Vita Dr. Achim Wambach

Achim Wambach
Curriculum Vitae
Address
University of Cologne
Department of Economics
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)221 470 4433
Email: [email protected]
Homepage: http://wambach.uni-koeln.de
Current and previous positions
Since 10.2005
Professor of Economics, University of Cologne, Germany
2001–2005
Professor of Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
1995–2001
Assistant Professor, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
Education
2000
Habilitation in Economics, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
1995
M.Sc. in Economics, London School of Economics, Great Britain
1994
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Oxford, Great Britain
1990
Vordiplom in Mathematics and Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
Honours and grants
2009
Albertus Magnus Prize for teaching excellence at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, Cologne
2007
Prize in Health Economics of the German Economic Association
2006
Best Paper Award of the II International Public Procurement Conference, Rome
2006
Best Teacher Award, MBA Class 2004–2006, Nuremberg
2001
Ernst Meyer Prize of the Geneva Association
1999
Teaching Award of the Department of Economics, Munich
1995
Ely Devons Prize for the best exam in the MSc course at the London School of
Economics
1991–1994
Scholar of the German Academic Exchange Program
1990–1994
Scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation
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Professional Activities
Offices/Advisory Boards
since 2014
Member of the Monopolies Commission
since 2012
Chairman of the academic advisory board at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
and Energy
since 2012
Director of the European Center for the Liberal Professions, University of Cologne
since 2012
Chairman of the academic advisory board of the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition
Economics (DICE)
since 2010
Member of the academic advisory board of the Institute for Energy Economics (EWI)
at the University of Cologne
since 2009
Director of the Institute for Economic Policy (iwp) at the University of Cologne
since 2006
Member of the academic advisory board at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
and Energy
since 2001
Cofounder and Partner of TWS Partners AG, an economics consultancy specializing
in auctions and negotiations, Munich
2012–2013
Spokesperson of the Department of Economics, University of Cologne
2009–2012
Vice-Dean for Research and Young Academics of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
2008–2012
Member of the Senate Committee for Collaborative Research Centres of the German
Research Association (DFG)
2007–2008
President of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE)
2006–2009
Faculty Appointee for Research of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social
Sciences, University of Cologne
2002–2005
Spokesperson of the Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics
Further academic activities
since 2000
Member of several committees of the German Economic Association (2000: Ausschuss
für Industrieökonomik, 2001: Gesundheitsökonomischer Ausschuss, 2005: Ausschuss
für Unternehmenstheorie)
since 1999
CESifo Research Affiliate
since 2009
Co-editor of the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review
2005–2012
Co-editor of Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
2001–2008
Associate editor of the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (until 2007: Geneva Papers
on Risk and Insurance Theory)
2005, 2010
Member of the organizing committee of the 1. and 2. World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress, Salt Lake City, Singapore
1997–2000
Member of the organizing committee of the Spring Meeting of Young Economists,
Munich (1997, local organizer), Berlin (1998), Amsterdam (1999), Oxford (2000)
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Referee for
American Economic Review, Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, Australian Economic Papers, Canadian Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economics Bulletin,
European Economic Review, European Journal of Health Economics, FinanzArchiv, Games and Economic Behavior, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, German
Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Journal für Betriebswirtschaft, Journal of
Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory,
Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Journal of the European Economic Association,
Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Strategic Information
Systems, Management Science, Mathematical Social Science, Rand Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Managerial Sciences, Schmollers Jahrbuch,
The Journal of Risk and Insurance, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
Publications
Publications in refereed journals
• Sequential information disclosure in auctions (with Dirk Bergemann), Journal of Economic Theory
forthcoming
• New developments in the theory of adverse selection in competitive insurance (with Wanda Mimra),
The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 39, 136-152 (2014)
• Information acquisition during a descending auction (with Vitali Gretschko), Economic Theory 55,
731-751 (2014)
• On the strictly descending multi-unit auction (with Vitali Gretschko und Alexander Rasch), Journal
of Mathematical Economics 50, 79-85 (2014)
• Investment coordination in network industries: The case of electricity grid and electricity generation
(with Felix Höffler), Journal of Regulatory Economics 44, 287-307 (2013)
• The fog of fraud - mititigating fraud by strategic ambiguity (with Matthias Lang), Games and
Economic Behavior 81, 255-275 (2013)
• DFG-Förderung in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Fakten und Mythen zur Förderpraxis (Funding
for Economic Research by the German Research Association: Facts and Myths) (with Christine
Joerk), Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 14, 99-117 (2013)
• Bargaining and inequity aversion: On the efficiency of the double auction, (with Alexander Rasch
and Kristina Wiener), Economics Letters 114, 178-182 (2012)
• Surety bonds with fair and unfair pricing, (with Andreas Engel), The Geneva Risk and Insurance
Review 36, 36-50 (2011)
• Survival at the center - the stability of minimum differentiation (with Burkhard Hehenkamp),
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation 76, 853-858 (2010)
• Contracts and inequity aversion (with Florian Englmaier), Games and Economic Behavior 69, 312328 (2010)
• How to subcontract?, Economics Letters 105, 152-155 (2009)
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• Internal decision making rules and collusion (with Alexander Rasch), Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization 72, 703-715 (2009)
• On the role of patience in an insurance market (with Michael Sonnenholzner), Journal of Risk and
Insurance 76, 323-341 (2009)
• Auctions to implement the efficient market structure (with Georg Gebhardt), International Journal
of Industrial Organization 26, 846-859 (2008)
• Engpassmanagement im deutschen Stromübertragungsnetz (Congestion management in the German electricity transmission network) (with Roman Inderst), Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft, 333342 (2007)
• The treadmill effect in a fixed budget system (with Franz Benstetter), Journal of Health Economics
25, 146-169 (2006)
• Public procurement under limited liability (with Andreas Engel), Revista di Politica Economica,
13-40 (2006)
• Insurance in a market for credence goods (with Kai Sülzle), The Journal of Risk and Insurance 72,
159-176 (2005)
• Incentive effects in the demand for health care: A bivariate panel count data estimation (with Regina
T. Riphahn and Andreas Million), Journal of Applied Econometrics 18, 387-405 (2003)
• Versicherungsbetrug aus vertragstheoretischer Sicht (Insurance fraud from the perspective of contract theory) (with Andreas Knaus), Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft 92, 9-34
(2003)
• An evolutionary analysis of insurance markets under adverse selection (with Ana B. Ania and
Thomas Tröger), Games and Economic Behavior 40, 153-182 (2002)
• A simple result for the revenue in share auctions, Economic Letters 75, 405-408 (2002)
• Capacity constrained firms in (labor) markets with adverse selection (with Roman Inderst), Economic Theory 19, 525-548 (2002)
• Competitive insurance markets under adverse selection and capacity constraints (with Roman Inderst), European Economic Review 45, 1981-1992 (2001)
• On social transfers and income taxation, Journal of Public Economic Theory 3, 295-307 (2001)
• Introducing heterogeneity in the Rothschild-Stiglitz model, The Journal of Risk and Insurance 67,
579-592 (2000)
• Adverse selection and categorical discrimination in health insurance markets: The effects of genetic
testing (with Rainer Strohmenger), Journal of Health Economics 19, 197-218 (2000)
• Payback criterion, hurdle rates and the gain of waiting, International Review of Financial Analysis
9, 247-258 (2000)
• Rückversicherung und alternative Risikotransfers: Ein theoretischer Vergleich (Reinsurance and
alternative risk transfers: A theoretical comparison) (with Rüdiger Reißaus), Zeitschrift für die
gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft 4, 635-655 (2000)
• Wealth effects in the principal agent model (with Henrik Thiele), Journal of Economic Theory 89,
247-260 (1999)
• Bertrand competition under cost uncertainty, International Journal of Industrial Organization 17,
941-951 (1999)
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• Regulation of insurance markets (with Ray Rees and Hugh Gravelle), The Geneva Papers on Risk
and Insurance Theory 24, 55-68 (1999)
• Gentests und ihre Auswirkungen auf Versicherungsmärkte (Genetic testing and its implications for
insurance markets) (with Rainer Strohmenger), Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 1, 121-149 (1999)
Policy Reports (selection)
• The State of Liberal Professions Concerning their Functions and Relevance to European Civil Society; Studie des Europäischen Zentrums für Freie Berufe im Auftrag des Europäischen Wirtschaftsund Sozialausschuss (EWSA) der Europäischen Union (2013)
• Langfristige Steuerung der Versorgungssicherheit im Stromsektor (Reliability in the electricity sector); Mitglied der Vorbereitungsgruppe des Gutachtens des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (2013)
• Wege zu einer wirksamen Klimapolitik (Paths to an effective climate policy); Federführung des
Gutachtens des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie
(2012)
• Untersuchungen zu einem zukunftsfähigen Strommarktdesign (Investigation towards a sustainable
energy market design); Mitarbeit beim Gutachten des EWI im Auftrag des Bundesministerium für
Wirtschaft und Technologie (2012)
• Zur Reform der Finanzierung der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (On the reform of the funding of the public health insurance system); Mitglied der Vorbereitungsgruppe des Gutachtens des
Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (2010)
• Öffentliches Beschaffungswesen (Public procurement); Federführung des Gutachtens des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (2007)
Further publications (selection)
• Menschen und Märkte: Die Ökonomik als Ingenieurwissenschaft (with Axel Ockenfels), Orientierungen zur Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik 134, 55-60 (2012); reprinted as ”Men and Markets:
Economics as Engineering Science” in Journal of European Economy 12, 107-116 (2013)
• Spectrum Aggregation Limits in Auctions with Spectrum below 1 GHz: the European Experience
(with Vitali Gretschko and Stephan Knapek), prepared for T-Mobile USA, Inc. (2013)
• The Microeconomics of Insurance (with Ray Rees), Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics:
Vol. 4: No 1-2, 1-163 (2008)
• Managing Risky Bids (with Andreas R. Engel, Juan-José Ganuza and Esther Hauk), in Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga, Giancarlo Spagnolo (Eds.): Handbook of Procurement, Cambridge University
Press, 332-344 (2006)
• Oligopoly in insurance markets (with Michael Sonnenholzner), Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science,
John Wiley & Sons (2004)
• Moral hazard (with Michael Sonnenholzner), Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science, John Wiley & Sons
(2004)
• Heavy quark S- to P-wave transitions in a consistent quark model, Nuclear Physics B434, 647-661
(1995)
• Flavour dependence of form factors in heavy meson decays (with Frank E. Close), Physics Letters
B348, 207-212 (1995)
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• Quark models form factors for heavy quark effective theory (with Frank E. Close), Nuclear Physics
B412, 169-180 (1994)
• About the Bethe-Salpeter formalism in the heavy mass limit, Zeitschrift für Physik C63, 569-574
(1994)
Cologne
October 27, 2014
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