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48
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1482
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45

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1995 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 1991 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1981 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Martin Hellwig is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Germany. Their research spans primarily the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's work concentrates on multiple main topics such as Economic Theories and Models, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Economic Theory and Policy, Economic Growth and Productivity, Auction Theory and Applications, Global Financial Regulation and Crises, and State Capitalism and Financial Governance.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Wirtschaftsdienst, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, Journal of Financial Regulation, and German Economic Review.

Recent notable papers authored by Martin Hellwig include:

  • Twelve Years after the Financial Crisis-Too-big-to-fail is still with us, 2021, Journal of Financial Regulation
  • Dynamic Inefficiency and Fiscal Interventions in an Economy with Land and Transaction Costs, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • 'Capitalism: what has gone wrong?': Who went wrong? Capitalism? The market economy? Governments? 'Neoliberal' economics?, 2021, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Dynamic inefficiency and fiscal interventions in an economy with land and transaction costs, 2021, German Economic Review
  • Geldpolitik und Nachhaltigkeit, 2022, Wirtschaftsdienst

Martin Hellwig has collaborated with several coauthors frequently, including Anat R. Admati, Viola Priesemann, Guntram B. Wolff, Gerhard Schick, and Jürg Rlum.

In terms of book publications, they have published with Princeton University Press, including the book titled The Bankers' New Clothes (2023).

Over the course of their career, Martin Hellwig has received various professional recognitions such as:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003
  • Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association, 1995
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 1991
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society, 1981

Best Publications

  • On the aggregation of information in competitive markets

    Martin F Hellwig

  • Incentive-compatible debt contracts: The one-period problem

    Douglas Gale;Martin Hellwig

  • The Bankers' New Clothes

    Anat Admati;Martin Hellwig

  • Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity Is Not Expensive

    Anat R. Admati;Peter M. DeMarzo;Martin F. Hellwig;Paul Pfleiderer

  • An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report

    Martin Hellwig;André Sapir;Philippe Aghion;Giuseppe Bertola

  • The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It

    Anat R. Admati;Martin F. Hellwig

  • Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: An Analysis of the Subprime-Mortgage Financial Crisis

    Martin F. Hellwig

  • Banking, financial intermediation and corporate finance

    Martin Hellwig

  • On the Economics and Politics of Corporate Finance and Corporate Control

    Martin Hellwig

  • The macroeconomic implications of capital adequacy requirements for banks

    Jürg Blum;Martin Hellwig

  • Some Recent Developments in the Theory of Competition in Markets with Adverse Selection

    Martin Hellwig

  • The Leverage Ratchet Effect

    Anat R. Admati;Peter M. DeMarzo;Martin F. Hellwig;Paul C. Pfleiderer

  • Liquidity Provision, Banking, and the Allocation of Interest Rate Risk

    Martin Hellwig

  • Bertrand-edgeworth oligopoly in large markets

    Beth E Allen;Martin Hellwig

  • Moral Hazard and Equilibrium Credit Rationing: An Overview of the Issues

    Helmut Bester;Martin Hellwig

  • An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report

    André Sapir;Philippe Aghion;Giuseppe Bertola;Martin Hellwig

  • Rational expectations equilibrium with conditioning on past prices: a mean-variance example

    Martin F. Hellwig

  • The Challenge of Monetary Theory

    Martin F. Hellwig

  • Systemic Aspects of Risk Management in Banking and Finance

    Martin Hellwig

  • The Leverage Ratchet Effect: Leverage Ratchet Effect

    Anat R. Admati;Peter M. Demarzo;Martin F. Hellwig;Paul Pfleiderer

  • The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It: with a new preface by the authors

    Anat Admati;Martin Hellwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Anat R. Admati
Anat R. Admati Stanford University
André Sapir
André Sapir Université Libre de Bruxelles
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Giuseppe Bertola
Giuseppe Bertola University of Turin
Peter M. DeMarzo
Peter M. DeMarzo Stanford University
Marco Pagano
Marco Pagano University of Naples Federico II
Douglas Gale
Douglas Gale New York University
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Klaus M. Schmidt
Klaus M. Schmidt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dirk Schoenmaker
Dirk Schoenmaker Erasmus University Rotterdam

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