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| Professur für Finanzwissenschaft, Sozialpolitik und Gesundheitsökonomik |
| Prof. Dr. Christian Seidl ( emeritus ) |
Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Professur für Finanzwissenschaft, Sozialpolitik und Gesundheitsökonomik
Wilhelm-Seelig-Platz 1
24118 Kiel
Sprechstunde: Montag, 12 - 13 Uhr in Raum 408
Fon: +49 431 880-3315
Fax: +49 431 880-4621
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| Curriculum vitae |
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Christian Seidl was born on August 5, 1940, in Vienna, Austria. He married Christine Seidl in 1968. He has no children.
He was raised in Vienna and attended elementary and high school there. Beginning Winter term 1962/63 he studied Economics and Business Administration at the Vienna School of Economics (then "Hochschule für Welthandel"). 1966 he was awarded an MBA (Diplomkaufmann) by the Vienna School of Economics and 1969 a doctoral degree in Economics (Doctor rerum commercialium).
On October 1, 1968 Christian Seidl became a research assistant at the Institute of Economics at the University of Vienna. 1973 he acquired his "Habilitation" in Economics from the Department of Law and Economics of the University of Vienna. [in German speaking countries, a Habilitation warrants the right to give university lectures.]
On July 9, 1975 he was appointed a professorship in Economics at the University of Graz, Austria. He has held the position of Director of the Institute of Public Economics at the University of Graz since its foundation in 1976. 1981 he was offered a professorship of Economics at the University of Munich which he declined. 1985 he was offered a position as a professor of Economics at the University of Kiel which he accepted with effect of October 1, 1986. Since this time he holds the position as Director of the Institute of Public Finance and Social Policy at the University of Kiel. In addition he was elected as a Director of the Lorenz-von-Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at the University of Kiel in 1998.
Since 1970 he has given lectures at the Universities of Vienna, Linz, Graz, and Kiel and has also acted as an examiner in Economics at the Universities of Vienna, Graz, and Kiel.
On May 17, 1983 he was elected as a corresponding member to the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Verein für Socialpolitik, of the American Economic Association, of the Econometric Society, of the Royal Economic Society and of the European Economic Association. Professor Seidl has been a co-editor of the Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie since 1980, of Economic Systems since 1988, and of History of Economic Ideas since 1992. He served as a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Political Economy between 1983 and 1998.
In the Summer term 1981 he was a visiting scholar at the Universities of Oxford and Stanford, in the Summer term 1989 at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), Queen’s University (Kingston), and Beer Sheva (Israel). In the Summer term 1993 Professor Seidl was again a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Between 1979 and 1985 he served as a member of the Austrian Tax Reform Commission, and between 1982 and 1986 he was a member of the extended managing committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik. He has acted as an expert for the Österreichischer Forschungsföderungsfonds, the Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk, and the Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung.
Professor Seidl has published more than 120 articles in learned journals, proceedings volumes, and lexicographical works. He is the author of three books and has edited or co-edited 10 books in various fields of Economics.
He regularly attends the congresses of the European Economic Association, the Econometric Society, the Verein für Socialpolitik, the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, the FUR Conferences, and other related meetings. On the average Professor Seidl has presented ten papers annually at international congresses and other universities.
His research concentrates on experimental economics, public economics, social policy, theories of allocation and distribution, decision and utility theories, social choice, tax reform, welfare economics, poverty economics, microeconomics, and the economics of law.
He was awarded the Dr. Theodor-Körner Preis in 1970 and 1975 and the Leopold-Kunschak-Preis in 1974.
Professor Seidl retired effective of October 1st, 2005. |
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