Simon Wiederhold

(born 21.02.1982, Leinefelde)

Economist

Ifo Institute
Human Capital and Innovation
Poschingerstra�e 5
81679 M�nchen

Phone: +49(0)89/9224-1309
Fax: +49(0)89/9224-1460

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Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/wiederhold-s

Wiederhold Simon

Main focus:

Economics of Innovation, Public Procurement, Endogenous Growth Theory, Experimental Economics

Employed at the Ifo Institute since 2011.

Academic Background:

		01/2012	Ph.D. in Economics, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Grade: �summa cum laude�, Dissertation: �The Role of Public Procurement in Innovation: Theory and Empirical Evidence�, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner, Prof. Dr. Oliver Kirchkamp, Prof. Wesley M. Cohen, Ph.D.
05/2007	-	08/2011	Ph.D. Student at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany (Graduate College �The Economics of Innovative Change,� funded by the German Science Foundation, DFG)
04/2011	-	06/2011	Visiting PhD Student at Duke University, Durham, USA
11/2008	-	03/2011	Scientific and Administrative Coordinator of the Graduate College �The Economics of Innovative Change� (funded by the German Science Foundation, DFG), Jena, Germany
10/2001	-	04/2007	Student of Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany (Diplom-Volkswirt)
10/1992	-	06/2000	Staatliches Gymnasium, Worbis, Germany (A-level)

Languages:

German, English, French

Professional Experience:

10/2006	-	04/2007	Research Assistant at the Chair for Microeconomics, Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
09/2004	-	02/2005	Intern at the Department �R&D and Innovation in the Economy; SME� (FuE und Innovation in der Wirtschaft, KMU), Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin, Germany

Scholarships, awards and prizes:

2011	Fellow of the German Science Foundation at the 4th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economics at Lindau
2007-2008, 2011	German Research Foundation: PhD scholarship
2007	Award for "Best graduated of the year" 2007, at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

Cooperation in Boards, Charges and Positions:

July 2008 � July 2009 Doctoral Students' Representative in the Board of the Jena Graduate Academy, Graduate Academy, Jena, Germany

Projects

Demand-Oriented Innovation Policy

Publications

Monographs (Authorship)

2012

Wiederhold, Simon, The Role of Public Procurement in Innovation: Theory and Empirical Evidence, ifo Beitr�ge zur Wirtschaftsforschung 43, ifo Institut, M�nchen, 2012 ( Abstract )

Working Papers

2011

Wiederhold, Simon (with Gerhard Riener), "Costs of Control in Groups", Ifo Working Paper Nr. 113, 2011 ( Abstract / Download / Previous version also available as: "On Social Identity, Subjective Expectations, and the Costs of Control", Jena Economic Research Papers # 2011-35 )

Wiederhold, Simon (with Viktor Slavtchev), "The Impact of Government Procurement Composition on Private R&D Activities", Jena Economic Research Papers # 2011-36, 2011

2010

Wiederhold, Simon (with Ljubica Nedelkoska), "Technology, Outsourcing, and the Demand for Heterogeneous Labor: Exploring the Industry Dimension", Jena Economic Research Papers # 2010-52, 2010

2009

Wiederhold, Simon, "Government Spending Composition in a Simple Model of Schumpeterian Growth", Jena Economic Research Papers # 2009-101, 2009

Presentations at International Conferences

Simon Wiederhold, International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE), 2012, Cast�llon, Spain

Simon Wiederhold, "Die Ordnung der Weltwirtschaft: Lektionen aus der Krise", Verein f�r Socialpolitik, 2011, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Simon Wiederhold, 37th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, EARIE, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

Simon Wiederhold, "Innovation, Organization, Sustainability and Crises", 13th Annual Conference of the International Schumpeter Society, 2010, Aalborg, Denmark

Simon Wiederhold, 9th European Summer School on Industrial Dynamics, ESSID, 2009, Barcelona, Spain

Simon Wiederhold, "Current Challenges in the Global Economy: Prospects and Policy Reforms", 8th European Economics and Finance Society Conference, 2009, Warsaw, Poland

Simon Wiederhold, "Evolution, Behavior and Organizations", 6th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics, EMAEE, 2009, Jena, Germany