Roland Kirstein
Dr., Professor of Economics of Business and Law, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
He holds the Professor of "Economics of Business and Law" at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany). After he studied Economics and Law at the Saarland University, he received his doctoral degree in Economics with a thesis on "Imperfect Decision-Making Judges" in 1998. In 2004 he completed his habilitation in Economics with a collection of articles on Law and Economics and Industrial Economics. Since 2002 Prof. Kirstein taught "Law and Economics" as a visiting professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at several German universities. He was appointed by the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg as a full professor in 2006.
Preferred research areas are game theory, collective decision making, banking regulation.
Professional background (selected)
1984-1987 Apprenticeship with Klöckner Stahl GmbH, Bremen, Germany.
1994-1999 Research associate, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
1999-2006 Assistant professor, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
since 2006 Full professor of "Economics of Business and Law", Otto-von-Guericke Univ. Magdeburg, Germany.
Current fields of research
Collective decision-making in organizations (power indices and corporate governance)
Banking regulation (oligopolistic banks under Basel equity regulation)
Risk-neutrality and market power.
Bargaining and delegation.
Recent publications (selection)
1. Kirstein, R. (2010): Volkswagen vs. Porsche. A Power-Index Analysis; International Journal of Corporate Governance 2(1), 1-20.
2. Kirstein, A./Kirstein, R. (2009) Collective Wage Agreements on Fixed Wages and Piece Rates may Cartelize Product Markets; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 165(2), 250-259.
3. Kirstein, R./Cooter, R. (2007) Sharing and Anti-Sharing in Teams; Economics Letters 96(3), 351-356.
4. Kirstein, R. (2002) The New Basle Accord, Internal Ratings, and the Incentives of Banks; International Review of Law and Economics 21 (4), 393-412.
5.Kirstein, R. (2000) Risk-Neutrality and Strategic Insurance; The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance. Issues and Practice 25 (2), 262-272.
