Professor Dr. Jürgen Eichberger

Project C8

Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftstheorie I
Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
Universität Heidelberg

Jürgen Eichberger was born in 1952. He received his academic education as an economist at the University of Mannheim where he completed his Ph.D. in 1983. After a year as visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario, he took up the position of a Lecturer at the Australian National University in Canberra in 1985. In 1990 Professor Eichberger was appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He returned to Germany in 1995 to take up the position of a full professor at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken. Since 2000 he is professor at the Alfred Weber-Institute of the University of Heidelberg. Professor Eichberger serves on the editorial boards of the German Economic Review and Theory and Decision. His current research interests are in game and decision theory and financial economics.

Selected Publications

• Eichberger, J., Kelsey, D.(2002), Strategic Complements, Substitutes and Ambiguity: The Implications for Public Goods, Journal of Economic Theory 106, 436-466.
• Eichberger, J., Güth, W., Müller, W. (2003), Attitudes towards Risk: An Experiment, Metroeconomica 54, 89-124.
• Eichberger, J., Chateauneuf, A., Grant, S. (2003), A Simple Axiomatization and Constructive Representation Proof for Choquet Expected Utility, Economic Theory 22, 907-915.
• Eichberger, J., Kelsey, D.(2004), Sequential Two-Player Games with Ambiguity, International Economic Review 45, 1229-1261.
• Eichberger, J., Grant, S., Kelsey, D.(2005), CEU Preferences and Dynamic Consistence, Mathematical Social Sciences 49, 2005, 143-151.
• Eichberger, J., Bailey, R., Kelsey, D.(2005), Ambiguity and Public Good Provision in Large Societies, Journal of Public Economic Theory 7, 741-759.
• Eichberger, J., Summer, M. , Bank Capital, Liquidity and Systemic Risk, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.