Prof. Dr. Michael Neugart - Technische Universität Darmstadt

CVProf. Dr. Michael NeugartAddressTechnical University of DarmstadtDepartment of Law and EconomicsResidenzschloss, Marktplatz 15D-64283 Darmstadt (Germany)phone: +49 (0)6151 162800e-mail: neugart@vwl.tu-darmstadt.deResearch InterestsLabor and macroeconomicsEconomic policyPolitical economicsAgent-based modellingCareersince 9/2011Full professor for public economics and economic policy atthe Technical University of Darmstadt, Department of Law,Business, and Economics3/2008 – 8/2011 Associate professor of economics at the Free University ofBozen/Bolzano (Italy), School of Economics and Management1/2008 Job offer for an associate professorship in economics fromDeakin University, Melbourne, declined10/2005 – 9/2006 Visiting professor ( ”Vertretungslehrstuhl”) for QuantitativeEconomic Policy at Universität Bielefeld, Department of Economics9/2004 – 2/2008 Senior research fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung(WZB), Abteilung Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Beschäftigung;project leader of DFG-Project: ”Erklärungsmodellefür Arbeitsmarktpolitik”, on leave for visting professorshipat Universität Bielefeld from 10/2005 – 9/20067/2003 – 8/2004Hochschulassistent”at Technische Universität Chemnitz, Departmentof”Economics1

9/2002 – 6/2003 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for EuropeanStudies, Harvard University9/2000 – 6/2003 Senior research fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung(WZB), Abteilung Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Beschäftigung;project leader for ”Qualifikationsbedarfsanalysen inLändern der OECD” (with K. Schömann), on leave from9/2002 – 6/2003 for research stay at Harvard University4/2000 – 8/2000 Post-doctoral position, Training and Mobility of Young ResearchersProgram of the European Commission, UniversidadCarlos III, Madrid, Spain10/1999 – 8/2000 Research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Department ofPolitical and Social Sciences, on leave from 4/2000 – 8/2000for research stay at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid3/1996 – 9/1999 Doctoral student of Prof. Dr. Michael Bolle, Freie UniversitätBerlin, Department of Political and Social SciencesEducation7/2006 “Habilitation” at Freie Universität Berlin, Department ofEconomics, Members of the commission: Prof. Irwin CollierPh.D., Prof. Dr. Michael Bolle, Prof. Dr. Helge Berger,Prof. Dr. Kai Konrad5/1999 Dr. rer. pol. with ”summa cum laude” at Freie UniversitätBerlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences, dissertationtopic: “Nonlinear labor market dynamics”, First referee:Prof. Dr. Michael Bolle; second referee: Prof. Dr. WilliSemmler10/1995 Diploma in Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (Fachrichtung Elektrotechnik)at Technische Universität Darmstadt9/1993 – 4/1994 Erasmus-Student at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London,U.K5/1989 Abitur at Bodensee-Gymnasium LindauResearch Stays Abroad4/2013 Beijing Normal University, Visiting Professor, Peking, China9/2002 – 7/2003 Harvard University, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow atthe Center for European Studies4/2000 – 8/2000 Universidad Carlos III, Economics Department, Post-Doctoralposition, Training and Mobility of Young Researchers Programof the European Commission, Madrid, Spain2

8/1998 – 12/1998 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), CambridgeUSA, invited by Prof. R.B. Freeman.Shorter stays: University of Uppsala, Department of Economics(2 weeks, 2011), European Commission, DirectorateGeneral Economics and Financial Affairs (Visiting ResearchFellow, 2 weeks, 2007), University of Gothenburg, Departmentof Economics (3 weeks, 2001); University of Amsterdam,Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance(1 week, 2001)PublicationsArticles in refereed journalsSequential teamwork in competitive environments: theoryand evidence from swimming data European Economic Review,(forthcoming), 2013 (with Matteo G. Richiardi)Coalition governments and policy reform with asymmetricinformation (with Carsten Helm), JITE – Journal of Institutionaland Theoretical Economics, (forthcoming), 2013The influence of central bank transparency on labor marketregulation (with Carsten Hefeker), The Manchester School,(forthcoming), 2013Were the Hartz reforms responsible for the improved performanceof the German labour market? Economic Affairs 33,34-47 (with Metin Akyol and Stefan Pichler)Large-scale modeling of economic systems, Complex Systems22, 175-191 (with Mike Holcombe, Simon Coakley, MariamKiran, Shawn Chin, Chris Greenough, David Worth, SilvanoCincotti, Marco Raberto, Andrea Teglio, ChristopheDeissenberg, Sander van der Hoog, Herbert Dawid, SimonGemkow, and Philipp Harting)Economic incentives and the timing of births: evidence fromthe German parental benefit reform of 2007 (with HenryOhlsson), Journal of Population Economics, 26, 87-108, 2013Labor market integration policies and the convergence of regions:the role of skills and technology diffusion (with HerbertDawid, Simon Gemkow, and Philipp Harting), Journalof Evolutionary Economics, 22, 543-562, 2012Female employment and divorce: taking into account a socialmultiplier, Mathematical Population Studies - An InternationalJournal of Mathematical Demography 19, 63-72,20123

How German labour courts decide: an econometric casestudy (with Helge Berger), German Economic Review, 13,56-70, 2012Labour courts, nomination bias and unemployment in Germany(with Helge Berger), European Journal of PoliticalEconomy 27, 659-673, (Appendix) 2011Referral hiring, endogenous social networks, and inequality:an agent-based analysis (with Simon Gemkow), Journal ofEvolutionary Economics 21, 703-719, 2011Agent-based models for economic policy design (with HerbertDawid), Eastern Economic Journal 37, 44-50, 2011Labor market regulation and the legal system (with CarstenHefeker), International Review of Law and Economics 30,218-225, 2010On the effects of skill upgrading in the presence of spatiallabor market frictions: an agent-based analysis of spatialpolicy design (with Herbert Dawid, Simon Gemkow, PhilippHarting), JASSS - Journal of Artificial Social Science Simulation12, 4, 2009Financial market lobbies and pension reform (with AchimKemmerling), European Journal of Political Economy 25,163-173, 2009Pensions with early retirement and without commitment,Applied Economics Letters 16, 257-260, 2009Shocks and endogenous institutions: an agent-based modelof labor market performance in turbulent times (with ChristianMartin), Computational Economics 33, 31-46, 2009The choice of insurance in the labor market, Public Choice134, 445-462, 2008Labor market policy evaluation with ACE, Journal of EconomicBehavior and Organization 67, 418-430, 2008Skills, innovation, and growth: an agent-based policy analysis(with Herbert Dawid, Simon Gemkow, Philip Harting,Kordian Kabus, Klaus Wersching) Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomieund Statistik/Journal of Economics and Statistics228, 251-275, 2008The emergence of temporary work agencies, (with DonaldStorrie), Oxford Economic Papers 58, 137-156, 2006Unemployment insurance: the role of electoral systems andregional labor market, European Journal of Political Economy21, 815-829, 20054

Why German labour market reform has begun, EconomicAffairs 25, 11-16, 2005Endogenous matching functions: an agent-based computationalapproach, Advances in Complex Systems 7, 187-202,2004 (also published in: R. Leombruni and M. Richiardi(eds.), Industry and labor dynamics, the agent-based computationaleconomics approach, Proceedings of the wild@ace-2003 workshop, World Scientific, New Jersey, pp. 90-106,2004.)Complicated dynamics in a flow model of the labor market,Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 53, 193-213, 2004Endogenous fluctuations in the demand for education, (withJan Tuinstra), Journal of Evolutionary Economics 13, 29-51,2003Inflation-unemployment trade-off and regional labor marketdata, (with Uwe Hassler), Empirical Economics 28, 321-334,2003A remedy for fiscal externalities in a monetary union, (withBjörn Rother), Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie2, 91-111, 2002Is there chaos on the German labour market? Jahrbücherfür Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie/Journal of Economicsand Statistics 218, 658-673, 1999BooksForecasting Labour Markets in OECD Countries - Measuringand Tackling Mismatches, (ed. with Klaus Schömann),Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K., 2002 (reviewed by FrankOskamp in Review of World Economics 139, 3, 2003)Ökonomie als Grundlage politischer Entscheidungen. Essayson Growth, Labor Markets, and European Integration inHonor of Michael Bolle, (ed. with Jürgen Gabriel), Leskeund Budrich, Opladen 2001Nonlinear labor market dynamics. Springer-Verlag, LectureNotes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 486,2000Articles in edited volumesArbeitsmarktpolitik bei endogenen Matching-Funktionen, in:G. Schmid, M. Gangl und P. Kupka (Hrsg.), Arbeitsmarktpolitikund Strukturwandel: Empirische Analysen, Beiträgezur Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung Nr. 286, 97-106,20045

Interest groups, enlargement of the EMU, and labor marketreform, in: R. Franzese, P. Mooslechner and M. Schürz(eds.), Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities. MonetaryPolicy and Wage Bargaining Institutions in EMU, KluwerAcademic Publishers, 147-164, 2003A remedy for fiscal externalities in a monetary union, (withBjörn Rother), Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie2, 91-111, 2002Why forecast and for whom? Some introductory remarks,(with Klaus Schömann), in: M. Neugart und K. Schömann(eds.) Forecasting Labour Markets in OECD Countries -Measuring and Tackling Mismatches, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham,U.K., 1-25, 2002Langfristige Dynamiken auf dem IT-Arbeitsmarkt: Einschreibungenvon Ingenieuren an deutschen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen,in: Hans-Jörg Bullinger (Hrsg.), Qualifizierungsoffensive,Bedarf frühzeitig erkennen - zukunftsorientierthandeln. Bielefeld, Bertelsmann, 168-173, 2002Other publicationsArbeitslosigkeit in Europa: Persistenz und Flexibilität, in:Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Bd. 14-15, 2000Book reviewsEmployment Protection Legislation, edited by Skedinger, P.,183 pp Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2010, Journalof Economics, 192, 185-187, 2011Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, editedby Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan.Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton,MA, USA, 2003, xi + 256 pp., British Journal of IndustrialRelations 43, 334-335, 2005TeachingUndergraduate level: Economic Policy, Microeconomics,Macroeconomics, Introduction to EconomicsGraduate level: Labor Economics, Political Economics,Macroeconomic Policies, Trade Policy, Public Economics,Social PolicyPhD: Agent-based Computational Economics6

Research grants and stipends9/2006 – 9/2009 6th Framework Program of the EU: An agent-based softwareplatform for European economic policy design with heterogeneousinteracting agents: new insights from a bottom-upapproach to economic modeling and simulation; responsiblefor workpackage: Agent-based computational models of skilldynamics and innovation (with Herbert Dawid)9/2004 – 8/2007 Research project ”Erklärung von Arbeitsmarktpolitiken” financedby the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), projectwas on hold from 10/2005 – 09/20069/2002 – 7/2003 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship of the Center for EuropeanStudies, Harvard University4/2000 – 8/2000 Post-doctoral stipend, Training and Mobility of Young ResearchersProgram of the European Commission, UniversidadCarlos III, Madrid, Spanien5/1997 – 5/1999 Doctoral stipend of the“Nachwuchsförderungsgesetz (Nafög)des Landes Berlin”5/1999 IZA Summer School for Young Labour Economists (1 week)9/1998 – 12/1998 DAAD travel stipendMemberships2008 Member of the expert committee on HRD and labor marketsat the Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)2004-2008 Member of the ”Nachwuchsnetzwerk des Zentrums für interdisziplinäreForschung (ZIF) an der Universität Bielefeld”Member of the ”Verein für Socialpolitik”Organization of conferencesADACE2010: Workshop on Advances in Agent-Based ComputationalEconomics, 5th of July 2010 to 7th of July 2010at Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF), BielefeldUniversity (with Herbert Dawid)Workshop on Computational Political Economics, 5./6. Mai2006 at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF)Bielefeld (with Christian Martin)Workshop on Skill Needs and Labour Market Dynamics,Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), 8./9.November 2001 (with Klaus Schömann)7

Mediawww.politikerscreen.de, Berliner Kurier, WZB-Mitteilungen,Financial Times Deutschland, RAI Bozen, mdr info,Hessischer Rundfunk, Darmstädter Echo, and othersEditorial Boardsince 7/2011Member of the editorial board of the European Journal ofPolitical EconomyRefereeingJournals: Advances in Complex Systems, Applied MathematicalModeling, Complexity Economics, Economic Inquiry,Economics, Economics of Education Review, EuropeanJournal of Political Economy, European Union Politics,German Economic Review, International Journal of Manpower,JITE, Labour Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviorand Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics andControl, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination,Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of MathematicalSociology, Mind and Society, North-Holland HandbookSeries, Public Choice, Review of Law and Economics, ScandinavianJournal of Economics, Structural Change and EconomicDynamics, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and EconometricsScientific bodies: Belgian Science Policy, 6th FrameworkProgram of the European Union, German Israeli Foundation(GIF), Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung(FWF) Österreich, Research Fund CypressPresentations - last five years onlyInvited:Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, research seminar: Policydeviations, uncertainty and the European Court of Justice,2013Universität Mannheim, SFB research seminar: Lobbying anddismissal dispute resolution systems, 2013Beijing Normal University, research seminar: Spatial labormarket frictions and economic convergence: policy implicationsfrom a heterogeneous agent model, 20138

ZEW Mannheim, research seminar: Labor market integrationpolicies and the convergence of regions: the role of skillsand technology diffusion, 2012University of Salento, research seminar: Sequential teamworkin competitive environments - theory and evidence fromswimming data, 2012University of Mainz, research seminar: Sequential teamworkin competitive environments - theory and evidence from swimmingdata, 2012University of Hamburg, research seminar: Sequential teamworkin competitive environments - theory and evidence fromswimming data, 2011Global systems conference, Paris: Executive compensation,implicit incentives, and competition, 2011IAB conference on labor markets, Nürnberg: Distributionand welfare effects of dismissal dispute resolution systems,2011Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, research seminar: Labormarket integration policies and the convergence of regions,2010University of Trier, research seminar: How German laborcourts decide, 2010University of Siegen, research seminar: How German laborcourts decide, 2010University of Trento, research seminar: Labor market integrationpolicies and the convergence of regions, 2010SOAS, University of London: Economic incentives and thetiming of births: evidence from the German parental benefitreform, 2010Universität Tübingen, research seminar: Asymmetric information,coalition governments, and policy reform, 2009Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, research seminar: Referralhiring, endogenous social networks, and inequality: anagent-based analysis, 2009Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, research seminar:Referral hiring, endogenous social networks, and inequality:an agent-based analysis, 200910 years of CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam: Referralhiring, endogenous social networks, and inequality: an agentbasedanalysis, 20099

University of Rovira i Virgili, research seminar: Skills, innovation,and growth: an agent-based analysis, 2008Delft University: Skills, innovation, and growth: an agentbasedanalysis, 2008Refereed conferences:PEIO conference, Heidelberg: Policy deviations, uncertaintyand the European Court of Justice, 2013Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Göttingen: Lobbyingand dismissal dispute resolution systems, 2012WEHIA Conference, Paris: Spatial labor market frictionsand economic convergence, 2012Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt: Sequentialteamwork in competitive environments - theory andevidence from swimming data, 2011Conference on tournaments, University of North-Carolina,Raleigh: Sequential teamwork in competitive environments- theory and evidence from swimming data, 2011Conference of the European Economic Association, Glasgow:Economic incentives and the timing of births: evidence fromthe German parental benefit reform, 2010Conference of the European Public Choice Society, Izmir:Coalition governments and policy reform with asymmetricinformation, 2010Conference on Political Economics, Catholic University ofMilan: Asymmetric information, coalition governments, andpolicy reform, 2009Verein für Socialpolitik, Magdeburg: Referral hiring, endogenoussocial networks, and inequality: an agent-basedanalysis, 2009ESHIA Conference Peking, China: Referral hiring, endogenoussocial networks, and inequality: an agent-based analysis,2009Artificial Economics Conference, University of Innsbruck:Referral hiring, endogenous social networks, and inequality:an agent-based analysis, 2008ESSA conference, University of Brescia: Referral hiring, endogenoussocial networks, and inequality: an agent-basedanalysis, 2008SOLE conference, Columbia University: Labor courts, nominationbias, and unemployment in Germany, 200810

Conference on Labor Market Outcomes: A transatlantic Perspective,Paris: Shocks and endogenous institutions - Anagent-based model of labor market performance in turbulenttimes, 200811