Georg Erber
Georg Erber is a Research officer at the Department of Industry and Technology, German Institute for Economic Research. He has been Research Associate and Lecturer at the Economics Department of the Free University of Berlin. He was also an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Econometrics and Visiting Professor at Thammasat University of Bangkok, Thailand, Zheijiang University of Hangzhou, PRCh, and Counsellor at the National Planning Institute, Lima, Peru, Lecutrer at the École National d'administration et de Gestion, Vientiane, Lao PR.
His principal fields of interest are -- besides Electronic Commerce and Network Economics -- industrial organization, macroeconomic theory and policy, technological change and unemployment, growth and structural change, and econometrics.
He has published a number of books and research reports including: Catching-Up or Falling Behind, Relative Differences in Productivity and Price Competitiveness between U.S: and German Industries, 1960-1985, Future Pespectives of Germany in International Competition: Implications of the New Growth Theories for Industrial Policy, (in German with H. Hagemann and S. Seiter, physica, Heidelberg, 1998), Credibility: measurement and impacts, Central bank experience and Euro-perpsectives, (with H. Hagemann in: The Political Economy of Central Banking, ed. by P. Arestis a,d M. Sawyer), Edward Elgar, 1998, Electronic Commerce, Opportunities and Risks of Global Electronic Business Transactions, (with Stefan Bach in: Economic Bulletin, 4/99;