Prof. Dr. Alfred Maußner

Room: FW 2420
Phone: +49 (0)821 598 4187
Email: alfred.maussner@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de
Office Ours: Please contact Mrs Bredow

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1981: Diplom-Volkswirt: University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
1984: Dr. rer. pol. (Ph D in Economics): University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
1990: Habilitation: University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Positions

1992: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Cologne
1996: Professor of Economics and Head of Chair of Economic Policy, University of Bamberg
2000: Professor of Economics and Head of Chair of Economics I, University of Augsburg

Research

Economic Growth and Fluctuations
Price Rigidities and Non-Neutrality of Money
Dynamic General Equilibrium Models: Computational Techniques

Working Papers

Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Asset Returns, the Business Cycle, and the Labor Market, forthcoming in German Economic Review
Heer, Burkhard, Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner, Asset Pricing Implications of a New Keynesian Model: A Note, CESIfo Working Paper No. 4041, December 2012
Heiberger, Christopher, Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner, System Reduction and the Accuracy of Solutions of DSGE Models: A Note, Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Beitrag Nr. 320, 2012
Heiberger, Christopher, Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner, A Note on the Uniqueness of Solutions to Rational Expectations Models, Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Beitrag Nr. 319, 2012
Heer, Burkhard, Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner, Asset Pricing Implications of a New Keynesian Model: A Comment, February 2012
Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Log-Normal Approximation of the Equity Premium in the Production Model, Applied Economics Letters (forthcoming), 2012
Fortran program
Alfred Maußner, The Analytics of New Keynesian Phillips Curves, Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Beitrag Nr. 313, 2010
Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Projection methods and the curse of dimensionality, September 2004
non-linear equations solver

Selected Publications

Textbooks

Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Dynamic General Equilibrium Modelling, Computational Methods and Applications, 2nd Edition, Springer: Berlin 2008
Computer programs associated with this book
Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Dynamic General Equilibrium Modelling, Computational Methods and Applications, 1st Edition, Springer: Berlin 2005
Computer programs associated with this book
Maußner, Alfred and Joachim Klaus, Grundzüge der mikro- und makroökonomischen Theorie, 2. Aufl. Vahlen: München 1997 (1. Aufl. 1986)
Maußner, Alfred and Rainer Klump, Wachstumstheorie, Springer: Berlin 1996
Maußner, Alfred, Konjunkturtheorie, Springer: Berlin 1994

Articles

Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, The Cash-In-Advance Constraint in Monetary Growth Models with Labor Market Search, April 2013, forthcoming in Macroeconomic Dynamics
Antony, Jürgen and Alfred Maußner, A Note on an Extension of a Class of Solutions to Dynamic Programming Problems Arising in Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 16, 2012, pp. 472-476
Antony, Jürgen, Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner, Firm Heterogeneity, Credit Constraints, and Endogenous Growth, Journal of Economics,(DOI 10.1007/s00712-011-0225-9), Vol. 105, No. 3, April 2012, pp. 199-224
Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, The Burden of Unanticipated Inflation: Analysis of an Overlapping-Generations Model with Progressive Income Taxation and Staggered Prices, Macroeconomic Dynamics, (DOI 10.1017/S1365100510000490), Vol. 16, No. 2, 2012, pp. 278-308
Gauss program
Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Value Function Iteration as a Solution Method for the Ramsey Model, Journal of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 231/4, 2011, pp. 494-515,
previously published as CESIfo Working Paper No. 2278
Gauss program
Heer, Burkhard, Alfred Maußner and Paul D. McNelis, The Money-Age Distribution: Empirical Facts and the Limits of Three Monetary Models, Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 33, March 2011, pp. 390-405
Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Inflation and Output Dynamics in a Model with Labor Market Search and Capital Accumulation, Review of Economic Dynamics, 13, 2010, pp. 654-686
Gauss program
Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Computation of Business-Cycle Models with the Generalized Schur Method,
Indian Growth and Development Review, Vol. 2, 2009, pp. 173-182
Gauss program
also available as CESIfo Working Paper No. 2873, December 2009
Heer, Burkhard and Alfred Maußner, Computation of Business Cycle Models: A Comparison of Numerical Methods, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12, 2008, pp. 641-663
Maußner, Alfred and Julius Spatz, Determinants of Business Cycles in Small Scale Macroeconomic Models: The German Case, Empirical Economics, Vol. 31, 2006, pp. 921-950
Maußner, Alfred, Endogenous Growth with Nominal Frictions, Journal of Economics, 83, 2004, pp. 1-46
Maußner, Alfred, Adjustment Costs and Nominal Rigidities in a Small Open Economy, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 222, 2002, pp. 463-489
Maußner, Alfred, Unvollkommene Gütermärkte, Konjunktur und Wachstum, in: Wolfgang Franz u.a. (Hrsg.), Trend und Zyklus, Zyklisches Wachstum aus der Sicht moderner Konjunktur- und Wachstumstheorie, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 1999, pp. 121-151
Maußner, Alfred, Nominallohnkontrakte und die Beschäftigungseffekte der Geld- und Fiskalpolitik, in: Alfred Maußner und Klaus-Georg Binder (Hrsg.), Ökonomie und Ökologie, Abhandlungen zur Nationalökonomie, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin: 1999, pp. 297-318
Maußner Alfred, Wage Gaps in Textbooks Models: Do they Account for the German Unemployment Experience?, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Vol. 50, 1999, pp. 156-177
Maußner, Alfred and Markus Küppers, Partisan Profiles in Presidential Policies: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence Reconsidered, in: Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 20, 1998, pp. 387-395
Maußner, Alfred, Learning to Believe in Nonrational Expectations That Support Pareto- superior Outcomes, in: Journal of Economics, Vol. 65, 1997, pp. 235-256
Maußner, Alfred, Monopolistic Price Setting, Subjective Demand, and the Business Cycle, in: William A. Barnett, Giancarlo Gandolfo, and Claude Hillinger (Eds.), Dynamic Disequilibrium Modelling, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, MA. 1996, pp. 263-281
Maußner, Alfred and Ludger Linnemann, Zur Messung der konjunkturellen Sensitivität regionaler Arbeitsmärkte, in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Vol. 215, 1996, pp. 446-488
Maußner, Alfred, Wage Flexibility, Menu Costs, and Price Level Stickyness, in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 150, 1994, pp. 670-692
Maußner, Alfred, Inflexible Preise als Ergebnis von Gewinnmaximierung, in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Band 211, 1993, pp. 351-358
Maußner, Alfred, Strom- und Bestandsrestriktionen in makroökonomischen Modellen, in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Band 205, 1988, pp. 316-331
Maußner, Alfred, Public Consumption, Optimal Capital Accumulation, and the Social Rate of Time Preference, in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 143, 1987, pp. 324-333