Benutzer:MEA Munich/Axel Börsch-Supan Englisch

Axel Börsch-Supan (born on December 28, 1954 in Darmstadt is a German researcher, economist and director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Germany. He is Professor of Economics and Chair for the Economics of Aging at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Additionally, he is Scientific Coordinator of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and Managing Director of SHARE-ERIC. An important field of his empirical research focuses on socio-political issues that are associated with economic aspects of demographic change and the aging of the population.

MEA Munich/Axel Börsch-Supan Englisch
MEA Munich/Axel Börsch-Supan Englisch MEA Munich/Axel Börsch-Supan Englisch
Name	Axel Börsch-Supan
School tradition	Applied Econometrician
Birth date	December 28, 1954
Birth place	Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Nationality	German
Institution	Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
Fields	Max Planck Society Technical University of Munich
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards	Berlin-Brandenburg, German National and Austrian Academies of Science
Thesis	Housing Demand in the United States and West Germany

Education and career

Axel Börsch-Supan studied mathematics and economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and the University of Bonn, from which he graduated in 1980, receiving his diploma for his thesis titled Stability and step size control for the solution of parabolic partial differential equations with finite difference methods.
In June 1984, he received a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The topic of his dissertation was Housing Demand in the United States and West Germany: A Discrete Choice Analysis under the supervision of Prof. Daniel McFadden.
After working as an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University (1984-1987) and as professor of economic theory at the Technical University of Dortmund (1987-1989), he became professor of macroeconomics and public policy at the University of Mannheim from 1989 until 2011. He founded the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (2001-2011).
In his role as director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, he is heading the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) since 2011. He also coordinates the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
Axel Börsch-Supan is member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) since 1998 as well as member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2000. Since 2015, he is also a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften).
Professor Börsch-Supan is member of the Council of Advisors to the German Economics Ministry (chair 2004-08), was a member of the German federal governments’ Commissions on Pension Reform (2003, 2016) and the Expert Group on Demographic Change, the German federal president’s advisory group on demographic change, and the European Statistics Advisory Committee (ESAC). As public policy adviser, he has consulted to several ministries of the German federal and state governments, the European Commission, the World Bank, the OECD and several foreign governments.

Selected Publications

• Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., Hunkler, C., Kneip, T., Korbmacher, J., Malter, F., Schaan, B., Stuck, S. and Zuber, S., 2013, Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). International Journal of Epidemiology DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt088.
• Börsch-Supan, A., Myths, Scientific Evidence and Economic Policy in an Aging World, 2014, Journal of the Economics of Ageing 1:1.
• Börsch-Supan, A., and Morten Schuth, 2014, Early Retirement, Mental Health and Social Networks, In: David A. Wise (ed.), Discoveries in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Börsch-Supan, A., Klaus Härtl and Alexander Ludwig, 2014, Aging in Europe: Reforms, International Diversification and Behavioral Reactions, American Economic Review, P&P, 104 (5): 1-7.