Ameritech Research Scholar
Institute for Development Strategies
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. |
 | "R&D
Investment, Liquidity Constraints, and Corporate Governance"
(with
Alfred Haid).
Jahrbuecher fuer
Nationaloekonomie und Statistik, 221,
2001, 145-167.
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For
more information see web:
http://www.whu.edu/mikro/
Little Known Facts About Juergen:
 | He is a soccer aficionado. |
 | He has written travel guides about Spain, including Madrid, Castilla, and
Andalucia. Now he's travelling the world
for the WHU. |
 | He loves to ski but rarely finds time to
do so. |
 | Unlike David, Juergen hates doughnuts. |
 | He gets sea-sick while watching the ocean on television. |
 | He is almost "ein Berliner" (but not a doughnut). |
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