Dr. Florian Wackermann

• Licence Management et Gestion des Entreprises, spécialité Economie d'Entreprise, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

• Master of Arts in Economics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

• Master Sciences Juridiques, Politiques, Économiques et de Gestion, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

• Diplom-Volkswirt, Universität Augsburg, Germany

• Dr. rer. pol., Universität Augsburg, Germany

Resume

Florian Wackermann was born in 1982 and studied "French-German Management" at the universities of Augsburg and Rennes (France) in a program supported by the French-German University. In this context, he spent three semesters at the Université de Rennes 1 and worked as an intern both in France and Germany. Furthermore, he successfully finished a Masters Degree at the Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in 2006 and was awarded a Master of Arts in Economics. During that time, he also worked at the Business School at Wayne State University in the field of Business Strategy. Mr. Wackermann wrote his doctoral thesis in the field of Economics of Innovation about "Individual Risk and Innovative Behavior - A Neo-Schumpeterian Agent-Based Analysis".
Since January 2007 he is working as a research associate at the chair of Volksirtschaftslehre V (Economics V) of Prof. Hanusch and works on issues concerning Economics of Innovation and Public Sector Management. Furthemore, he serves as coordinator for students, who are interested in participating in the study abroad program with Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.

Publications

• Riedl A., F. Wackermann (2010), How to Spend Public Money Efficiently: A Cost-Effectiveness Model Illustrated Using the EU’s “Youth”-Program, in: Transition Studies Review, Volume 17, Apr. 2010, Number 1, May 2010, pp. 123-133, doi: 10.1007/s11300-010-0129-3
• Hanusch H., A. Pyka, F. Wackermann (2009), A Neo-Schumpeterian Approach towards Public Sector Economics, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Augsburg, Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe, #306, Sep. 2009, Abstract ; PDF
• Hanusch H., F. Wackermann (2009), Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Lessons - A Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Augsburg, Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe, #303, Feb. 2009, Abstract ; PDF
• Hanusch H., A. Riedl, F. Wackermann (2008), Measuring the efficiency of EU funds - The 'Youth' programme in Germany as an example, in: Society and Economy, Volume 30, Number 2, Dec. 2008, pp. 323-338

Conference participation

• 13th Conference of the International Schumpeter Society in Aalborg, 21st-24th June, 2010: Hanusch, H., F. Wackermann: "Can social insurance spur innovation? A Neo-Schumpeterian analysis of an agent-based model on social insurance and innovation"