Juergen Weigand
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Ameritech Research Scholar 
Institute for Development Strategies 

email: jweigand@indiana.edu  

DV 1990; PhD 1994 
U. of Erlangen-Nuernberg

Dr Weigand is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Industrial Organization at the Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, WHU Koblenz, Germany. He is also the Associate Dean for International Programs. From August 1998 till July 1999 he was a visiting research scholar at the Institute for Development Strategies. He spent six years (1992-98) as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg (Germany) and one year (1999/2000) as senior researcher at the Centraal Plan Bureau CPB (The Netherlands Institute for Economic Policy Analysis) in The Hague. He has been a visiting researcher at Georgia State University, Atlanta, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington D.C. He serves as an adviser to the CPB. His research interest involves industrial organization, corporate governance and corporate finance, empirical economics.

 Recent publications:

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"Does the Governed Corporation Perform Better? Governance Structures and the Market for Corporate Control in Germany" (with Erik Lehmann). European Finance Review, 4, 2000, 157-195.

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"Market Size, Fixed Costs and Horizontal Concentration" (with Manfred Neumann, Alexandra Gross, and Markus Münter). International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2001, 19, 275-287.

bullet"R&D Investment, Liquidity Constraints, and Corporate Governance" (with Alfred Haid). Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik, 221, 2001, 145-167.

 For more information see web: http://www.whu.edu/mikro/ 

Little Known Facts About Juergen:
bulletHe is a soccer aficionado.
bulletHe has written travel guides about Spain, including Madrid, Castilla, and Andalucia. Now he's travelling the world for the WHU.
bulletHe loves to ski but rarely finds time to do so.
bulletUnlike David, Juergen hates doughnuts.
bulletHe gets sea-sick while watching the ocean on television.
bulletHe is almost "ein Berliner" (but not a doughnut).