Startseite Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buchholz

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buchholz

Zur Person

Geboren im Jahre 1952, Dr. rer. pol. 1982, Habilitation 1987, Universit?t Tübingen, 1988-1992 Professor Universit?t Regensburg, 1992-1996 Professor Europa-Universit?t Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), seit 1996 Ordinarius für Volkswirtschaftslehre (Finanzwissenschaft) an der Universit?t Regensburg, Forschungsprofessor am ifo-Institut München.

Forschung

Im Zentrum der Forschung von Prof. Buchholz stehen die Aufgaben, die dem ?ffentlichen Sektor in einer Marktwirtschaft zukommen. Besondere Bedeutung finden dabei die Umweltpolitik, die Verteilungs- und Sozialpolitik sowie die Steuerpolitik.

Beispiele für Forschungsthemen sind:

• Internationale Umweltpolitik: Koordinationsbedarf und Koordinationsversagen
• Intertemporale Bewertung und intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit: Die Rolle der Diskontierung
• Familienbesteuerung und Familienpolitik
• Gesundheits?konomie
• Green National Accounting

Diskussionspapiere/ Discussion Papers

• Public Goods and Public Bads (with Richard Cornes and Dirk Rübbelke). CESifo Working Paper No.6437, 2017 (link).
• Advantageous Leadership in Public Good Provision: The Case of an Endogenous Contribution Technology (with Michael Eichenseer). CESifo Working Paper No.6352, 2017 (link).
• Discounting in an Uncertain World - Disentangling the Debate on the Weitzman-Gollier Puzzle. CESifo Working Paper No.4967, 2014 (link).

Aktuelle Ver?ffentlichungen/ Recent Publications (since 2014)

• Successful leadership in global public good provision: incorporating behavioural approaches (with Todd Sandler). Environmental and Resource Economics 1–17, forthcoming.
• Funding International Climate Protection: How to Overcome the Bergstrom Paradox? (with? Richard Cornes, Dirk Rübbelke and Wolfgang Peters). in: Climate Finance - Theory and Practice, Markandya, A., Galarraga, I. and Rübbelke, D. (eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 213-228, 2017.
• Technological Transfers in Global Climate Policy – A Strategic Perspective (with? Lisa Dippl and Michael Eichenseer). in: Climate Finance - Theory and Practice, Markandya, A., Galarraga, I. and Rübbelke, D. (eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 271-296, 2017.
• The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: The Lifework of Richard Cornes (with Dirk Rübbelke). in: The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: Essays in Memory of Richard Cornes, Buchholz, W. and Rübbelke, D. (eds.), Springer, Heidelberg and Berlin, 1-5, 2017.
• Strategic Coalition Formation in Global Public Good Provision (with Michael Eichenseer). in: The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: Essays in Memory of Richard Cornes, Buchholz, W. and Rübbelke, D. (eds.), Springer, Heidelberg and Berlin, 61-84, 2017.
• Olson’s exploitation hypothesis in a public good economy: a reconsideration (with Todd Sandler). Public Choice, 168: 103-114, 2016.
• Equity as a Prerequisite for Stability of Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision (with Alexander Haupt and Wolfgang Peters). Environmental and Resource Economics, 65(1): 61-78, 2016.
• Prisoner’s Dilemma (with Michael Eichenseer). in: A. Marciano and G.B. Ramello (ed.), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer, Heidelberg and Berlin, 2016.
• Pareto improvement through unilateral matching of public good contributions: The role of commitment (with ?Richard Cornes, Wolfgang Peters and Dirk Rübbelke). Economics Letters, 132:9-12, 2015.
• ?konomische Herausforderungen des Klimawandels (with Peter Heindl). Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 16(4): 324-350, 2015.
• Potentially Harmful International Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision (with Richard Cornes and Dirk Rübbelke). Economica, 81: 205–223, 2014.
• Non-Governmental Public Norm Enforcement in Large Societies as a Two-Stage Game of Voluntary Public Good Provision (with Josef Falkinger and Dirk Rübbelke). Journal of Public Economic Theory, 16: 899–916, 2014.
• Spielr?ume für uni- und multilateralen Klimaschutz (with Wolfgang Peters and Aneta Ulfert). Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht/Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 37(3):326-344, 2014.