Affiliated Fellow Prof. Dr. Ekkehard A. Köhler

E-Mail: koehler@eucken.de

X: @ekkehardkohler

Research focus:
  • Empirical Economics
  • International Macroeconomics
  • Fiscal policy and public debt
  • Federalism
  • New Political Economy
  • History of Economics and Economic Thought

Dr. Ekkehard A. Köhler is a Full Professor of Economics and Economic Education at the University of Siegen and holds a doctorate in economics from the Unviersity of Freiburg. His research interests lie in the areas of economics, the transmission of its findings into economic education and the development of economic thinking, as well as in applied empirical and experimental economics. His enthusiasm for economic education and economic policy issues lead to related research projects that he has organized internationally. Research stays took him to the Paris School of Economics (Gilles Saint-Paul) and to the University of Southern California (John Matsusaka).

Publications and projects

Please find the latest information about Prof. Köhler’s publications and research projects on his website.

Qualifications

2015 Dr. rer. pol. Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

2011–2012 Scholarship holder, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit

2011 Young scholar of the Adam Smith Programme

2007–2009 Scholarship holder, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit

2006 Diplom-Volkswirt, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg

2001–2002 DAAD Scholarship, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Academic positions

since 2025 Full Professor of Economics and Economic Education University of Siegen

2022 – 2025 Assistant Professor (W1) JProf. with tenure track to W2 Professor University of Siegen

10/2019–09/2022 Fixed-Term Professor at Siegen University

02/2016–09/2022 Executive research associate at the Walter Eucken Institut Freiburg

02/2009-01/2016 Research associate at the Walter Eucken Institut Freiburg

03/2007-02/2009 Research assistant at the Walter Eucken Institut Freiburg

2006-2009 Editor Badische Zeitung

08/2006-12/2010 Lecturer at the IES European Union, Freiburg

2006 Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt

Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ökonomische Bildung

European Economic Association

European Public Choice Society Public Choice Society

American Political Science Association

Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.

NOUS Netzwerk für Ordnungsökonomik und Sozialphilosophie e.V.

Wilhelm-Röpke-Institut e.V.

Verband der Stipendiaten und Altstipendiaten der Friedrich-Naumann- Stiftung für die Freiheit