
"Endogenous Sunk Costs and Multinational Enterprises" (with Gerhard Rübel), in: Gerhard Rübel und Makram El-Shagi (eds.): Aspects of International Economics, Wiesbaden: DUV, 2005, 187-195.
"Technological Spillovers and Export Platform FDI" (with Kjetil Bjorvatn), in: Edward Graham (ed.): Multinationals and Foreign Investment in Economic Development, IEA/Palgrave-Macmillan Series, Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 85-93.
"International Production and Domestic Labor Demand", in: Gerhard Rübel (ed.): Real and Monetary Issues of International Economic Integration, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2000, 51-64.
"Beschäftigungseffekte von Produktionsverlagerungen" (Employment Effects of Production Relocations), in: Michael H. Stierle (ed.): Globalisation: Effects on Enterprises, Employment and Government (INFER Research Edition; Vol. 1), Berlin: VWF, 1999, 101-110.
Other Publications
"Ohlin, B.G.: Interregional and International Trade, 1933", in: Herz, Dietmar; Weinberger, Veronika (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Works in Economics, Düsseldorf: Schäffer-Poeschel, 2006, 373-374.
"Erhöhen internationale Produktionsverlagerungen die Arbeitslosigkeit?" (Do International Relocations of Production Increase Unemployment?), CeGE-Report, February 2006, 2. "Eine Analyse des staatlichen Wettbewerbs um ausländische Investitionsprojekte" (An
Analysis of Policy Competition for Foreign Investment Projects), CeGE-Report, June 2005, 3.
"Subventionen versus Standortvorteile: Wer 'gewinnt' den staatlichen Wettbewerb um Direktinvestitionen?" (Subsidies versus Locational Advantages: Who wins the Policy Competition for FDI?), in: Hanns Martin Schleyer Stiftung, X. Kongress "Junge Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft", 2005, 60-61.
"Braunerhjelm et al.: Integration and the Regions of Europe" (Book Review), Review of International Economics, 11(3), 2003, 574-575.
"Globalisierung und Wettbewerb: Welche Rolle spielt R&D?" (Globalization and Competition: The Role of R&D), in: Hanns Martin Schleyer Stiftung, Ehlerding Stiftung, IX. Kongress "Junge Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft", 2001, 44-45. Die wirtschaftliche Lage Russlands, Fortsetzung des Niedergangs ohne hinreichenden
Strukturwandel (The Economic State of Russia: Continued Downfall without Sufficient Structural Change), 5th Report, DIW, IfW, IWH, 1994 (with C. Buch et al.).
Conference Presentations
Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (E.A.R.I.E.), 2001, 2002
Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group (ETSG), 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Annual Conference of the German Economic Association (VfS), 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007
Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007
Annual Meeting of the VfS International Economics Research Committee, 2007, 2008
European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), 2007
Midwest International Economics Meetings, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004
Nordic Conference on Development Economics, CMI Bergen, 2002
Southeast Economic Theory and International Economics Conference, 1998, 1999
Spring Meeting of Young Economists, 1998
Workshop "International Economics" (Göttingen/Passau), 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Invited Presentations
Annual Meeting of the VfS Regional Science Committee, 2008
Workshop "Locations, Regions and Global Competition", Christian-August-Society, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, 2006
NBER International Trade and Investment Program Meeting, National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2005
Workshop "Internationalization and Firm Behavior", University of Tübingen/IAW & LMU Munich, 2005.
BA "Festival of Science", British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA):
Economics Section Presidential Session "Firms and Markets: From Local to Global", Trinity College Dublin, 2005.
Symposium "International Economics", Eltville, 2005
Kiel Summer Workshop on Trade and Location, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, 2005
68th ARGE Conference "Can Germany Sustain Locational Competition?, ARGE/CEPII,
Berlin, 2005
Graduate Meetings in International Economic Law, University of Göttingen, 2004.
Workshop "Outsourcing and the Labour Market", University of Innsbruck, 2003
GEP Conference on "Trade and Labour Perspectives on Worker Turnover", Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, 2003
Conference on Competition, Contracts and International Trade, Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, 2003
CEPR/CREI Workshop "Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation", Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2001
Kiel Workshop "Multinational Enterprises, Economic Development and Policies", Kiel Institute of World Economics, 1999
Annual Conference of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER), Speyer, 1999
Department Seminars
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (January 2000, October 2000, March 2001, May 2002), RWTH Aachen (May 2006), Augsburg (December 2007), Bamberg
(December 2002), Bergen (January 2001), Bochum (May 2008), UC Dublin (November 2003, January 2005, November 2008), Göttingen (November 2003), Hamburg & HWWA (January 2006), Innsbruck (November 2002), Kassel (July 2002), Kiel (June 2007) Konstanz (October 2005) Münster (June 2002), Nottingham (February 2009), Osnabrück (December 1999),
Oxford (February 2008), Passau (July 1997, February 1999), Regensburg (May 2008),
Tübingen (January 2006), WIIW Vienna (April 2006), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (February 2005).
Research Visits
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen (Norway): 2000-2001, May 2002, February 2007
University College Dublin (Ireland): November 2003, February 2005, November 2005 University of Zürich (Switzerland): October 2004, January 2006
Professional Activities
• Referee for Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, European Economic Review, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, Homo Oeconomicus, International Economics and Economic Policy, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik/Journal of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of the Japanese & International Economies, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Public Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Development Economics, Review of International Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
• Initiated the Göttingen Workshop "International Economics" (originally in Passau) in 1999 together with Gerhard Rübel. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers in the area of international economics and promoting the exchange of ideas. Young
researchers are especially encouraged to participate. The workshop takes place once a year. Workshop home page:
http://workshop-iwb.uni-goettingen.de/
Teaching Experience
Advanced International Trade (in German/English), Master Level Advanced Macroeconomics (in German/English), Master Level Development Economics (in German), Master Level
Industrial Organization (in German), Master Level International Economics (in German), Bachelor Level Macroeconomics (in German), Bachelor Level
Microeconomics (in German), Bachelor Level Monetary Economics (in German), Master Level
Open-Economy Macroeconomics (in German), Master Level Principles of Economics (in English), Bachelor Level
Spatial Economics (in English), Master/ Ph.D. Level
Theory of Multinational Enterprises (in German), Master Level
University Service
Member of Department Board
Department of Economic & Social Studies, University of Bamberg, 2007-present. Department of Economics & BA, University of Passau, 1998-2003 (3 terms).
Speaker of the Department of Economics (Fachgruppensprecher), Department of Economic & Social Studies, University of Bamberg, 2008-present.
Member of the Organizational Committee of "Incentives – Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics" (BGPE), 2008-present.
Member of Graduate Committee, Department of Economics & BA, University of Passau, 2002-2003.
Member of Standing Committee "University Budget and Financial Planning", University of Passau, 2002-2003.
Member of the University Assembly, University of Passau, 2000.
Helped establish an Economics Curriculum in English at the University of Applied Sciences in Deggendorf, 1998-1999.