Markus Zimmer

(born 06.03.1977, Trier)

Economist

Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Environment and Transportation
Poschingerstraße 5
81679 München

Phone: +49(0)89/9224-1260
Fax: +49(0)89/907795-1260
E-Mail: 101-100-46-111-102-105-115-101-99-64-114-101-109-109-105-122
Website: http://www.cesifo-group.de/zimmer-m

Zimmer Markus

Main focus:

Migration, environmental economics, climate change.
Video lectures, media archive.

Employed at the Ifo Institute since 2004.

Academic Background:

Semester study abroad, Venice International University, Venice, 1999

Semester study abroad, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2000

Diplom-Volkswirt (equiv. M.A. in Economics) University of Munich, 2002

Dr. oec. publ. (equiv. Ph.D. in Economics), University of Munich, 2008
Theme: “Assessing Global Change from a Regional Perspective: An Economic Close-Up of Climate Change and Migration”

Languages:

German, English, French

Professional Experience:

2003	-		Lecturer, Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich
2001	-	2002	Student trainee, Controlling for Network Topologies and IT Infranstructure, Information and Communication Mobile, Siemens AG, Munich
1998	-	2001	Television broadcast technician, Plaza Media GmbH, Ismaning
1997	-	1998	Production Assistant, Television Production, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Public Television), Munich

Projects

GLOWA DANUBE II: Weiterentwicklung des ökonometrischen Regionalmodells RIWU zu einem "tiefen" Akteursmodell (GLOWA DANUBE II: Developing the regional economic model RIWU into a "deep" actors model)

GLOWA DANUBE III: Global Change Szenarien und deren Wirkung auf die Ökonomie und Demographie des oberen Donau Einzugsgebietes (GLOWA Danube III: Global change scenarios and their economic and demographic impact on the upper Danube catchment area)

Publications

Articles in refereed journals

2007

Zimmer, Markus (with Heinrich Ursprung), "Who is the ”Platz-Hirsch“ of the German Economics Profession? A Citation Analysis", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2), 2007, 187-202

Papers in academic volumes

2008

Zimmer, Markus (with Christoph Jessberger), "Global Change Szenarien und deren Wirkung auf die Ökonomie und Demographie des oberen Donau Einzugsgebietes", in: Wolfram Mauser, Sara Stöber (Hrsg.): GLOWA-Danube - Integrative Techniken, Szenarien und Strategien zur Zukunft des Wassers im Einzugsgebiet der Oberen Donau - BMBF GLOWA Project, 2008, 390-443

2007

Zimmer, Markus (with Matthias Egerer), "Weiterentwicklung des Regionalmodells RIWU zu einem “tiefen Akteursmodell”", in: Wolfram Mauser, Ulrich Strasser (Hrsg.): GLOWA-Danube - Integrative Techniken, Szenarien und Strategien zur Zukunft des Wassers im Einzugsgebiet der Oberen Donau - BMBF GLOWA Project, 2007, 391-436

Articles in non-refereed journals

2006

Zimmer, Markus (with Matthias Egerer), "Does Global Change Matter? – The case of Industries in the Upper Danube Catchment Area", Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 98, 2006, 75-88

Working Papers

2009

Zimmer, Markus (with Marc Gronwald), "Differences in the Extraction Patterns of Heterogenous Resource Owners and the Oil Market Share of OPEC", Working Paper, 2009

Zimmer, Markus (with Marc Gronwald), "Explaining the OPEC Capacity Underutilization", Working Paper, 2009

Zimmer, Markus (with Marc Gronwald), "Stochastic Resource Prices and the Green Paradox", Working Paper, 2009

Zimmer, Markus (with Christoph Jessberger), "The Interaction of Global Warming Induced Water-Cycle Changes and Industrial Production – A Scenario Analysis for the Upper Danube River Basin", mimeo, 2009

Teaching

Tutorials:

SoSe 2008 Environmental economics

WiSe 2007 Microeconomics

SoSe 2007 Microeconomics

WiSe 2005 Welfare economics

SoSe 2005 Tax policy

SoSe 2004 Welfare state

WiSe 2003 Microeconomics

SoSe 2003 Macroeconomics

Presentations at International Conferences

Markus Zimmer (with Christoph Jeßberger), "The Interaction of Global Warming Induced Water-Cycle Changes and Industrial Production – A Scenario Analysis for the Upper Danube River Basin", The Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM09), 07 - 10 July 2009, Canberra, Australia

Markus Zimmer (with Christoph Jeßberger), "The Interaction of Global Warming Induced Water-Cycle Changes and Industrial Production – A Scenario Analysis for the Upper Danube River Basin", 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), 24 - 27 June 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Markus Zimmer, Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, 23 Sept. - 26 Sept. 2008, Graz

Markus Zimmer, Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists, 18 - 20 Sept. 2008, Amsterdam

Markus Zimmer, International Institute of Public Finance IIPF Congress, 22 Aug. - 25 Aug. 2008, Maastricht, NL

Markus Zimmer, Far Eastern and South Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, 16 July - 18 July 2008, Singapore, SG

Markus Zimmer, Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, 09 July - 11 July 2008, Wellington, NZ

Markus Zimmer, 15th World Congress of The International Economic Association , 25 June - 29 June 2008, Istanbul, TR

Markus Zimmer, "Network Effects on Domestic Migration in Germany", Seventh Workshop on "Spatial Econometrics and Statistics", 09 - 10 June 2008, Paris