Focus and conception of research activities
- Regulatory Policy and Constitutional Economics
- Political Economy of Reforms
- EconomicTheory of Justice
- Power and Conflict Economics
Central research fields of Prof. Neumärker’s department are the regulatory design, reform and effects of societal rules for economic and political activities in nation states, at the EU level and in a global context.
The department conducts and combines basic economic research and regulatory economic analyses of specific fields of economic policy action.
The methodological focus is currently on model-based and experimental economic research. In addition, meta-analyses of empirical case studies and agent-based modelling are carried out in current projects and conceptual contributions are made.
Basic Economic Research
Power asymmetries, violent and subtle conflicts, social inequalities and persistent reform blockades substantially call into question the lasting functionality and fairness of a market economy. Central economic concepts of market and political exchange take such phenomena into account only insufficiently or not at all. The department addresses this lack of explanatory content of economic concepts and theories with basic economic research.
In her foundational work, she combines the work of the classics of the Freiburg School around Walter Eucken with constitutional economics and social contract theory as well as current economic – and in part also political science and philosophical – concepts of political reform activity, social justice and fairness, and conflict and power in social interactions.
The main objective is the significant further development of economic approaches, concepts and theories of economic policy (with a focus on regulatory policy) and the social market economy.
Related publications and activities (excerpt):
- Neumärker, B. (Hrsg.): Konflikt, Macht und Gewalt aus politökonomischer Perspektive. Metropolis, Marburg 2011.
- Neumärker, B.: Neuroeconomics and the Economic Logic of Behavior, in: Analyse und Kritik 29 (2007), 60-85.
- Neumärker, B.: Die politische Ökonomie der privaten Bereitstellung öffentlicher Güter: Ein vernachlässigtes Grundproblem der Finanzwissenschaft. Lang, Frankfurt a.M. u.a.O. 2003.
- Neumärker, B.: Finanzverfassung und Staatsgewalt in der Demokratie. Lang, Frankfurt a.M. u.a.O. 1995.
- Goldschmidt, N. und Neumärker, B.: Kapitalismuskritik als Ideologiekritik: Der Freiburger Ansatz des “Ordo-Kapitalismus” als sozialwissenschaftliche Alternative zum Laissez-Faire-Approach, in: Hubert Hieke (Hrsg.): Kapitalismus: Kritische Betrachtungen und Reformansätze. Metropolis, Marburg 2008, 143-166.
- Lenger, A.: Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen, Ordnungspolitik und Inklusion: Beiträge aus konflikttheoretischer und kulturökonomischer Perspektive. Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität: Wirtschafts- und Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Fakultät 2012.
- Oberlack, C. and Neumärker, B.: Economics, Institutions and Adaptation to Climate Change. CEN-Papers 2011-04.
- Competition between Conflict and Cooperation Workshop, Freiburg, June 13-14, 2013.
Analyses of specific fields of economic policy action
Current and recently completed analyses of specific fields of economic policy action address the following areas:
- Public debt
- International economic order and land grabbing
- Adaptation to the consequences of climate change
- Unconditional basic income
- Education policy
- Tax evasion
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Management remuneration
- Intergenerational justice
Related publications and activities (excerpt):
- Neumärker, B.: Faire Managemententlohnung, in: Buchholz, W. (Hrsg.), Wirtschaftsethik in einer globalisierten Welt. Wirtschaftsethische Perspektiven IX, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, 39-60.
- Neumärker, B. and Pech, G.: Penalties in the Theory of Equilibrium Tax Evasion: Solving King John’s Problem, in: Public Finance Review 39 (2011), 5-24.
- Neumärker, B.: Generationengerechte Sozialversicherung aus konstitutioneller Sicht, in: Goldschmidt, N. (Hrsg.): Generationengerechtigkeit. Ordnungsökonomische Konzepte. Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, 179-188.
- Neumärker, B.: Partizipation an freiwilligen Vereinbarungen, in: Feindt, P.H.; Newig, J. (Hrsg.), Partizipation, Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung, Nachhaltigkeit. Metropolis, Marburg 2005, 117-134.
- Hesse, N.: Managerentlohnung und die Reformbereitschaft der Bevölkerung: ein Beitrag zur politischen Ökonomie sozialer Präferenzen. Metropolis, Marburg 2008.
- Kappius, R., Interpretations of “Equal Opportunity” in Practice: Comparing the Feasibility of Divergent Concepts, in: Revista italiana degli economisti 2 (2013), 227-252.
- Jamil, S.: A Constitutional Regulation of Public-Private Partnerships. Hamburg, Kovac 2011.
- Oberlack, C. and K. Eisenack, 2013: Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through international cooperation. Global Environmental Change, in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvch.2013.08.016
- 24th Workshop of the European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy, Freiburg, May 3-4, 2012.
- Post-Crisis Fiscal Consolidation Strategies Conference, Freiburg, March 24-25, 2011.