Thomas Schuster

Prof. Dr. Thomas Schuster, born in Germany, is professor of economics at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim.^[1]

Education

Thomas Schuster studied economics at the University of Mannheim and at Portsmouth Polytechnic (Great Britain). Upon receiving his diploma from the University of Mannheim, he pursued a doctorate in economics and worked as a research assistant at Mannheim Centre of Social Research and at the Faculty of Economics of Mannheim University. For his doctoral thesis he conducted a European-wide survey about social policy. He estimated the determinants of the demand for social policy using microeconometric methods. He was the first scholar who determined the demand for social policy in the member states of the European Union.

Career

Professor Schuster gathered job experience as an equity analyst at the BBBank, a major German bank. He worked in the research department and was in charge of making investment recommendations for the bank’s customers on European and U.S. equities.

Afterwards, Professor Schuster was deputy professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern. Throughout this time, he taught many courses in statistics, economics and financial management. Besides his lectures in Kaiserslautern, he also taught at several other Universities of Applied Sciences including the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin (HTW), Pforzheim, and Deggendorf. Further, he regularly taught classes in Helsinki at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences - the largest University of Applied Sciences in Finland - and at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences.

In 2013, Professor Schuster was visiting research fellow at the Cologne Institute of Economic Research in Cologne, Germany.

In 2013-2014, he was a visiting professor in the faculty of business at Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.

In 2014, Professor Schuster won the Scientific Award for the Best Internal Publication 2013 of the Cologne Institute of Economic Research.

He regularly takes the floor in telecasts and gives radio interviews about financial markets and economics.

Research

Prof. Schuster’s research interests are primarily in the fields of social policy and labour economics. He is also an expert in international monetary policy. He regularly evaluates international opinion surveys which deal with economic and social policy topics. Recently, he also did some research on the European Monetary Union and the euro crisis. In all his research he has an empirical approach. Typically, new theories developed by him or well-known theories are tested empirically with a variety of statistical methods.

Further Activities

Prof. Schuster ist member of the catholic student fraternity K.D.St.V. Churpfalz, located in Mannheim (Germany). From 2006-2010 he was deputy head of the supervisory board of SIRE AG, Zittau (Germany). Since 2010 Prof. Schuster is listed in „Marquis Who's Who“. Additionally, he is listed in the German equivalent „Who is Who in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“ since 2011.

Selected Bibliography

Schuster, Thomas (1996a): A Net for the Case of Illness. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (No. 173 of 27 July 1996), p. 13.

Schuster, Thomas (1996b): European Social Policy. In: Ohr, Renate (Ed.): European Integration. Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln: W. Kohlhammer (together with Roland Vaubel), pp. 173–199.

Schuster, Thomas (1998): The Maternity Leave Directive: A Sensible Aggregation of Preferences on the European Level? In: König, Thomas; Rieger, Elmar; Schmitt, Hermann, Europe of Citizens? (Mannheim Yearbook of European Social Research, ed. by the Board of Governors of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, Vol. 3). Frankfurt: Campus 1998, pp. 89–110.

Schuster, Thomas (2000): The Development of Social Standards. The Case of Maternity Benefit and Maternity Leave. A European Comparison. In: Schneider, Hilmar (Ed.): Europe’s Future as a Social State. Challenges of Integration (Publications of the Institute for Economic Research Halle, ed. by Rüdiger Pohl, Vol. 4). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, pp. 125–144.

Schuster, Thomas (2001a): The Dynamics of European Integration. A Constitutional Choice Analysis of the Amsterdam Treaty. In: Schneider, Gerald / Aspinwall, Mark. D. (Ed.): The Rules of Integration. Institutionalist Approaches to the Study of Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press (together with Thomas Bräuninger, Tanja Cornelius und Thomas König), pp. 46–68.

Schuster (2001b): European or Decentralized Social Policy. The Influence of International Differences of Demand and Supply (Sociopolitical Publications, Vol. 84). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

Schuster, Thomas (2011a): Financial Management I (Study Material of the Distance Learning Program of the International University Bad Honnef ∙ Bonn). Bad Honnef (together with Leona Rüdt von Collenberg).

Schuster, Thomas (2011b): Financial Management II (Study Material of the Distance Learning Program of the International University Bad Honnef ∙ Bonn). Bad Honnef (together with Margarita Uskova).

Schuster, Thomas (2012a): Capital Budgeting I (Study Material of the Distance Learning Program of the International University Bad Honnef ∙ Bonn). Bad Honnef (together with Leona Rüdt von Collenberg).

Schuster, Thomas (2012b): Capital Budgeting II (Study Material of the Distance Learning Program of the International University Bad Honnef ∙ Bonn). Bad Honnef (together with Leona Rüdt von Collenberg).

Schuster, Thomas (2012c): Suggestions to Solve the Euro Crisis. (IUBH Working Paper No. 8). Bad Honnef (together with Margarita Uskova).

Schuster, Thomas (2013a): Capital Requirements Directive and Capital Requirements Regulation – Overview and Critical Evaluation. In: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen 66 (13), pp. 683–686.

Schuster, Thomas (2013b): Minimum Wage. Employment Risks are Higher than Claimed. (iw policy paper 19/2013). Cologne.

Schuster, Thomas (2013c): New Bank Equity Capital Rules in the European Union. A Critical Evaluation (iw policy paper 6/2013). Cologne (together with Felix Kövener and Jürgen Matthes).

Schuster, Thomas (2013d): The Reorganisation of Financial Markets. Current State of Financial Market Regulation Five Years after the Collapse of Lehman Brothers. (IW-Analyses. Research Reports from the Cologne Institute of Economic Research No 90). Cologne (together with Markus Demary).

Schuster, Thomas (2014): Statistics for Business and Economics. A Text and Study Book for the Bachelor Degree. Heidelberg: Springer Gabler (together with Arndt Liesen).

References

External links

• Homepage of Thomas Schuster at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim.
• Interview with China Radio International about the topic „Europe Struggles to Cope with Rising Debt Crisis“ on 17 June 2010.
• Participant of a panel discussion of China Radio International about the topic „Preview of G20 Summit in Toronto“ on 24 June 2010.
• Interview with Deutsche Welle about the financial crisis in Cyprus on 28 March 2013.
• Literature of Thomas Schuster cited in Google Scholar.
• Literature of Thomas Schuster in the catalogue of the German National Library.