Andreas Stephan
Andreas Stephan is professor of Economics at the Jönköping International Business School. He studied industrial engineering and business administration at the Berlin University of Technology and received his Ph.D. in Economics at the Humboldt University Berlin. He previously held positions at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin and as a junior professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. He is currently also a visiting scholar at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin.
Andreas Stephan’s main research fields are innovation, firm performance, infrastructure, network industries, competition, productivity and efficiency analysis. His teaching spectrum encompasses courses in statistics, microeconometrics, efficiency analysis, structural equation modelling, industrial organization and European competition policy.
He has conducted various consultancy projects for German ministries and government agencies. Additionally, he has received research grants from institutions, e.g., the German Science Foundation (DFG), the Anglo-German Foundation and the European Investment Bank.
Selected publications:
• Locational Conditions, Cooperation, and Innovativeness: Evidence from Research and Company Spin-Offs (with Anna Lejpras), forthcoming in The Annals of Regional Science
• Subsidiary Role and Skilled Labour Effects in Small Developed Countries (with Jens Gammelgaard, Frank McDonald, Heinz Tueselmann and Christoph Dörrenbächer), Management International Review 49(1), 2009, pp. 27-42
• Allocative Efficiency Measurement Revisited: Do We Really Need Input Prices? (with Oleg Badunenko and Michael Fritsch), Economic Modelling 25(5), 2008, pp. 1093-1109.
• The Effects of Uncertainty on the Leverage of Non-Financial Firms (with Christopher Baum and Oleksandr Talavera), Economic Inquiry 47(2), 2008, pp. 216-225.
• Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration (with Kurt Geppert), Papers in Regional Science 87(2), 2008, pp. 193-217.
• Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Liquidity (with Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan, Oleksandr Talavera), Economic Modelling 25(5), 2008, pp. 833-849.
• On Estimating an Asset’s Implicit Beta (with Sven Husmann), Journal of Futures Markets, 27, 2007, pp. 961-979.
• A Schumpeter-inspired Approach to the Construction of R&D Capital Stocks (with Jürgen Bitzer), Applied Economics 39, 2007, pp. 179-189.
• Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel? The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment (with Olivier Cadot and Lars-Hendrik Röller), Journal of Public Economics 90, 2006, pp. 1133-1153.
• Do Eurozone Countries Cheat with their Budget Deficit Forecasts? (with Tilman Brück), Kyklos 59, 2006, pp. 17-29.
• Measuring Performance Heterogeneity Within Groups - A Two-Dimensional Approach (with Michael Fritsch), Applied Economic Letters 13, 2006, pp. 17–20.
• Regionalization of Innovation Policy: Introduction, Research Policy 34, Special Issue, Guest Editors: Michael Fritsch and Andreas Stephan, 2005, pp. 1123-1127.
• The Contribution of Local Public Infrastructure to Private Productivity and its Political-Economy: Evidence from a Panel of Large German Cities, (with Achim Kemmerling), Public Choice 113, 2002, pp. 403-424.
Working papers can be found at http://ideas.repec.org/e/pst185.html
Andreas Stephan's publications can be also found at google scholar.