Professor Axel Börsch-Supan, Ph.D.

Project B1

Mannheimer Forschungsinstitut Ökonomie und demographischer Wandel
Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre, Abteilung Volkswirtschaftslehre
Universität Mannheim

Axel Börsch-Supan was born 1954 in Darmstadt, Germany. He received a diploma in Mathematics at the University of Bonn in 1980, and a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachu­setts Institute of Technology in 1984. He was Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 1984 until 1987, then Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Dortmund, Germany. Since 1989 he has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. Prof. Börsch-Supan has spent the winter of 1991/92 visiting Berkeley, and he was a Fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute in 1995/96. In 2002 he was Harris German-Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College. He is director of the newly founded Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, director of the Institut for Economics und Statistics, research associate of the NBER, research fellow of CEPR, ordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academie of Science and the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina", and a member of the Council of Advisors to the Economics Ministry. His current research interests include: savings behavior, retirement models, housing markets, firm growth, structural and frictional unemployment, and nonlinear and panel data econometrics.

Selected Publications

• Boeri, T., Börsch-Supan, A., Tabellini, G. (2002), Would you like to Reform the Pension System? The Opinions of European Citizens, American Economic Review.
• Börsch-Supan, A. (Ed.) (2003), Life-Cycle Savings and Public Policy, Academic Press, NY.
• Börsch-Supan, A., Euwals, R., Eymann, A. (2004), Who determines household savings for old age? Evidence from Dutch panel data, Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 25.
• Börsch-Supan, A. (2005), From Traditional DB to Notional DC Systems: The Pension Reform Process in Sweden, Italy and Germany, Journal of the European Economics Association, 3, 458-465.
• Börsch-Supan, A. (2005), Risiken im Lebenszyklus: Theorie und Evidenz aus SAVE und international vergleichenden Surveys. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik.